Handmade Cake Toppers

  Top Your Cake with Art Etsy has so many great gifts and decor ideas for green weddings.  They have a ton of handmade items. Handmade can be sustainable because...
16 diciembre 2009

The Story behind Invite Site

Invite Site offers DIY packages and printed invitations, cards, programs and thank you's made from recycled paper and tree-free paper.  I recently asked Helen Driscoll of Invitesite to share some...
07 diciembre 2009

Green Wedding Registry from The Knot's Green website

A Re-Share of Some Green Registry Tips I posted a blog on The Knot's green wedding website a few weeks ago about greening your wedding registry.  I think that it's...
02 diciembre 2009

A Bay Area Certified Green Business

Gorgeous and Green Events is a certified green business! It took a few months, well quite a few, mostly because I've been so busy.  But we're certified.  I hope to...
19 noviembre 2009

Sustainable Arrangements for the Green Festival

For the Green Festival this past weekend in San Francisco, I (Gorgeous and Green Events) donated some large arrangements for their speaker stages.  I used all locally grown flowers and...
17 noviembre 2009

More Local FLowers

A chocolate and peach fall wedding I love the fall months when chocolate cosmos are locally available in the Bay Area.  Although they are not really "brown", they are as...
10 noviembre 2009

The Green Festival, San Francisco

Green Weddings and Green People in San Francisco www.greenfestivals.org And no, we're not all eating granola.  I like granola like everyone else, but I definitely don't see myself as "granola"...
09 noviembre 2009

Behind the Scenes

The work that goes into those lovely flowers... Over the summer, things got so busy with green weddings for Gorgeous and Green Events, that I asked my good friend and...
05 noviembre 2009

A green and formal affair

Going Green at the University Club, San Francisco First of all, I want to thank the bride: Kelly, for her openness to green and sustainable options and flexibility in finding...
28 septiembre 2009

Biodegradable Floral Foam?

Non-toxic and Biodegradable Floral Foam, Where are You? I wrote a post a few months ago about the toxins found in floral foam and that it's essentially made of plastic...
05 septiembre 2009

Green Wedding at Kensington Community Center

Eco and Family-Fun Wedding A few weekends ago, Gorgeous and Green Events created the flowers, event design and helped coordinate the day for Meredith and Ben's wedding at the Kensington Community...
04 septiembre 2009

Vintage, Antique and Reused

Reusing Vintage Vases in Weddings and Events I've started collecting vases for Gorgeous and Green customers interested in renting vintage collections of vases for their wedding or event.  It takes...
29 agosto 2009