Farms Are For Lovers

Here is a new article by the same woman who wrote How Green Was My Wedding. My husband and I held part of our wedding on a farm and it was wonderful - I am not sure that is the message here but Mia does a good job of documenting this new trend.

Earth Vows

The San Diego Local News recently ran a story by Pat Sherman featuring The Green Bride Guide and Pamela Noxon - who will host the first Green Bridal Show in San Diego on March 8, 2009. To see the text of the article click here.

It's a Nice Day for a Green Wedding

The Advocate, one of my favorite CT papers, ran an article today about green weddings that mentions The Green Bride Guide. It has lots of great ideas - especially for NY and CT brides. Click here to read it.

Love, Honor, Leave No Carbon Footprint

Today's New York Times had a nice article on green honeymoons today. Click here to check it out.

Lisa Rainwater and Andy Mele

Look -another green wedding in the Times! Click here to read the article about how these two environmental activists fell in love.

Lisa Rainwater is the policy director for Riverkeeper and Andy Mele was the executive director of Clearwater. He also wrote a book about the impact of boating on water quality:



Click here to read more about their wedding.

How to Have a Freegan Wedding - Meghan Meyers

One of the things I talk about in my book is the myth that green weddings cost more than conventional weddings - they can actually cost less. In fact - according to Meghan Meyers, of Portovert, you can now have a wedding that costs almost nothing. She just posted two articles on how to have a freegan wedding (without going into the dumpster per se). Check them out!

How to Have a Freegan Wedding - at Portovert.
How to Have a Freegan Wedding - at Wikihow.

Have a green wedding - The Global Warming Survival Guide - TIME

This article came out a few months ago but I think it is quite monumental and deserves a space in the reading room. TIME Magazine listed "Have a Green Wedding" as number 28 in the article "51 Things We Can Do to Save the Environment." Making this list shows that green weddings are truly in vogue and also acknowledges what a significant difference having an eco-conscious can make. Plus - that cake is so cute!

Living Green - Hartford Currant

When Barry and Kate Harrison Muchnick, students at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, married last year, they held the wedding in the Hudson River Valley, between the two families, to minimize carbon emissions. (MARK MIRKO / March 14, 2008)

By STEVE GRANT ■ Courant Staff Writer
March 30, 2008
Living Green

Steve grant was kind enough to include us in an article about green living at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. My husband Barry's biodiesel truck also made it into the picture. :)

To see another picture of that handsome dog click here.

Green Weddings and a Funeral - Five

In Issue Fifteen of Five Magazine (the one with Pearl Jam on the cover pictured above), Debbie Mack featured our wedding in an article called Green Weddings and a Funeral. While this article also has a few inaccuracies (I wore a refashioned dress made of regular silk and donated it Brides Against Breast Cancer after the wedding), it has a rather - well - unique perspective on the issue.

How Green Was My Wedding - NY Times

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Organic wedding bells will ring out in a scenic trail area for Kate Harrison and Barry Muchnick.
Photo credit: C. M. Glover for The New York Time

Last year my husband and I were featured in the New York Times article How Green Was My Wedding. This was one of the first large articles on green weddings and made quite a splash. With the exception of a few minor inaccuracies (e.g. we were married at Catrock - not Castle Rock) Mia Navarro did a very good job of covering the why and how of green weddings. It was great to be able to contribute to her piece.