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Speaking of busy ... May is a busy month of celebration and commemoration. Aside from the formal holidays that it marks, this month ushers in graduation and wedding season too. If you are getting married or know someone who is and need some ideas for unique memorable gifts, be sure to visit our newly launched Wedding and Bridal Gift Guide. In keeping with the wedding theme, this week's article offers tips on how to green your wedding from our friends at The Green Bride Guide. Be sure to forward this email to anyone who might be interested in these topics.

Yours in health and prosperity,

Donya

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Splendor in the Grass: 13 Ways to Green Your Wedding

I've written many articles in the past about the different ways you can "green" your lifestyle. From greening your personal care routine and green cleaning your home, to greening your wardrobe and your sleep routine, to greening your holidays. With summer just around the corner it will soon be high season for weddings of all sorts, so to help you green this all-important life-changing event I consulted the experts at the Green Bride Guide and they obligingly sent me their top 13 recommendations for ways to green your wedding.

1. Invitations. Recycled and post-consumer waste paper, tree-free paper, soy inks, and digital correspondence options all offer elegant ways to reduce resource-consumption, waste, and the use of harsh chemicals.
2. Jewelry. Eco-conscious jewelers use recycled stones and metals, and ethically sourced gemstones. Family heirlooms, vintage or antiques, and handmade items are sustainable, often less expensive options.
3. Flowers. Using local, seasonal and organic flowers that are not doused with pesticides, lowers fuel consumption and is often less costly than ordering exotic species. Also consider simpler arrangements, faux flowers, or reusing ceremony flowers at your reception. Read the rest of this article here ...

Dropwise Essentials is a San Francisco-based manufacturer of pure aromatherapy and organic plant-based personal care products that give people a safe and effective way to relieve stress, increase vitality, improve confidence, or manage their emotional state any time or place without popping a pill. Our products are:

• Free of synthetic chemicals and petroleum ingredients
• Made with high quality certified organic oils and pure essential oils sourced from around the world
• Packaged in re-usable or recyclable materials
• Hand-made locally in northern California

Dropwise Essentials was founded by Donya Fahmy, a writer, producer, and consultant whose avid interest in the curative powers of aromatherapy and herbs ultimately led her to design and create the seven products and seventeen unique essential oil blends that make up the current Dropwise product line. She has studied aromatherapy with Carol Schiller - a successful author of several aromatherapy books - and with Dr. Daniel Penoel - a renowned expert in the field of medical aromatherapy.

Dropwise Essentials is a proud member of the Indie Beauty Network (formerly the Handmade Beauty Network), the Green America Business Network (formerly Co-op America), Green Product Alliance, Natural Ingredient Resource Center, and a Friend of PETA. We were among the first companies to join the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics by signing their Compact for Safe Cosmetics - which simply formalizes our existing commitment to formulate products free of known or potentially toxic ingredients.