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Spring 2010 Bridal Shows Going Green

As awareness about environmental and social issues increase, a bride's desire to be greener and eco-friendly at her wedding has also grown. Brides are looking for dresses that are not only eco-friendly, but are beautiful, appealing and flattering. And designers are taking notice.

Going green bridal shows are appearing all across the country. In January 2010, at the Washington Bridal Showcase, one of the keynote speakers was the Founder and CEO of "The Green Bride Guide", a sourcebook and directory for environmentally friendly wedding professionals. On 14 February 2010, Boston is having its first Green Wedding Show (called "Elegantly Green Wedding Showcase" which is being held Hyatt Harborside Logan Airport). Such "going-green" bridal shows are appearing all across the US.

Individual eco-friendly designers such as Shubrah.com, who bring decades of design and business experience from working at companies such as Talbots, have their own bridal trunk shows and participate in the other bridal shows.

Shubrah.com will participate in the Green Wedding Show on February 14th at Hyatt Harborside Hotel in Boston and March 7th Taj Boston Wedding Expo. Shubrah.com's next trunk show will be held on April 10-11, 2010. Details on future trunk shows can be found in her newsletter with sign-up available at www.Shubrah.com or her facebook site. Eco-friendly designers such as Shubrah.com use electronic media and social networking sites to spread their message and do not use paper catalogs as paper is not green. e-Newsletters, and websites have become key to their business.

The trunk shows offer a good opportunity for brides and bridegrooms to meet the designer and to see the different bridal and non-bridal designs offered by the designer. For Shubrah.com, you can also learn more about her designs at her website or read my previous article on her bridal designs for WHDH-TV 7NEWS Boston anchor, Sorboni Banerjee.

Check out other eco-friendly designers such as:
·    Annatarian – Unique dresses from vintage remnant fabrics along with bamboo, organic cotton, peace silk.
·    Isadora Clothing – A fabulous Etsy seller with a versatile organic cotton, bamboo jersey dress that can be worn in multiple ways, with bridesmaid options as well.
·    Leanne Marshall – Eco-star from Project Runway, who designed a short wedding dress from hemp silk, bamboo and cotton.
·    Natural Bridals – Atlanta-based designer whose gowns are glamorous, unique and have a bit of southern charm.

What do environmentally friendly designers offer? Eco-friendly designers such as Shubrah.com use eco-friendly materials created with eco-friendly manufacturing processes and support eco-friendly causes.

Eco-friendly fabrics are fabrics which have not been treated with pesticides or harsh chemicals (such as "Organic Cotton") or are "animal friendly" such certain silks which do not kill the silk worm when harvested. To qualify for "eco-friendly", the fabric should have been created from sustainable, organic, or recycled fabrics and dyes. It includes materials such as organic cotton, peace silk, hemp, bamboo, lyocell and soy, among other fabrics.

Most eco-friendly designers support eco-friendly causes. For example, Singer Bono, along with his wife Ali Hewson and designer Rogan Gregory, launched their Edun brand in 2005, offering organic cotton clothing t-shirts and sweatshirts made in Tunisia and Peru. A significant portion of the profits go back to the communities involved in creating the product.

So have that eco-friendly wedding, look beautiful and be happy that you are contributing to a better tomorrow.

About the Author

Lisa Seth has been involved with the apparel industry for last few years. Organic clothing is an exciting part of the apparel industry and is being promoted because it's our responsibility to use & promote environmental friendly clothing range.

Please rate these baby boy's names?

I also have a please rate baby girls names list open too, if you want to check that out. Like before, my tastes tend to verge on vintage/traditional. Please let me know what you think of my list:

Seth
Cohen
Benjamin
Logan
Flynn
Oscar
Matthew
Andrew
David
Etienne
Remy
Sawyer
Sebastian
Cosmo (just fallen in love with this name in the last week!)

As before, be as brutal as you like. Thanks x
Can I just add that Cosmo, whilst sounding a bit ''out there'' and spacy is actually an old Italian name meaning order/harmony and beauty. So it's actually as old fashioned as a lot of the names on that list. lol
haha I have never watched the OC in my life. I am from the UK and when it was popular was living in Ireland. I chose Seth because I love the meaning 'Chosen one' and Cohen because I think Leonard Cohen is a musical genius! Although I am aware that if you are Jewish it has a higher meaning (Priest I think) Not because of some teeny bopper show! x

Ratings are on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the highest.

Seth - 9 (I welcome him back)
Cohen - 0 (very few surnames are OK)
Benjamin - 2 (but I always love people with this name)
Logan - 1 (a big yawn, ugly sound)
Flynn - 8 (so very cool)
Oscar - 5 (liking it more all the time)
Mathew -5 (Nice but tired of it)
Andrew -4 (Nice but boring)
David - 4 (Again, okay and boring)
Etienne -7 (Love to say it)
Remy - 6 (cool but not enough)
Sawyer - 5 (a former favorite gone stale)
Sebastian - 5 (love it, but it's not user friendly)
Cosmo- 10 (An ultimate name I'd love to hear more)

Cosmo
Seth
Flynn
Etienne
Remy
Seastian, Sawyer, Mathew, Oscar
David, Andrew
Benjamin
Logan
Cohen

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