Lesbian Weddings Archives

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I Don’t Love Gay Marriage but I’m Officiating My Friends’ Gay Wedding

Oh, I love attending weddings. Yes, yes. Flirting with a bridesmaid is like a Top 10 activity for me. But…

Rebecca

Aug 5, 2024

The author (a black woman with short hair) and her wife (a white butch with brown hair) pose against a yellow and green wall on their wedding day with their son.

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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…

Sa’iyda Shabazz

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Feb 14, 2024

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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…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Feb 8, 2024

LESBIAN WEDDINGS

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…

Em Win

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Jan 30, 2024

An open web browser with an screenshot of Bette and Tina's wedding from The L Word: Generation Q on it.

LESBIAN WEDDINGS

How To Make the Website for Your Lesbian Wedding

I put the date on my website homepage no less than three times because apparently…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Jan 18, 2024

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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.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Feb 14, 2024

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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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Feb 8, 2024

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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…

Em Win —

Jan 30, 2024

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You Need Help: Should I Invite My Friends’ Whole Polycule to My Wedding?

You can invite or not invite whoever you want to your wedding.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

May 16, 2023

Blush and Bashful

two white lesbian brides — one with blueish dyed hair and one with red hair — embrace during a gay wedding ceremony

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Blush and Bashful: How To Plan a Lesbian Wedding Ceremony

Somewhere in between thrifting 50 floral print hankies and meeting with the queer chef who is catering my wedding, I realized that I had to actually… figure out what I…

Vanessa —

May 11, 2023

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Blush and Bashful: How To Save Money on Your Lesbian Wedding

There is no right or wrong way to host a wedding — but when you’re thinking about how to save money at your gay wedding, it’s a good idea to…

Vanessa —

Apr 27, 2023

Blush and Bashful

#WEDDING written into the sand on a beach

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Blush and Bashful: Why Am I So Stressed About a Wedding Hashtag?

I learned some weird things about wedding hashtags while fixating on this.

Vanessa —

Apr 13, 2023

Blush and Bashful

two people holding hands at an elopement in beautiful New Zealand, holding bouquets against moody blue skies and next to water

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Blush and Bashful: How to Elope

When you elope it’s fantastically freeing to only focus on yourselves.

Kristen —

Mar 30, 2023

Blush and Bashful

two corsaged sets of hands hold each other in close up during a lesbian wedding.

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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!

Vanessa —

Mar 16, 2023

Blush and Bashful

A collage of seven heart shaped images featuring seven different relationships on a pale pink background. The hearts feature photos of the seven relationships interviewed for this column: Kristen and Kayla, Beth and Sa’iyda, Yasmeen and Clio and their polycule, Adrienne, and Jenny, Evette and Teré, Amanda-Faye and Jo, and Sadie and Nico.

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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…

Vanessa —

Mar 2, 2023

on a desk sits a beaded jewelry box, a black clutch purse, a gray ring tray with assorted rings on it, a polaroid of Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Kristen Arnett on new year's 2023, and a very cool rock, bisected in the middle and sparkly on the inside

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I’m a Cool Rock Lesbian

By which I mean I am a lesbian who likes to look at and hold cool rocks — not that I am a lesbian into cool rock ‘n roll, but…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Feb 19, 2023

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I Don’t Love Gay Marriage but I’m Officiating My Friends’ Gay Wedding

Oh, I love attending weddings. Yes, yes. Flirting with a bridesmaid is like a Top 10 activity for me. But marriage does not fit snugly into my personal definition of queerness.

Rebecca

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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.

Sa’iyda Shabazz —

Feb 14, 2024

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Feb 8, 2024

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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…

Em Win —

Jan 30, 2024

How To Make the Website for Your Lesbian Wedding

I put the date on my website homepage no less than three times because apparently GAYS CAN’T READ.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Jan 18, 2024

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I Don’t Love Gay Marriage but I’m Officiating My Friends’ Gay Wedding

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My Wife and I Eloped, but I Still Want a Big Wedding One Day

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The Times I Stayed in the Closet While Wedding Planning

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Help Me Find a Hot Plus Size Queer Outfit for a Gay Wedding

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How To Make the Website for Your Lesbian Wedding

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My Wife and I Eloped, but I Still Want a Big Wedding One Day

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The Times I Stayed in the Closet While Wedding Planning

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Help Me Find a Hot Plus Size Queer Outfit for a Gay Wedding

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