Chicago Green Wedding Vendors UNITE!

It's official:Step one has been engaged- Pingg invitation sent, facebook event posted, tweet floating out there into the interwebs... Now all we need is to see all the happy green wedding vendors at Logan Square Kitchen on Wednesday the 10th at 6pm.

It's a casual affair, we're hoping everyone is comfortable bringing a dish to share, a bottle (or perhaps 6 little bottles!) of beverage to pass around so we can get to know each other and get to talking about how we can get ourselves organized.

On top of the agenda are the following:

• Establishing a Chicago-area green wedding vendor alliance (I am the daughter of a Union man afterall, this kind of thing comes like second nature to me)

• Name for said Alliance... I'm still pulling for the Green SuperFriends, but I keep getting told that may just be me being a dork.

• Creating a concentrated vendor list and website- to be used both as a tool for other vendors (aka forum pages, etc.) and as a tool for the public to see who's who in the green wedding world

• Discussion about putting on a green wedding show
  

Lynn from Pollen, Zina from LSK, and Tony and I can't wait to get this show on the road!!
See you next week!

Introducing the new "crew"

Keep this in mind: 1/3 of what you throw in your trash is organic material that can be saved from the landfill and turned into lovely dirt-gold.

The worms have arrived.

I'm very happy to announce the addition of 1000 new team members to Spilled Ink Press headquarters. They previously were employed at Urban Worm Girl, where they came highly recommended and have since had a very smooth transition from temporary employment to their full time jobs eating the garbage in our kitchen. As of yesterday they were very happily eating mango rinds, strawberries gone bad and the tops of green peppers and winter squash.


We at Spilled Ink Press have big plans for the Red Wigglers, and their overall introduction of the composting concept. These little guys are stationed in the kitchen and doing a bang up job keeping our personal organic waste from the landfills. As the warmer months, as promised by mother nature, come upon us, we are actively looking into the addition of a larger scale composter to take care of our full-time stationery paper waste- either on or off site, and possibly shared with a few other home-based green businesses (like Lynn from Pollen!)

If you have any questions about placement of your own composting worms, please contact the lovely ladies at Urban Worm Girl: Stephanie, Amber & Angie 773.355.4804 info@urbanwormgirl.com. And most definitely go to their website: www.urbanwormgirl.com and start to feel warm and fuzzy about slimy, wiggly worms. They'll grow on you, I promise.

On another note, keep an eye out for the implementation of Heather Stearns' bill just passed in the Illinois Senate this past August, Senate Bill 99. The new bill creates smarter regulations for commercial composting, making it economically attractive for investors to begin commercial operations. Let the democratic and capitalist games begin!

Indie Wed Lovin.

Boy oh boy, we were feeling the Indie Wed love this weekend.

We laughed, we cried, we ate some sample organic food... it was a fantastic event that we are so excited to have been apart of with our gracious friends at Green Paper Company! It was a beautiful demonstration for us... This is Green Paper Company, they make gorgeous post-consumer waste recycled papers, and hi, we're Spilled Ink Press, we USE their papers to make your lovely invitations! I love balance, symmetry, it's the architect in me.


Tony was pretty excited too because he was able to come out from behind the curtain and not... well, scare anyone. These brides were hip, their fiance's were cool... a big hairy dude chattin them up about their invitations didn't ruffle any retro hair piece feathers in this crowd!

So a quick recap on some of our faves...
First of course the Magnolia Photo booth folks (see our fun pics above!). Who can't resist a funny hat and an anonymous camera... I'm ready for my close up Mr. De Mille.

Lynn from Pollen was great to meet! An organic florist, perfect!

Jennifer from Foodie Registry was super cool, and what a great idea! Register with restaurants and save the oxo spatula and matching tupperware for your mom on Mother's Day!

I love seeing Something Beautiful at shows, Marcie makes fantastic soy candles in vintage tea cups (plus she and her husband come from the land of Architecture as well, we have a lot in common!).

There were just too many vendors to list here... in fact, let's be efficient about this and circle back to all the fabulous people we met in blog posts to come.
Next time, on Spilled Ink Press blog..... Logan Square Kitchen, City Provisions Catering, and much much more!
>Mwah<>