DIY: Sew your own accesories (or wedding dress!)

Here's The Workroom in Toronto. Bernina equipped, laser cutters, engravers, etc. They warn "You must know how to sew to use our equipment". But if you don't, then take a class! Buy organic fabric, make your dress, table runners, canopy, napkins -- learn something and have a blast!

Not on the wedding menu: Shark fin soup

A bride we know is making wedding donations (instead of table favours) to
StopSharkFinning.net This is particularly appropriate, as "Shark Fin Soup" is a 'traditional' wedding banquet dish. Every year tens of millions of sharks die a slow death because of finning. Finning is the inhumane practice of hacking off the shark's fins and throwing its still living body back into the sea. The sharks either starve to death, are eaten alive by other fish, or drown (if they are not in constant movement their gills cannot extract oxygen from the water). We commend this usual spotlight on a cruel practice, and recommend you see the film Sharkwater