Content about Ethical Weddings

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The next West End Wedding Show is being held on Sunday 28th February 2010 from 12pm - 4pm at Oran Mor, Glasgow.

Feast your senses at the UK's biggest "wedding department store"

From over the moon to the honeymoon, from your dream dress to the world's most romantic resorts - there's nothing quite like the National Wedding Show to help you make your big day everything you've imagined.

It's all laid out for you under one roof - dresses, groomswear, occasionwear, accessories, photography, flowers, honeymoon destinations, venues, cakes and much, much more. And the beauty of it is that you can you can see, touch, taste and try before you buy.

I love going to weddings (as you might imagine!) so I was really excited to be going to the wedding of an old school friend last weekend - especially as all my other school friends were coming along too!

Following on from last week's post about the bridal bouquet, I'd say one of the fun bits about arranging your wedding is the task of making your chosen venue look pretty.

Let your imagination run riot when it comes to centrepieces, place names, table plans and the like; it’s a great opportunity to incorporate some of those eco-friendly and fair trade touches.

Go for vases filled with pebbles and water, or colourful fruit as centrepieces, let shells, pebbles or leaves serve as place names.

Oops! I missed my Newlyweds slot again yesterday - but I had a good excuse! We were filming a short piece about ethical and green weddings for the Sky Channel, Wedding TV.

Phew! It's been a busy couple of weeks - hence the lack of post last week - and it's all, in one way or another, been wedding related!

Last Monday's important engagement was actually not a chore at all - we were celebrating our second wedding anniversary at the excellent Due South restaurant on Brighton seafront. We also celebrated our first wedding anniversary there (oops, getting into a routine already!) but this time round we managed to bag ourselves a window seat looking straight out over the sea...so romantic!

By Nature's Organic and Ethical Wedding List is turning white weddings green. From recycled and fair trade diningware to organic bed and bath linens each product is carefully screened for its eco and social credentials. By Nature will also match 10% of the total amount spent on each wedding list and give this money to the couple's chosen charity.

As we enter with trepidation the 2007 wedding season, you're probably, like us, being faced with a range of wedding gift lists to examine and dissect.

Another week and another inbox full of questions from journalists wanting to get the lowdown on the growing interest in ethical and green weddings.

One of the questions I get asked most of all - and one you may well be asking yourself if you have just come across the concept of ethical weddings - is:

"Can one day really make a difference?"