CarbonFree® Partner
Elegance & Simplicity Wedding & Event Designers, LLC
Description
Elegance & Simplicity considers itself an Eco-Beautiful firm focusing first on people and their desires for beautiful and exquisite weddings. By educating our couples on how to save the environment and reduce waste from the beginning of the planning process, we are changing the way weddings are done. To us, being green is more than just being eco-friendly, it is about reaching out to the local and global community and finding ways to make a difference, one wedding at a time. It is an honor to be a partner with carbonfund.org. Mention carbonfund.org for a free carbon offset on us and a 5% discount! For more information, please visit us at www.eleganceandsimplicity.com.
Commitment
Our commitment starts with our employees and reaches past the vendors to the communities that we have served in.
We do carbon offsetting and give to specific local charities where we do weddings.
We educate our brides about what we are doing both on our website, and in person, we take it further as every wedding is customized.
All of our vendors go through a rigorous questioning which includes how flowers are grown, which pesticides or herbicides are being used, are they veriflora florists, do they pay a fair wage? What do they think a fair wage is? We look seriously into their ethics and quality output.
We run the Washington DC Green Wedding Consortium and encourage wedding vendors to become green and we train other small businesses on how to become green.
We offset our website with carbon offsets as well.
We train our staff on using natural ingredients in floral care as well as how to green their personal lives.
We are always looking for new ways to be greener.
We keep all of our contracts online via efax pdfs.
We rarely print unless absolutely necessary.
We compost.
We reuse boxes and vases.
We provide 6 different wedding services under one roof to help reduce the amount of time wasted finding quality vendors.
We have paid 41pounds.org to reduce the amount of junk mail we receive.
We drive Honda Elements instead of vans and large SUV’s and we are about to add a hybrid to our fleet. By 2011 we plan to have nothing but hybrids.
Partner Quote
“I live in Silver Spring and work in Bethesda and the fact that you are located in Silver Spring sealed the deal for us after we checked the website out!”
