Tom's Shoes for brides

From head to toe and from choosing your venue to riding off into the sunset – there is no other better place to reduce your carbon footprint for your wedding than with us!  We are the nation’s leader in eco-friendly wedding design.  Not only do we design sustainable, eco-chic events, we are also the design house for the internationally acclaimed magazine Eco-Beautiful Weddings –  The first and only internationally stylish wedding magazine to focus only on stylish green weddings!

This past weekend one of our brides wore these adorable Tom’s Shoes from the ceremony to the time she left the venue!  They are the world’s innovators in cooperatives to give shoes to those in need and help in the fight against blindness.

The bride's mother's veil was used to cover the stems

The bride’s beautiful bouquet was made with sustainable flowers (which I will post later this week) – but her stems were covered in her mother’s veil.  We reused parts of her mom’s veil from her wedding day for an absolutely gorgeous, sentimental and eco touch.

Reclaimed wood trellis

For this bride’s ceremony at the Arts Club of Washington (a club that gives back to local artists) we used our reclaimed wood trellis covered in USA grown greenery and roses – all sustainable farming.

Stage with mandap , cover, aisle runner and flowers by Elegance & Simplicity at Westfields Golf Club

For our other Saturday wedding, we had a sustainable wedding as well.  Helping to reduce the footprint of our clients – we are now adding new items to our list of services based on this wedding we had this past weekend at the Westfields Golf Club.  Although we did not provide this particular stage in-house -we are building a stage for our next bride and can customize stages to be any size and any color.  We created this custom reclaimed + FSC certified wood mandap with curly willow and sustainable flowers locally grown and grown in Canada.  Our in-house seamstress made the stage cover and aisle runner.  We also fabricated the white ottomans just for the bride.  We will be adding benches made from reclaimed and FSC certified wood.  We can customize all cushions to any color.

Keep in mind – we did all of the wedding planning and event design for both of theses weddings this past weekend, all sustainably.  We do that every weekend!  Our staff and services in-house include wedding planners, florists, lighting, carpentry, furniture rentals, structure design, stationery design and calligraphy.  Keeping your driving to a minimum and working with less vendors that descend on your venue the day of the wedding is as green as it gets.  Keeping things local and encouraging your caterer to use sustainable farmers and locally grown produce makes all the difference.

You could be the catalyst for your wedding to make our world a greener place.

Earth Day is every day for us – but we love that the world celebrates the ideas behind community and reducing waste on this day.

Tell us how you are making a difference today!

Katie Martin