How wedding vendors can best support LGBTQ+ clients
The wedding planning process can be stressful for LGBTQ+ clients—we have to deal with the continual process and potential trauma of coming out to our prospective wedding vendors on top of actually planning a wedding. To make it easier on LGBTQ+ clients, here are a few things all wedding vendors should be doing.
Always remember that you’re in the business of love
Wedding pros: Remember that your clients’ relationship is paramount.
One of the biggest mistakes wedding photographers make
Wedding vendors—particularly wedding photographers—have a right to their art and promoting their work to attract future clients. But at what cost to their clients?
What trans people want wedding vendors to know
Married trans people weigh in on what they want wedding vendors to know
LGBTQ+ wedding photography: how to pose your couples
One of the most frequently asked questions when working with LGBTQ+ couples is how to pose them. But before you can learn how to pose LGBTQ+ couples, it’s important to understand why this has created a struggle in the minds of many. Through societal teachings and expectations, we’re given binary roles based on our sex assigned at birth. Men are conditioned to be dominant protectors, and women are to take care of the household and be gentle nurturers. Women are to dream about marrying Prince Charming, fantasize about their dream wedding and a white dress, and men stereotypically, are entirely disinterested in weddings.
How to create inclusive wedding contracts
All too often, wedding pros put a line for the bride’s name and a line for the groom’s name as the clients. But what if there are two brides and no groom? Two grooms and no bride? A person who identifies as a bride and another who doesn’t identify with either term? Two people who just want to get married but aren’t into those labels?
9 summer wedding mistakes to avoid
Summer weddings are here and with them come an explosion of heat, rain and those pesky mosquitoes. Are you the lucky couple with a summer wedding? Are you the company hosting a summer shindig? Follow these tips to avoid summer wedding mistakes and enhance your guest experience.
Who is the LGBTQ+ community?
People are born LGBTQ+. Honestly, Lady Gaga was right. It is not a choice to be LGBTQ+. It is a choice, however, to live in our truth.
Ethical wedding ideas
Are you planning an ethical wedding, or interested in breaking from the herd and doing things your way?
A glossary for LGBTQ weddings, same-sex weddings, lesbian weddings, gay weddings, queer weddings
A glossary for LGBTQ weddings, same-sex weddings, lesbian weddings, gay weddings, queer weddings – for couples, for vendors, for family and friends
Red and gray styled wedding at Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco
Red and gray styled wedding at Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco
5 essential wedding planning tasks for your LGBTQ wedding
5 wedding planning tasks you should add to your checklist right now
Wedding Flowers by Season
We caught up with Caroline Bailly, owner of NYC-based floral and event design company L’Atelier Rouge, to get her take on some of her favorite wedding flowers for each season. Here’s…
Luxury Wedding Jewelry from Colin Cowie
Colin Cowie’s new estate jewelry collection makes for instant family heirlooms.
New Orleans Wedding Band: Nola Dukes Band
From New Orleans to Baton Rouge to surrounding areas, the Nola Dukes Band rocks the house at wedding receptions.
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