Eco-Friendly Wedding Gown for a Green Wedding

If you are planning a green wedding, you have to use eco-friendly materials and practices all the way from sending wedding invitations to printing your wedding photos and mailing your wedding announcement. While you have to pay careful attention to every detail like your wedding flowers, food and wedding favors, you must also adorn eco-friendly wedding attire to mark the spirit of the occasion.

Fortunately, there are many choices today when it comes to shopping for a green wedding gown. Without sacrificing style, elegance and beauty and you can dazzle in an eco-friendly attire.

Eco-friendly wedding gowns are typically made from natural and renewable materials like organic cotton, hemp, bamboo and silk. Hemp and silk blend fabrics are quite popular. Some products carry a 'fair trade' or 'socially responsible' label - this implies that the materials come from farmers and producers who are treated well and given a fair value for their work. Or the profits from the sales go to sustain local farms and small eco-conscious industries.

Many clothing designers offer an insight in to what your eco-friendly gowns can look like. Here are some resourceful websites.

• Design Studio allows you to design your own eco-friendly wedding gown providing your bodice style, skirt size and length, fabrics and colors, all online. You can get a price estimate and a sketch of your wedding gown.

• Threadhead Creations also allows you to customize your eco-friendly wedding gown online to get a price estimate.

• Deborah Lindquist offers environmentally conscious clothing.

• Green Union is another site where you can view many brands of eco-friendly wedding gowns.

• Conscious Clothing offers a line wedding gown s made from silk and silk blend fabrics. They use peace silk, a form of silk that is made without killing silkworms.

• Rene Geneva Designs uses a fair trade policy in procuring the materials and making their wedding gowns.

• Isadora has organic cotton and bamboo based fabrics in their wedding gowns.

Depending on the materials used, eco-friendly wedding downs cost about $400-$1500. Many of these stores also offer eco-friendly gowns for your bridesmaids.