Shannon & Brandon’s comedic Seattle wedding
The Offbeat Bride: Shannon, theater actress/web site manager My Offbeat Partner: Brandon, improv actor/managing director Location & date of wedding: Lake Forest Park Civic Club on Lake Washington in Seattle, WA (we’re not members, anyone can rent it) — 5/4/2008 What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding was completely ours. We ran the thing ourselves […]
Laura & Jim’s vintage gazebo wedding
The Offbeat Bride: Laura, history detective My Offbeat Partner: Jim, army captain Location & date of the wedding: Gazebo in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lovingston, Virginia — July 26, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: When Jim and I made the decision to get married in May, we knew we weren’t going to have the […]
Kristi & John’s Crafty Rainy Day Wedding
The Offbeat Bride: Kristi, pre-school teacher at a German Immersion pre-school and a previous example of why rainy day weddings = gorgeous weddings! My Offbeat Partner: John, IT guy at a middle school Location & date of wedding: Columbia Manor, Minneapolis, Minnesota — May 10th, 2008 What made our wedding offbeat: We really tried to […]
The ethics of a cheap off-shore wedding dress
I think that stealing a wedding dress design and having it made in China (in a place that is probably a sweatshop) is really unethical. It upsets me, as it both screws the original designer (who is probably a creative type who you would want to hang out with) and the workers … all for a dress you will wear once.
Then again, I am not poor, and I can afford to pay the designer direct for some of the dresses I like and I will check that they are not made unethically.
Am I just being a judgmental bitch cos I have the money to “do the right thing” here? Am I assuming that people have not thought about these issue, but actually they have and are fine with it?