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Gay Wedding Confidential: Adventures and Advice from America's #1 Gay Wedding Planner
By: Bernadette Coveney SmitheBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
Imprint: iUniverse.com
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Gay Wedding Confidential: Adventures and Advice from America's #1 Gay Wedding Planner shares compelling stories and practical advice from a professional gay wedding planner that will help gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender couples plan their dream wedding. Bernadette Coveney Smith, owner of the nation's first gay wedding planning firm and a same-sex wedding expert, sprinkles entertaining anecdotes through her guidebook as she leads couples through the complicated process of wedding planning. After examining the differences between gay and straight weddings, Smith provides step-by-step details and timelines that will teach gay couples essential how-tos for planning their wedding: Develop a budget and stick to it. Involve parents and family in the planning process. Choose a wedding party and create a guest list. Implement gay wedding traditions. Decide on a location, menu, and wedding day attire. Gay Wedding Confidential shares a candid and sensible approach that provides the tools that will help gay couples create the wedding of a lifetime. "When it comes to LGBT weddings, Bernadette Coveney-Smith is the authority, having planned hundreds. She is authentic, real and understands the nuances of planning gay and lesbian weddings. This book is a must-read." --Katie Martin, Editor of Eco-Beautiful
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| Title of Family & Relationships eBook: Gay Wedding Confidential: Adventures and Advice from America's #1 Gay Wedding Planner | |
| Release Date: 11-19-2010 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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| SKU | 9781450244046 |
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Gay Wedding Confidential: Adventures and Advice from America's #1 Gay Wedding Planner
Chapter One
Beginnings
My Beginnings
Here's my story: I had my very own gay wedding on July 3, 2009, in downtown Boston on Boston Harbor. I married the love of my life, Jennifer Coveney. She's beautiful! We met about two years prior, at a bar, and it was a love-at-first-sight kind of moment. That day was Jennifer's first day at a new job in Connecticut. She had returned to Boston that night to go out with friends and as fate would have it, I was there.
We had a whirlwind romance as many lesbian couples do, and within nine months, she had quit her job in Connecticut, took another in Boston and moved in with me. Have you heard the second-date joke?
What does a lesbian bring to her second date? A U-Haul!
That was us, almost!
Before Jen moved back to Boston, however, we'd been talking about marriage for a few months and knew that we were completely perfect for each other. We had had conversations about engagement ring styles and I had a sense of what she wanted. I even had an image printed off the Internet of what she liked. One day after I left a client's office in downtown Boston, I decided that, just for kicks, I'd go ring shopping, and get a sense of what the cost might be and how difficult it would be to find the style she liked. (It should be noted that this is one of the parts of planning a wedding I'd never been involved in, since my clients almost always have the ring when I meet them! Prior to my turn, I'd never been ring shopping).
The second store I went to had the setting (which was a hybrid-tension setting) in stock, and the salesman showed me
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