Results for: be the change
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My Wife and I Eloped, but I Still Want a Big Wedding One Day
It feels amazing to call Beth my wife. The thought of not being able to marry her because I was too hung up on the perfect wedding, scared me.
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Blush and Bashful: What It’s Like To Be Queer and Engaged
If you’re wondering what some queer people who aren’t me are thinking about when it comes to getting engaged and wedding planning (or not wedding planning), this installment of Blush and Bashful is for you.
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Looking Back at the Queer Episodes of “Say Yes to the Dress”
My understanding of my queerness has evolved significantly since the first lesbian brides appeared on Say Yes to the Dress.
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The Times I Stayed in the Closet While Wedding Planning
Planning a queer wedding isn’t without its complications, especially when you live in a place trying to push LGBTQ folks out of public life.
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Help Me Find a Hot Plus Size Queer Outfit for a Gay Wedding
As a plus sized baddie on a budget, I’ve listed these gay wedding outfit options from least expensive to most expensive. It’s hard to be gay and look cool and not be broke!
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I’m a Queer Bride on a Budget — And I Went to a Bridal Expo
Have you ever heard of a Bridal Expo? I sure hadn’t! And did you know there are wedding-themed porta potties?!
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How To Make Planning Your Queer Wedding HOT
Wedding planning isn’t exactly known for being sexy, but we found a way to make it so.
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Blush and Bashful: You’re a Lesbian and You Want To Buy an Engagement Ring
“There are so many ways to individualize your ring and make it super unique for your relationship and yourself.”
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Some Things I Didn’t Expect When Planning My Lesbian Wedding
2. I’m in not infrequent contact with a woman named Daphne who is renting me a Fancy Portable Toilet Trailer with air conditioning.
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Blush and Bashful: Let’s Talk About Wedding Registries
Your loved ones want to get you the things you want, and they can only do that if you tell them what that is!
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Blush and Bashful: How One Fat Femme Bought Her Dream Wedding Dress
The reason I wanted to write about this experience is explicitly to say to other fat brides that buying a dress does not have to be a negative experience.
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Lesbian Weddings on TV: From Carol and Susan to Bette and Tina
The history of lesbian weddings on TV: parents refusing to attend, wild ’90s hats, untimely deaths, a weed brownie rave on the Eiffel Tower, an impromptu prison wedding, the union of two solo gems and so much more.
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You Need Help: Your Future In-Laws Won’t Come to Your Wedding
It’s obvious you love your fiancé very much, and want to protect them from any agony the world wants to hurl at them. Unfortunately, you mostly can’t. But here’s what you can do instead.
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Love Is Not a Lie: In Sickness and in Health
“Our wedding plans went on hold when I found myself unable to get out of bed.”
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Love That Looks Like Me: Finding My Queer, Non-Binary Place in the Wedding Industry
“And there was Susan and Rachel at the heart of it all, dancing to the band Susan had sworn would play her wedding if she ever got married. As they laughed and moved to the music and worked up such a sweat that their jackets had to come off, I saw a glimpse of the future wedding I hope for, marrying someone I love, the two of us not fitting so strictly into the feminine.”
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You Need Help: You’re Getting Married, Grandma Doesn’t Know
So you’re gay and you’re getting married and, oh yeah, you’ve never come out to your grandmother. Do you invite her? How?
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Love & Canada: Whatever Happens, This Wedding Is Happening
“This week has involved a lot of needing to let go of all the things I can’t have total control over and I’m not good at that and I don’t like it but also maybe that’s okay.”
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Love & Canada: How Is This Wedding In A Week?!?
“Fuck flowers. Fuck everything. We’re ordering about a hundred LED twinkling lights and I’m gonna stick gold washi tape on ’em and sprinkle them everywhere and call it a night.”
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Love & Canada: A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action
“I am still crying an amount that for me is significantly higher than average, what’s up with that?”
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Love & Canada: No Admittance Except On Wedding Business
“There’re only 135 hours or so until I get to Los Angeles and I can feel every single one.”