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Jenn and Lee were married on June 26, 2010 in Bowen Island, British Columbia.
About the Couple
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Patti Lew and Ben Wilkinson were married on April 26, 2008 at Nestldown in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
About The Couple:
Patti and Ben met through a mutual friend who correctly thought they’d be perfect for each other. Four years after their first meeting, they were engaged.
The groom is self-employed through his own marketing and brand strategy consulting firm, Blocshop. He also has a background in graphic design, which helped with elements of the wedding such as the save-the-date email, invitations, and favor-labels.
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Dana LaRue (aka The Broke-Ass Bride) and Hunter Stiebel were married on May 24, 2009 in Hollywood, CA.
About the Couple
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Anastasia and Scott were married on August 8, 2009 at their home in Lower East Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia, Canada.
About the Couple
For Anastasia and Scott, getting married at home was an easy decision. They held their wedding at their home "because we love it!" They live by the ocean, and spend their time in their organic garden or at the beach. Their elegant, peaceful ceremony in the home they love reflected their life together.
The Decision to Go Green
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Anna Hirsh and Chris Sachse were married on August 30, 2008 on a friend's farm in Cornelius, Oregon.
About the Couple
Anna and Chris met in Los Angeles, introduced by a mutual friend. Chris had just gotten back from a solo trip to Paris, which, Anna admits, “made him ridiculously cool in my eyes.†They became friends and began dating after about a year. Chris proposed to Anna in Central Park on June 17, 2007. Her engagement ring was a stunning Art Deco emerald ring that Chris’s father had once bought for his mother.
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Paula and Harlan Luxenburg were married on June 1, 2008 in North Carolina.
Paula and Harlan Luxenburg were married at the Highland Lake Inn in North Carolina on June 1, 2008. The Highland Lake Inn is a member of the Green Hotel Association and features a wide variety of eco-friendly practices and services, including using locally grown organic food in their restaurant, from which the reception was catered, and biodegradable cleaners in their rooms.
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Joann and Chris were married in Napa, California in September 2007.
Both Joann and Chris are designers (he is an industrial designer, and she is a graphic designer) and they met at a branding consultancy in Oakland. Joann describes her husband as "a down to earth, laid-back kind of guy from Australia" and herself as "a more intense, punctual city girl from Hong Kong."
Joann included many DIY elements in the event. "I always wanted to plan my own wedding, so we did not hire a wedding planner, and we were eager to do as much as possible ourselves."
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Cathy and Nick were married on August 16, 2008 in Baltimore, MD.
How They Met
Cathy and Nick both work with the mentally ill: Nick is a clinical social worker and Cathy is a psychologist. The two were set up on a blind date by friends and immediately clicked. "Our shared passion for social justice was one of the first things that drew us together."
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Jessica and Edward Fichtner were married in Spring 2007 in San Diego.
The couple had the wedding in Balboa Park, the nation's largest urban cultural park, and the reception at the Prado, a historic mansion in San Diego.
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Meghan McKinney and Peter Kostishack were married in Florida on March 15, 2008.
How They Met
Meghan and Peter met in DC while working for a non-profit that helps indigenous peoples and environmental organizations. They dated for three years before getting engaged. As Meghan recalls, "Pete and I were both in Peru for work (we scheduled it to work out that way) and we took a quick vacation to Cusco and Machu Picchu. In Cusco, Pete took me to the place where his parents had lived when they were in Peace Corps there in the 60s. Then he proposed in the same building where his parents were married."
