Gay & Lesbian Weddings Archives - Bridal Gowns in Discount

The Final One-Year Anniversary Package for Same-Sex Couples

May

28

2016

To help give these couples the celebrations they deserve, The Condado Plaza Hilton, in Puerto Rico, partnered with Andrew Collins (LGBT travel expert and author of About.com‘s gay travel site, GayTravel.About.com) to curate the most incredible LGBT anniversary package ever: the “Coloring San Juan With Love” package. Here’s why you should take advantage of this ...

How Has Marriage Changed Life For Gay People?

May

4

2016

Activist and writer Peter McGraith married his partner David in the first ceremony conducted under the Marriage Act 2013 covering most of the UK. Here, he asks what effect it’s had on gay and lesbian couples – and on marriage itself. Do we care if marriage equality contributes to the demise of gay culture, identity ...

Watch My Lesbian Girlfriend Marry A Gay Man

May

4

2016

Probably the headline sounds like clickbait. Thing is, it’s true. On last Friday night at Melbourne venue Max Watt’s, I stood on stage and surveyed a very odd scene. My partner, the comedian Zoë Coombs Marr, and her father, ambling up the aisle as she scrambled into an ill-fitting white gown; her mother sitting beside ...

5 Wedding Traditions With Surprisingly Feminist

Mar

25

2016

As the number of couples getting hitched continues to dwindle, marriage can occasionally seem like an archaic institution — particularly given how many traditions are rooted in old-fashioned gender norms. But, feminist wedding traditions do exist, and they might be more common than you’d deem. Part of this is thanks to how marriage has evolved ...

Utah Gay Wedding Expo Connected Couples

Mar

18

2016

Jason Langlois and Will Bladh are in the early stages of making plans for their summer 2017 wedding, and they don’t expect their excitement pierced by the pain of being rejected by a venue, florist and photographer who have a legal right in Utah to refuse to serve a gay couple. That’s why they took ...

Lesbian Wedding Writers To Hit Broadway

Feb

22

2016

David Hein and Irene Carl Sankoff, the married couple that wrote My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding are headed to Broadway with their newest musical. Come From Away will open on Broadway in 2017 after it completes pre-Broadway runs in D.C. and Toronto. According to the true story of Gander, Newfoundland, the tiny town whose ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Lesbian Daughter Wedding

Feb

3

2016

What calls for special attention is that Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daugther, Reverend Mpho Tutu has married her fiancée in a private ceremony in Oegstgeest a town and municipality in the province of South Holland in western Netherlands. Mpho’s partner, Furth is a South African HIV/AIDS activist, who has also campaign against poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia ...

Perhaps A Same-sex Marriage Will Make The Couple Sent To Jail

Feb

3

2016

While Sanjida left home to study, she met the person she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. The only problem — her partner was another woman, and same-sex marriage is not accepted in Bangladesh. Currently, in place of finding happiness, she’s facing criminal charges. In January 2013, Sanjida, a 20-year-old Bengali Muslim ...

Christian Couple Reject To Pay $13,000 fine For Host Lesbian Wedding

Feb

1

2016

A devout Christian couple who were fined $13,000 for turning down to host a lesbian wedding at the farm where they live and work did indeed break the law, a New York court ruled. Cynthia and Robert Gifford have been battling Melisa and Jennifer McCarthy ever since the women contacted them in 2012 asking to ...

Chinese Court Accepts Gay Man’s Lawsuit Demanding Marriage Rights

Jan

8

2016

Chinese media say it’s the first legal case to focus on the rights of same-sex couples to marry: a gay man has sued a civil affairs bureau in Hunan province for rejecting his try to register his marriage to his boyfriend. A court accepted the case Tuesday. The local court in Changsha, in central China’s ...