Use Southern Elegance Furniture For Your Green Wedding

Southern Elegance Furniture is approved as a Green Bride Guide

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Sarasota, FL, 9/6/10 – Southern Elegance Furniture, an American built sustainably harvested bamboo and reclaimed wood furniture manufacturer, has been selected by the Green Bride Guide, the #1 green wedding website, for inclusion in their Green Wedding Directory (www.greenbrideguide.com/directory).

The Green Bride Guide is the most comprehensive and credible green wedding resource online. The Directory is like a Yellow Pages for green weddings that provides a centralized resource of green wedding vendors, searchable by geographic area.

This year, almost 50% of couples are looking to include green elements in their events, and 85% are concerned about greenwashing, the passing off of non-green companies as eco-friendly. To address these concerns, the Green Bride Guides screens all vendors in the directory and displays their green practices in their profiles. Southern Elegance received a 5 leaf rating from the Green Bride Guide.

Southern Elegance Furniture provides the highest quality American made bamboo and reclaimed wood furniture. All of our bamboo furniture is built using sustainably harvested solid bamboo in Sarasota, FL and finished with only organic tung oils and minimal to no VOC stains. Southern Elegance also utilizes “junk lumber”, or lumber set to be thrown away from old building sites. We’re currently using pine planks set to be discarded from an old church in St. Petersburg, FL that our company recovers, refurbishes, and then builds into fine furniture.

“We’re very excited to be a part of this new trend towards green weddings and when we found the Green Bride Guide we knew we found an organization that shared our beliefs and environmental standards”, says Jim Miller, owner of Southern Elegance Furniture.

“When my husband Barry and I were planning our wedding in 2006-07, we were surprised by how little information was available to help us make eco-friendly choices. That’s why I’m excited to be able to offer couple the Green Bride Guide Directory,” said Kate Harrison. “By including vendors like Sothern Elegance Furniture, couples will know that they are working with vetted green vendors who truly value the environment. Since more than 50% of the wedding budget is spent at the local level, the Directory is an essential tool for couples looking to support the local green economy.”

For more information on selling eco-friendly green products, contract furniture inquiries or joining the growing list of Southern Elegance Dealers visit the manufacturer’s website at http://www.southernelegancefurniture.com. Southern Elegance is offering an American made green choice in residential furnishing and commercial furnishing. To view this American bamboo furniture please visit www.DutchCrafters.com or www.JMXBamboo.com or call Tim at 941-809-0994. Help to save our planet by purchasing environmental bamboo furniture!