Your Eco- and Budget-Friendly Wedding

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Here’s a tip on saving cash and helping the environment when it comes to stocking up on your wedding supplies. RecycledBride.com is an online marketplace for all things wedding, where engaged couples and their friends can buy and sell “new or gently used wedding items.” You can find and sell everything from accessories, bridesmaid dresses, [...]

Sustainable & Economical: Wear-Again Bridesmaid Attire

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Green weddings are all the rage, and with yesterday being Earth Day, there were some great environmentally friendly wedding planning ideas buzzing throughout the wedding blogs. I hope you were inspired for your own wedding planning! You probably already know what a great eco-friendly tool a personal wedding website can be, especially with WedShare’s 100% carbon-neutral [...]

Online DIY Wedding Projects From Jo-Ann

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When it comes to making the most of your wedding budget, a little elbow grease goes a long way. Getting creative and doing it yourself also adds that extra personalization that only handmade details can. Repurposing old furniture into chic, stylish props and accent pieces is very cost-effective, and can reward you with fabulous results. [...]

Coffee Corsets For Your Stylish Bridesmaids

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Looking for the perfect bridesmaids’ gift? Consider a Coffee Corset from the crafty Jenn Gee over at Etsy, a sexy and stylish gift for your coffee drinking bridesmaids, and for yourself! These coffee cup corsets are a great eco-friendly alternative to the plain old wasteful cardboard sleeves, since they are made out of fabric that can be reused over and over [...]

{DIY Project} Eco-Friendly Paper Bag Bouquet Flowers

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These fabulous DIY paper bag flowers are a great eco-friendly bouquet alternative and one of the best ways I’ve seen to recycle your grocery paper bags. This eco-chic bouquet was creatively crafted by wedding planner Jesi Haack from Jesi Haack Weddings, using brown Trader Joe’s grocery bags. Jesi also added a few tissue paper flowers and a minimal number of fresh [...]

Premiere Issue of Eco-Beautiful Weddings Magazine

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Happy Friday everyone! I just wanted to take the time to congratulate the good folks at the Eco-Beautiful Weddings Daily Blog for a beautiful premiere issue of their brand new bridal magazine. Eco-Beautiful Weddings is the first and only eco-friendly, eco-couture international wedding maagzine. The premiere issue is out now now, absolutely free, so don’t miss [...]

Monogrammed Melamine Plates

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These stylish monogrammed melamine plates can be the perfect bridesmaids’ gifts or a great table setting for a personalized bridal shower. Order them in bulk and keep them afterwards for the many future entertainment parties you’ll have after you tie the knot! Add them to your wish list on your wedding website’s registry page and [...]

Stop Motion Wedding Save-the-Dates and Invitations

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In an effort to stand out and do something different for their wedding, couples are getting very creative, and it’s really fun to see what they’re coming up with these days. I’ve seen nearlyweds take the time to make some of the cutest save-the-dates and wedding invitations ever, and one growing trend in this area is [...]