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lesbian weddings

YAY, LESBIAN WEDDINGS! We celebrate all identities within the LGBT umbrella, including transgender weddings, gay weddings, and bisexuality, as well nonbinary and non-binary gender identity issues. If you want to talk fashion, darlings, be sure to check out our two brides, two dresses posts (for lesbian weddings where both partners wore gowns), and our bride in pants archive, which features lots of straight brides too, and SO MUCH non-dress wedding attire inspiration.

No shortage of laughs or eclectic art at this Philadelphia wedding

No shortage of laughs or eclectic art at this Philly wedding

Brianne and April’s Philly wedding was held at Material Culture in North Philadelphia, a seriously cool venue. They had full run of it which included the backdrop of woodwork, rugs, and art from all around the world — even an Obama art gallery!

Just wait until you see the emotional first look…

This pro Thriller dance wedding makes us bow down to the spectacle

This Thriller flash mob wedding makes us bow down to the spectacle

Just when you think you’ve seen all you can see with zombie weddings, Racheal and Shannon bring it all back home with their Thriller flash mob wedding in New York. Both old skool and totally new, this zombie wedding has an epic first look, an outdoor ceremony, a bonfire, and professional dancers making sure we know Michael is still king and nothing replaces Thriller.

Let’s take a peek at these two ladies making it official with a zombie slant…

Four weddings and a national park: these two ladies had the first of four(!) weddings

Four weddings and a national park: these two ladies had the first of four(!) weddings

Justine and Shannon traveled all the way from Florida for their national park wedding at Acadia National Park in Maine. This wedding was to be the first of four celebrations, if you can believe it. These celebrations were held in four different states, and Maine started it all off.

A non-possessive ceremony

A poly-friendly and non-possessive ceremony script (with three rings!)

If you are looking to shed some of the possessive wording that usually comes with standard marriage ceremonies, this poly-friendly and non-possessive ceremony script will give you some great inspiration. It’s non-gendered, non-monogamy-friendly, totally usable by LGBTQ couples and cishet couples alike, and sweet as hell. Plus, see how three rings came into play (and the Iron Ring symbolism for Canadian engineers!)

dff alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Love wins at this stunning beach wedding (despite tons of rain!)

Stefanie and Erica planned a stunning beach wedding in Aptos (a small town just north of Santa Cruz known for its amazing beach and beach houses). What they didn’t know was that rain would be the order of the day as well. As in, tons of rain. At one point, waves washed away the ceremony site just hours before the wedding! Here’s what happened…

best quotes from the SCOTUS marriage equality decision to use in your equality-focused ceremony

5 best quotes from the marriage equality decision to use in your ceremony

While we still have so far to go and so many potential obstacles in our path, I wanted to call out some ways to include the recent advances from Obergefell v. Hodges (the SCOTUS marriage equality case in which the Court held that the right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples under the Constitution) into your ceremony. Here are some of my favorite lines to pull into your equality-focused ceremony.