Design & Lifestyle...

I've already mentioned the online craft site Etsy as a resource for recycled, upcycled, and otherwise-eco wedding favors and supplies. But green and DIY wedding planners have been abuzz this week over the launch of Etsy's Handmade Wedding Series, highlighting different crafty weddings and wedding skills. So far on the Earth-friendly front, the series has highlighted a recycled and low-budget wedding, vintage wedding fashions, and eco tips with Meghan from Portovert.

Part of this whole nontraditional wedding planning seems to be looking around at other atypical weddings for ideas to pillage or adapt. I already saw one idea I want to steal from Etsy's profile of the recycled wedding: using Bambu single-use biodegradable place settings for the food, made from sustainable bamboo. One super-amazing fun resource for such wedding porn is Offbeat Bride. (Just beware when you're taking inspiration from many scources of creating what's known as a Frankenwedding--a hodgepodge of too many different elements and themes)

This also marks the return of Etsy's Alchemy feature, where you can post to ask for a specific item you'd like to have custom-made, such as a wedding dress or invites on recycled paper. Alchemy works like eBay's Want It Now feature, only you list your ideal price and then potential crafters bid on the item you want to have made.

And now that you're about to get sucked into both Etsy and Offbeat Bride, good luck getting anything else done ever again.Or at least until your wedding is over.