It's easier than ever to find gay-owned and gay-friendly wedding professionals to help you with your wedding plans. One of the challenges, however, is that not all those people who list themselves in a gay wedding directory website are, in fact, gay friendly. Most of those sites don't actually screen the vendors who are listed...anyone can pay to get up there!
My favorite place to find gay-friendly wedding vendors is on the Gay Wedding Institute site, which actually has a list of everyone who has been trained and certified by me! Now, I don't list the website or company name of those who have graduated from the program because the certification is per person, not per company, and if the person changes jobs, I can't keep track of all that!
Other places are So You're EnGAYged.com and A Vote and a Vow.com, both of which have rigorous screening processes in order to be accepted. And they don't charge any money so yo know if they're accepted, they are very good! On the 14 Stories app, the vendor directory there is connected to So You're EnGAYged.com.
Finally, when you start to look through wedding blogs like the two above and also A Bicycle Built for Two and EquallyWed.com, you can see the professionals that those "Real Wedding" couples have used!
Don't forget to come out right away when you email or call these people - otherwise you might waste your time talking to someone who is not a good fit for you!
photo by Kat Hempel
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