Friday, August 8, 2008

Hemp Wedding Ideas: Wedding Dresses

What is it about hemp that makes it an eco-friendly product to intergrate into your wedding? Despite being illegal to grow in the United States, industrial hemp has many uses. Paper, textiles, biodegradable plastics, and health food, are a few. Growing hemp also aligns with with the green objectives because hemp requires little to no pesticides, no herbicides, controls erosion of the topsoil, and produces oxygen. If that isn't good enought hemp can be used to replace many potentially harmful products, such as tree paper (the processing of which uses bleaches and other toxic chemicals, and contributes to deforestation), cosmetics, and plastics, most of which are petroleum-based and do not decompose easily.

At The Back Porch Boutique you can "dress like the Earth goddess you are on your special day." Artist Jamie offers affordable, quality, handmade, unique, eco-friendly, hemp wedding dresses. While you are at her website, check out her other creations including hemp head wraps and Grateful Dead holiday stockings.

Conscious Clothing specializes in hemp wedding dresses. Their fabrics are all hemp blends We offer a hemp/silk blend, a hemp/silk floral jacquard, hemp/silk satin, for the pure Vegan bride, a hemp/tencel blend is available. They also have bridesmaids dresses and separates that are available now. You can contact them to request samples of colors and fabrics. Their designs include the Goddess Gown & the Mermaid Gown.

Nature Gear features a Hemp Silk "Forever Love" Wedding Dress. It is made from 4 tones of eco-friendly fabrics Hemp silk/Organic
cotton. The "Andrea" style top with a traditional corset style back. Prices start at a reasonable $600!