A Green Centerpeice for the NY Wildlife Conservation Society Party

Preston Bailey designed this GREEN Centerpiece for the NY The Wildlife Conservation Society Gala in NYC.
Its another example of "less is more "to get a dramatic effect with three key ingredients moss and leaves and stems
Great design does not have to be made out of expensive ingredients!

From NY http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com

A Italian Newport Welcome Dinner

Jennifer and Steven came to me in search of the perfect location for their welcome dinner. Some thing to complement the Castle Hill wedding they were planning. So a gourmet Italian take out store turned in to a causal Sicilian get together in Newport last night!

P.S. A Green Idea. We doubled dipped and used the Chianti bottles for decor and sangria!

Event by www.anewportaffaire.com

Spring filed Fiddleheads

Save some cash with your trash!

The great Fats Waller wrote a song call "Get some cash for your trash "What a creative way to reuse old tins and cans for a green garden party.

Simple Elegance

Indulge your guests with elegant linen hemstitched cocktail napkins.
It creates an experience of luxury that throw-away paper napkins just can't equal.
Why rent them when you can buy them???
200 cotten and linen hemstitched cocktail Napkins for $300.00

P.S. They are Reusable so lets make them a Green Wedding option as well!
One could "Re gift "after the Wedding for a post Thank You gift too.
Nancy@anewportaffaire.com
917 355 0689

Dark and Stormy!

The drink not your day!

The Dark and Stormy is Bermuda's favorite cocktail. Made with Black Seal Rum and extra spicy ginger beer, it was brought to Newport in 1906 via the Newport- Bermuda Race. A ocean race for amateur sailors. Now known as the official cocktail for Newport sailors, it can make the perfect signature drink for your Rehearsal Dinner or Clam Bake Wedding. I like to use this as a signature drink at Clam Bake Rehearsal Dinners. Next time you are in town try one or make one at home.

Ingredients
1½ oz Gosling's Black Seal Rum
Ginger Beer
Lime
Method:1½ oz Gosling's Black Seal Rum, top with Barritts ginger beer.
Shake and garnish with lime
Newport Wedding

Green Weddings- Location Location Location

We are told that hosting a wedding that's convenient to the most guests to minimize travel isn't always posible. So When you are planning your Green Wedding in Newport RI you may want to hold your event at a Non for Profit
such as a
Art Gallery, Museum, Organic Farm, Vinyard,
Preservation Society, Botanical Garden or a Historic Site or Vintage Yacht.
With over 125 non for Profits in Newportit wont be hard to pick a cause or a place you believe in. A tent wedding can infuse a natural sensibility and the use of recycling shelter is smart and beautiful.
Take a look at my Blog article
Wedding Venue Philanthropy

Green Weddings- Every thing old is new again!

Green weddings can start off with a family heirloom or an antique find. You may want to ask family members from both sides if they have any old jewelry they are not wearing. Have it melted down and refurbish in to wedding rings, it makes a sentimental merger and acquisition!

Diamonds mined in peaceful Canada or Australia, like those from Brilliant Earth, Cred Jewellery, or Leber Jewelry's Earthwise line
diamonds certified as "conflict-free" under the Kimberley Process, an ongoing effort to reform diamond mining in Africa .
Ask your jeweler questions in Amnesty International's buyer's guide.

Irish - English familys may want to skip the diamond altogether and use a colored stone instead!
Graciously Green Nancy

Graciously Green Weddings

Im Jumping on the Green Wedding Band Wagon
with monthly updates at Newport Weddings.
It seams to be everywhere and it’s a good thing.

As a wedding planner I have worked on all kinds of wedding budgets
from struggling actors in New York City
to the Socity FAmilys in Newport RI.

I was fortunate to be brought up to be green by two thrifty parents that taught me the value of a dollar by doing it your self or simple having trust that I would eventually get my "wants" met .
The some of tools I have to share with you are buying the best quality you can afford on sale, off-season.
Do go to tag sales, antique shows and thrift shops, its like treasure hunting. My sister was able to buy a hand made couture-wedding dress for $75.00 in a hospital thrift shop. Its was a Win Win. For the donating bride, the hopital and my sister.

It’s not where you shop, but the quality you buy.
So think before you buy.
Don’t buy any thing for your wedding you can’t return.
Do think twice about silly wedding industry add ones or a plastic favors that will end up in a landfill.

Take your wedding budget and spend it on what will have the most impact for you, your guests and the environment.
Think Graciously Green