I recently had the pleasure of working with Kelly from Paper Stories and Indie Wed, Stevi from Avery House, and Lauren from Ryan Alexander Events on an entry for the Inspired Creations Contest sponsored by The Sweetest Occasion and Elizabeth Anne Designs.  Thanks to Room 1520 for providing the location and the model (thanks, Haley!) […]

Pollen is excited to be a part of the Chicago Green Wedding Alliance‘s workshop on green weddings, being held later this month. Entitled “Eco-Chic Weddings: An Event Planners’ Workshop,” the half-day workshop will highlight achievable ways that wedding planners can incorporate green elements into their weddings. Planners will leave the workshop with real, tangible ways […]

Pollen will be displaying again at Indie Wed this year!  I know, I know…  I’m not much of a wedding show person, either.  But this one is different, I swear!  Indie Wed features more non-traditional wedding vendors.  Ones that lean toward the modern, the edgy, or the eco-friendly. Last year was fantastic, and this year […]

Sure!  I’m happy to recommend caterers, invitation designers, photographers, etc. that I’ve enjoyed working with, and share Pollen’s interest in greener weddings!  Putting together a little directory of other green wedding vendors that I know seemed like a simple idea.  After talking with the folks at Spilled Ink Press, we realized that this simple idea […]

I recently visited with Erika Ball of The Green Tree Studio, an eco-friendly photography studio.  Erika snapped some gorgeous shots of some of the things I was working on that weekend, and I was happy to have the chance to find out more about The Green Tree Studio. In addition to beautiful and eco-friendly photography, […]