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Beautiful eco gowns from Conscious Elegance

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Beautiful eco gowns from Conscious Elegance

I was delighted to hear from one of our eco wedding directory businesses about their new collection of eco-friendly wedding dresses. Lori, a third generation dressmaker, is the designer and director of Conscious Elegance who create beautiful eco-friendly wedding dresses and bridal wear.

“All our designs are made to show how fabulous an eco-friendly gown can be” and the 2009 collection doesn’t disappoint, with beautiful hemp/silk gowns that combine style with sustainability.

Conscious Elegance only uses 100% organic cottons and pesticide-free silk, hemp and linen blends to create their wedding dresses. “We know that our dresses look every bit as good as those conventional dresses made overseas. Ours are just better for the world.”

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An Easter wedding project: bird nest favours in vintage tea cups

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Wedding project: bird nest favours in vintage tea cups

April’s creative project is designed around the idea of an Easter wedding. When thinking about ideas for a simple but beautiful Easter wedding project I just knew it needed to centre around mini speckled chocolate eggs.

How to create these bird nest wedding favours

I used ordinary rabbit hay (I have lots of this lying around as I have two cheeky bunnies of my own) that I shaped into a small nest. Then I placed the nest of hay into a pretty vintage tea cup complete with saucer. I had a search around my backgarden and found some moss and a tiny white feather, which I placed in the nest to give it a more natural look. Then I nestled a handful of chocolate mini eggs in the centre.

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Rustic hyacinth centrepiece for a spring wedding

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Rustic hyacinth centrepiece

On Mother’s Day my partner’s mom and stepdad joined us for lunch. For our table I created this simple but beautiful centrepiece using a large jar, a bunch of lilac hyacinth and some structural brown twigs. I love this kind of rustic simplicity, and that it is something you can easily put together yourself, but looks gorgeous, and is inexpensive to create.

This would be ideal for a rustic, spring, country wedding. The combination of lilac, green and dark brown would make a stunning theme to carry subtly throughout the rest of your wedding day.

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The Natural Wedding Company at the Eco Chic Wedding and Home Show 2009

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Eco Chic Wedding and Home Show 2009

Yesterday The Natural Wedding Company had its first official outing at the UK’s first Eco Chic Wedding and Home Show. It was held at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens and featured around 30 businesses. It was a fantastic day and was lovely to meet the other exhibitors and to chat to people who were planning their weddings.

Our stand at the Eco Chic Wedding and Home Show

One of my best friend’s – Maria – came along to help me, and when we finally arrived (we spent twenty minutes and four junctions too many on one motorway as we were chatting too much) we had a great time setting up our table. The flowers on our table were from Blossom florist in Manchester, they were all English grown – a mixture of narcissi, fresia, tulips, greenery and twiggy bits. The lovely snowflakes (very similar to snowdrops) were also from Blossom.

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Winter-meets-spring wedding posies with twigs, tiny pine cones, and dainty daffodils

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Winter meets spring wedding posies

It’s that time of year when the first of the spring flowers start to show, but winter still has a grasp. It’s a hard time of year for seasonal wedding flowers, but we think there’s still inspiration to be found in nature that can be translated into your wedding flowers.

Beautiful but simple to create, these small posies would be ideal for bridesmaids at an early spring wedding. The combination of white, yellow and brown, with hints of green seems to epitomize the end of winter and the start of spring.

Bouquet details

These posies are created from paperwhites, narsissi and a collection of twigs and small pine cones. They are simply tied together with natural raffia for a lovely down-to-earth and rustic feel.

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The Natural Wedding Company blog

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Coming soon great ideas, inspiration and creative tips for planning a more natural, ethical and intimate wedding.

In the meantime, please visit us at The Natural Wedding Company or come and meet us at The Eco Chic Wedding and Home Show on Sunday 8th March. This is the first eco wedding show in the UK and it’s being held at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. For more information please visit http://www.ecochicweddingandhomeshow.com/.

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