Vegan in a wild and classy way – Candace and Josh celebrated their wedding at the Malibu Nature Preserve in November: flowers were organic, food, wine and the amazing chocolate cake were deliciously vegan, the “guest book” patches will become a quilt, and who found a green Ninja on their pimento napkin (on gold linen) could take home the wrought iron candelabra center piece. A couple who plays Wii together with their friends on their rehearsal dinner will dance together for a long time: especially after a first dance accompanied by Kermit, the frog. The combination of quirky ideas and elegance was fun to work with, refreshing and heart warming. Their guests smiled till it hurt…

As seen on “Style me Pretty”, one of the most stylish blogs about weddings.

October 2008, before the election: Laurie and Susan celebrated their spiritual wedding on a magical Sunday morning at the Inn of the Seventh Ray, while Joe and Gary opted for a mystical dark night, including a sword to cut the cake and knightly vows.

Both events were heart warming, with tears of joy and tears of laughter.
Organic wines and veges, free range chicken and wild caught fish and the organic wedding cakes supported the spirit of change towards a mindful future. But then of course, the election happened and California decided this is not supposed to be. Equal rights for all, where was that promised again?

When we were taking pictures at the Malibu Nature Preserve on the last weekend of September, amazingly mystical clouds moved in and covered the ocean. Overlooking a Native American prayer circle this site gets “greener” every month. Especially with us working there, getting eco-limo in and Michelle’s delicious vegn chocolate cakes…

After training in Los Angeles for several months Mieko and Giancarlo did the Tango in Topanga (June 2008) and they also did the cash – asking everybody to pitch in to pay for their trip to Japan and Italy. The couple combined three wedding trends: 1. train for your first dance, 2. ask for eco-friendly money gifts for your travel fund instead for stuff wrapped into more stuff and 3. experience an adventure wedding. They traveled to their homelands to wed in honor of their lineage. (Calm your conscience with carbon offsetting your travel) Viva! cross culture marriages, you get so much more for your money. Imagine: a Japanese ceremony in a Shinto temple followed by a kekkon hiroen (reception) where you drink Sake and change your Kimono and dresses several times. (which you don’t just use for one day) Then sing Italian love songs to acoustic guitars at your big fat organic Italian wedding in the country side of the Toscana with local wine and artisan cheese..

Dance Instructors like Isabella’s Dance Academy in LA are prepared to train couples within days.

What’s the opposite of green? Posh?

For their August 8, 2008 wedding Martha and Fernando hired Artem Chigvintsev, a celebrity instructor from “So You Can Dance”. The couple showed a dazzling first dance in front of 350 guests in LA’s Millenium Biltmore Hotel. Hot! Hot! Hot! Unfortunately every filet mignon, jumbo prawn, glam ice sculpture, pesticide soaked flower and guests-presenting-gold-tickets-and-getting- chic-lapel-pins- in-return made the planet even hotter.