March 26th, 2012
Veronica's latest custom creation. I stole this image straight from her blog.
I met Veronica when she hired me to coordinate her wedding a couple of years ago. She was the one with the insanely hand-made wedding. It was beautiful. She made her own dress. She made her mother’s dress. She made her bridesmaids’ dresses. So, it was no surprise to me when she went into business making bridal gowns.
I think Veronica’s work is gorgeous. She has seasonal collections of dresses and she also does custom work. (Another client of mine is having Veronica make her gown even as we speak.) She also makes and sells accessories. And she does it all with a sassy and fun attitude.
If you can’t find the dress you are looking for in the bridal boutiques, consider looking Veronica up. She may be able to fix you up with a dream dress.
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March 5th, 2012
Committed 2012 was last Sunday, and it was a successful and very fun afternoon. This was the first year the of the show’s existence, so the fact that a couple hundred guests showed up was very heartening.
What everyone said was that this was much nicer than most bridal shows. It felt more like a party than a trade show.
The Stephanie Rogers Band.
Music was provided by Cage+Aquarium (doing an all-vinyl set) and the Stephanie Rogers Band. There was food provided by several caterers, including FIG, City Provisions, and Pure Kitchen.
Setting up the truffles.
Katherine Anne Confections and Bleeding Heart Bakery provided delicious sweets.
Mignonette's booth.
Models from Mignonette showed off some gorgeous and highly unusual bridal dresses and vintage tuxes.
Collective Resource.
Collective Resource was very successful at composting the entire event. The ratio of compostables to garbage at the end of the event was about 75 to 1, maybe more.
And here was my set-up:
My area.
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February 20th, 2012
A little bit of natural beauty.
I wrote a post a while ago about compostable disposables. I mentioned in that post that the thicker compostable plastic could only be composted in a commercial facility, and that is not always easy to find access to those facilities. Well, I have found a resource to help eco-minded people solve that problem.
Collective Resource is a business based in Evanston that is committed to helping you have zero-waste events. The owner, Erlene Howard, is tremendously knowledgeable about how to compost, what to compost, and why to compost.
For a fee, Collective Resource will bring compost buckets to you for your event (or to your home for household composting), help you figure out what goes into the buckets, and pick them up after the event. All food scraps and other compostables are taken to Land and Lakes in Chicago where they become nutrient-rich garden soil.
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January 30th, 2012
I have to tell you about a wedding show I am participating in next month: Committed, An Avant-Garde Wedding Event. It will be on Sunday, February 26, noon to 4:00 p.m. at the Greenhouse Loft, 2545 W. Diversey. You can buy tickets in advance.
Committed is sponsored by the Chicago Green Wedding Alliance, Chicago’s premier group of wedding vendors with a sustainable focus. Not only is this the greenest group of wedding professionals you’re likely to come across, they are also some of the hippest, most creative, most interesting businesses and people in the industry.
There will be caterers like FIG Catering and City Provisions; venues like Logan Square Kitchen; and even unusual vendors such as Collective Resource, a composting company. I’ll be there, naturally. Check out the full list of vendors at the link above.
And don’t expect your standard trade show with rows of look-alike booths. This should be a very fun and unique event. Buy your tickets now!
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