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If you're planning a green (or partially green) wedding, and are stumped about a specific aspect of the planning, I know of a free forum where almost 200 other like-minded brides can help answer your question. Nothing gets me more stoked to plan my wedding than the original Offbeat Bride site, but about 3000 of the blog's readers also participate in an interactive community on ning called the Offbeat Bride Tribe, or the OBT for short.

The OBT has a few groups of interest to green brides. The main one is Eco Brides, where 176 members have helped each other with planning everything from affordable organic wedding food (a question posed there by yours truly) to affordable eco wedding dresses (yes, it's a theme, this stuff ain't cheap) to how to explain the green theme to your guests, to debating silk vs real flowers. Another group, Wedding Swap. enables OBT members to give away or claim wedding supplies, decorations, or dresses. One photographer just starting out is donating her services via that group to fill up her portfolio. Some brides use Wedding Swap to give away or sell their dresses at a significant discount, so that's another potential dress source. Another group that may be of interest to green brides is the Outdoor Weddings, and then there are dozens more fun groups for tattooed brides, brides in combat boots, witchy brides, and so on.