More to Green Wedding venues

Minimalist venues like manufacturing lofts or art galleries are an amazing background for green weddings as they are expressing the wish to be stuff-less. Smack Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn, NY features emerging female artists, which is another green wedding love: to support nature, arts, education, the life confirming goodies of our culture.

A keg of beer rather than a hundreds of little beer bottles has less production needs and in this case also is from a local brewery. All paper used for invite and programs is recycled and printed the eco way.

Congrats to Colleen and Jason. Check out Jason's Mind Body Green Company.
Creative Documentary Photography by JP.

Green Wedding Invitations

Jody and Hunter sent their invites for their fall wedding with Paperless Post and loved how pretty and easy it was. They even tell you when an email address doesn't work anymore, very professional and thought through.

Green Wedding Signs, reclaimed and rustic

Eileen and Ian celebrated their country style wedding at the Orella Ranch in Santa Barbara, a gorgeous nature paradise with ocean views. Not only that, celebrating your best day here means supporting sustainable land use and lifestyle practices.

Ian and his father Paul created rustic-cool wedding signs from reclaimed wood and nearly all other details were natural, re-usable, in short: eco-sweet. Their invites held up to their promise of rustic fun, captured perfectly by photographer Jackie Wonders.  Read more...

Indian Wedding 2010

 One of my favorite photographers, Jihan Abdalla, is becoming an expert in Indian weddings.

Every Indian wedding I coordinated elevated me to a whole new level of vibrancy and happiness. The joy is expressed in overwhelmingly marvellous colors and is very infectious. Jihan Abdalla dove into the feast of Tarun and Malini’s wedding at the Rockleigh Country Club in New Jersey and came back out with a cornucopia of amazing pictures.
Many meaningful and ancient rituals make the ceremonies hours long. Guests are not glued to chairs but entertain themselves during the ceremony with food and drinks and come back to join again.
The trend of American weddings to begin with a welcome reception might have grown out of these easygoing celebrations.

 Pre-parties, ceremony and reception - colors change using the whole painter's palette.

To play with these rich colors, ah the happiness...

 Can life ever be dull again?
 Thank you, Jihan.

Eco Friendly Venue

The Malibu Nature Preserve is one of my favorite venues for couples who love the natural approach and also like to support a Preserve and it's wildlife. Several areas to choose for ceremony and reception and never another wedding around...

I have created all kinds of weddings here from classy elegance to eclectic DIY and vintage beauty.
Call to check it out: 323. 953. 0453
Photos: Jimmy Cheng

Green wedding venues California, San Francisco Special

We work with garden settings, vineyards, historic mansions, eco-friendly homes in the middle of nature and are proud to have friends with arty places. If you are looking for something personal and/or unique we might just know about a venue...
Angelica Weihs Events 323.953.0453
So what's up in San Francisco?
We are on a mission to visit this environmentally evolved city's green venues and will add photos and interviews with the green doers as soon as our busy summer schedule lets us. LA can learn a lot from SF.

Bently Reserve.
A perfect historic venue for the opulent event - but can you be lush in a green way? San Francisco is packed with creative minds, planners, caterers and organic florists so there's a good chance even an "over the top" event won't crash the environment. My own rule No 1: make what you offer re-usable, the best of all options or rent your decor from a local company after checking if they use organic dry cleaning and perhaps travel to their events on bio diesel.
"A Common Green 2011" will show the city's sustainable commerce, progressive technology. Green vendors and caterers will provide fresh ideas, organic drinks, and eco-friendly hors d'oeuvres.
The Fort Mason Center is amazing as it not only has a fire gouse fr weddings but the first and best organic restaurant of the Bay area ready for catering right there: Greens.  We loved the food, the service and the place itself hold 125 guests for seated receptions.

 

(Greens Restaurant, SF)
The San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association (SPUR) opened its brand new, multi-functional venue space, the SPUR Urban Center, in May 2009. A bright and airy venue designed by renowned local architects Pfau Long Architecture, this $18 million facility offers a beautiful space for hosting events of all kinds.

Solage Calistoga offers 89 eco-friendly studio accommodations.

The healthy, thoughtfully balanced resort is gracious and green, indulgent and nourishing, sophisticated and whimsical. Solage takes the natural and makes it spectacular with organic design, conscientious service and attention to detail.