Green Wedding Venues

Before I go local LA about eco wedding venues, here's one in Nashville, the rustic chic of Cedarwood Weddings in White Creeks.

The 1830′s antebellum farm estate is amazing for fun, contemporary wedding pictures.

 

They schlep their valuable furniture into the gardens for you to cozy up and offer an amazing array of antique decor for rent: silver, vintage crystal, wedding cake stands, rustic crates, birdcages, chandeliers, lanterns....

Photo: One Wed.
What's also green about them? The place is an historic landmark. To restore and keep these memory packed places alive is a good green way to invest our money. I am awaiting a phone call back from them to see how they deal with their landscaping and energy needs. Maybe there's even more green to them.
"Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Whites Creek Historic District is the best representation of an architecturally and historically significant rural community in Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson Country", seems cool for history buffs and architecture lovers and really for any hip romantic with Wanderlust. (If you ship your guests far away and still want to be eco, carbon offsets can be purchased)

Green Wedding Pomanders

Cute idea for green brides: use colorful magazine pages to create your pomanders for rose petal or lavender toss. For additional decor in tents and other structures Brown Fox offers cute Pomander balls. A creative DIY girl will easily figure out how to integrate LED lights to make this a unique lighting option.

Vegetables center pieces for your green wedding

Center pieces with real veggies are amazing for country style weddings, like Blake and Stephen's 500 guest Bel Air wedding on May 30, 2010. As they wanted to be as green as possible the veggies were meant to be used afterwards and were donated. We had the fun of our lives planning and producing their unique event and just had a peek of first pictures from their professional photographers... oh, it will be so cool to post those.
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Green Wedding Ideas

When I see Los Angeles tree trimmers often butchering trees when they touch power lines, I cringe. I read a kids' story about "stompies", trees cut back so much that they suffocate and can't recover, which still sits under my skin. I have stepped out of the car and talked to trimmers, who grin at me in oblivion: it's just a tree ma'am. Not a solution for insensitivity but smart crafty vendors are using cut branches to make candle holders - perfect for rustic weddings.

Reclaim wood when you see it. Wine country people check your wineries: these rustic elegance pieces are made from oak barrel staves.

 

Grape vine trunks looks rather arty and air plants, a unique and so far rarely used idea, are such cool  easy to grow creatures.
 

Eco friendly florist

 

Blake (as in Blake and Stephen, May 30, 2010 in Bel Air) and I visited Dandelion Ranch on Thursday and were smitten by the natural and whimsical beauty of the place. One would think that tires in front of a studio aren't that inviting but Clover Chadvick and her team transform found objects into beautifully unique usables, completely after our hearts.  

 

O joy, we smiled, when we entered into a vintage heaven of metal, wooden and clay containers, bunches of unusual plants, grasses, flowering (or not) twigs, herbs, yeah even weeds can get their place in a caring, creative florists bouquet.

We chose the metal pots and wooden boxes above. The arrangements will be county fair wild,  beautiful, mostly organic and also edible, an ode to Stephen who really doesn't like waste.

My green wedding planner promise: Blake and Stephen's 500 guest movie crowd wedding will have less impact on the environment than 80% of smaller weddings in 2010... just love the challenge.

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Eco cute guest books

California locals: I had been looking as far as to China to find handmade paper guest books for one of my wedding couples, who had fallen in love with Daniela's amazing book. Yesterday I stumbled upon an artsy variation browsing the little gift shop at the Inn of the Seventh Ray in Topanga: Eco-friendly guest books entirely handmade including the cute animal art work on the cover and the paper.

Sweet, sassy, saucy.

Amazing dessert displays are the way to go: eclectic, whimsical, rustic: matched to the theme of the wedding they are the bang at the end (or crescendo in the middle) of the reception.
By Sweet and Saucy.

Driftwood Crafts for Green Weddings

Love these handmade driftwood chalkboards for seating lists and other green wedding announcements.

Rowan's room offers the elegant chalk board version made with vintage frames, whereas Mark and Robbin  from 2 Dogs wood working create these unique rustic frames in an earth friendly way:

 

No harmful additives such as lead in their paint and all wood comes with the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) logo. This logo identifies products which contain wood from well-managed forests certified in accordance with the rules of the Forest Stewardship Council.

Eco Friendly Florist

 

Flower Dec in Los Angeles dives into colors, I love how they spiced the orange fall/winter color with yellow napkins and fuchsia/pink in the center pieces. Owner Rosalee sources eco friendly and local flowers by request. She used all organic flowers last year for one of my weddings at the Adamson house. 30 big eco cool center pieces saved a lot of chemicals and as nothing was flown in, the carbon foot print was ballet dancer light.

Place cards: Gerbias with names on little paper "leaves". Check on other eco florists in our side bar.

green wedding candles

What's so green about soy candles?
One of the eco-loving business ladies, who offer soy candles, Evelyn from ecoeve.com lists the advantages of her candles:

• Soybeans grown and processed in the U.S.A.
• Soy wax burns 40-50% longer than paraffin.
• Clean burning and soot free.
• No petrochemical byproducts
  
• Our packaging is reusable, recyclable, biodegradable

EcoEve also offer signature scents- your own personalized fragrances, how unforgettable is that?