Eileen and Ian got married at the Orella Ranch in Santa Barbara, a gorgeous nature paradise with ocean views. Not only that, celebrating your best day here means supporting sustainable land use and lifestyle practices.
Ian and his father Paul created the rustic-cool wedding signs from reclaimed wood.
Lavender added a beautiful fragrance and the touch of Southern France.
Beautiful re-usable design elements: Chalkboards and wooden furniture.
The California farm theme was beautifully continued with mason jars, lemonades, natural fans, drinks iced in tn buckets, succulent centerpieces and even the little toy cow on wheels wasn’t missing.
Straw bails, already on site, are just perfect for displays or to sit on like at our new private and eco-friendly wedding venue in the romantic hills of Malibu.
Florals were put in scene by GD Design.
The dessert display from “Enjoy Cupcakes” couldn’t have been more ideal.
Natural lighting saved energy, don’t we love perfection?
A beautiful couple, inside and out…
Jackie Wonders did the stunning photography, another treasure.
Viva Polar bears: The English don't like to be lied at by a company that finances disputes of global warming. Eugene Shandu in Daily Green reports: "The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has made a ruling against an ExxonMobil television ad that uses imagery that relates their carbon-emitting power source to wind and solar power and suggests liquefied natural gas (LNG) is super clean."
The discussion is putting big bad Exxon in the news again, the heat is on.
Who will win? The rise of consciousness we hope.
Of course then came BP and spilled, baby, spilled! Following the rig explosion on April 20 BP said about 1,000 barrels of oil a day were leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, an estimate the Coast Guard later raised to 5,000 barrels a day. Oceanographer Ian MacDonald, from Florida State University, told the New York Times that he his analysis showed that the daily spillage could "easily be four or five times" the government's estimate -- or 25,000 barrels.
Angelica Weihs Events 
wedding venue beside the beach is i think the best and looks very romantic “~.