The Green Bride Guide

The eco trend of reduce, reuse and recycle has entered the famously over-the-top wedding space. One bride, Kate L. Harrison, as incorporated her experiences on planning a green wedding into a book, the Green Bride Guide. It's not due out until the start of the 2008 engagement season - the holidays - but she's blogging with plenty of eco wedding advice. My favorite suggestion of hers so far is the time-consuming but beautiful use of small-increment stamps.

High Tech Wedding Ceremony Thousands of Miles Apart

Rev. Christopher Tuttle, author of Questions to Ask Your Wedding Officiant on TheBigDay, recently officiated an unusual wedding.

After a sudden deployment, a couple decided to marry each other while thousands of miles away. The bride was home in Oceanside, California while the groom is stationed in Fallujah, Iraq. The high tech wedding was made possible through the Freedom Calls foundation, which offered the use of the satellite phone.

Watch the new report on this high tech wedding.

How Green Can you Go?

You can go green with your car, your clothes, your energy…and now, the latest trend is going green with your wedding and honeymoon!

This weekend’s New York Times article, with an eye-raisingly heavy emphasis on weddings where one student was in grad school, pointed out various ways that couples are going green.

Among the earth-and-energy savers were the expected serving of locally grown organic foods and use of a vintage dress.

There was also a heaping of the unusual…such as silverware made of potato compounds and asking guests to sign up for renewable energy instead of gifts.

Not unsurprisingly, the couples plan their honeymoons at eco-friendly retreats, like the InterContinental Bora Bora Resort and Thalasso Spa, which helps fuel the AC by pulling up clean, refreshing sea water from 2500 feet below!

For another take on the greening of weddings, check out TXReviews.com.