green-weddings

Most earth-friendly guru's will agree that when it comes to green living one of the very best ways to do it is to recycle, recycle and recycle. You wouldn't think this could be applicable to a wedding dress, no matter how special an old gown might be. All the best will in the world might not be able to do something with your mother's 1960's wedding dress, or even the Flapper gown your great-grandmother wore.

Time can ravage fabrics and render them absolutely useless. But, rather than sighing regretfully and then putting that special family dress aside, take it to someone who specialises in restoring old gowns. In England, that someone is Heirloom Couture.

Even if the dress seems to be beyond repair, Heirloom Couture will take key components and details from the gown you bring them and make something new from them. It doesn't, of course, have to be a family heirloom. Any vintage dress you take to them can have new life breathed into it.

In this age of cheap mass production, it's wonderful to find ways to hold onto, and use, precious things from our past.

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Want to do the environment a favor and still look stunning and stylish on your wedding day? Well look no further than the fabulous designs from Deborah Lindquist.

Made from hemp, silk and recycled fabrics ,such as cashmere, leather, wool, silk, cotton and lace (which is absolutely the best way to go green), these are dresses that even a dedicated fashionista would be happy to wear. Forget about the bland and creased look that eco-friendly clothes often have, this is spot on trendy. There's nothing even vaguely 'flower power' about this sophisticated range.

With prices from around $875 to about $3000, they're not the cheapest wedding gowns around but neither are they ridiculously unaffordable. Apart from the Green Wedding Collection, Deborah Lindquist also has a very funky eco-fashion range.

We love it. All of it.

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Finding new love and getting remarried is wonderful, but many brides going through a second or even third wedding may be concerned about etiquette and what's proper. Specifically, the bride-to-be may wonder about the dress.

Does she go out and buy a new dress? Can she tastefully reuse her old wedding dress, a dress she spent forever researching to get the perfect design and fit? The answers are yes and yes.

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South African designers Julian and Franz Grabe have a way with flowers. And leaves. Plants in general, really. At a show in Johannesburg, they stole the show with their designs, most particularly their "floral couture."

We can't deny that it looks pretty, but this is one of those ideas that's better in fantasy than reality. With about a two-day shelf life before the whole thing starts to wilt and go brown, any alterations had better be done on the spot! And, though the gown reportedly smelled divine, for the bride's sake we hope that bees prefer to steer clear of walking, talking flowers.

Oh, well: for all its practical failings, you can't argue its environmental virtue. After you slip the dress off, just lie it somewhere in your garden. A month after the honeymoon, there'll be nothing left but a few petals in the wind ...

via: The Human Flower Project

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