Wedding ethics v saving dosh April 15, 2008

Was on the Moneysavingexpert’s site yesterday looking at the wedding forums and reading in despair about Brides that are getting their frocks shipped in from China.  Although you only pay about a 10th of UK prices for your dress, I’m not keen on this, for a number of reasons:

 - although the pic of the workers shows a clean, happy environment, can we be sure this isn’t a PR pic/vid?

 - even if the sewing room conditions look nice - we don’t know how much these poor peeps are getting paid (likely, next to nowt)

 - surely sending a picture of a design you want copied infringes copyright somehow?

 - shouldn’t we be supporting our own UK dress designers? 

Anyway, despite this scarey thread there were some other dead useful ones which have given me more ideas.  I found when out running yesterday that a good way to make time pass and get through the route is to contemplate these ideas on table decorations and seasonal flowers…