Yesterday, couples headed to the Brooklyn Community Pride Center for the borough’s first-ever gay wedding expo.
Spotlighting more than 75 vendors in a variety of wedding planning services, from gay-friendly honeymoon packages at the TAG-certified Wishing Well Guesthouse to alternative family lawyers to LGBT-focused event planners such as HiFidelityNY, the center was packed with engaged couples in a wedding planning frenzy.
“I have never directed an event where every vendor had only positive raves to report … and they keep on coming!” commented Daniel Brooks, Expo Director, “It was a true marraige of the Brooklyn retail community with the LGBTQ community and they became amazing partners. Vendors not only gained from the perspective of business and leads, but they also were excited to merge with a group that they normally may not have ever met. The event not only changed business plans, it altered attitudes. You couldn’t ask for anything more rewarding.”
Currently, attendance is said to have been 1,500-2,000, and numbers are still coming in. All proceeds are going to the Brooklyn Community Pride Center for its capital building fund.
“It’s exciting,” one happy couple told Equally Wed while perusing the Betty Brooklyn catering booth. “It’s important that the vendors we work with for our wedding are supportive of gay marriage, and we can be assured that all businesses here are gay-friendly.”
