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This question comes in from Chris Evans: I'm helping a promoter work on their show registration and we have come down to the issue of what to call the participants. Can you please comment for all in the American Wedding Professionals group on this? Obviously, bride and groom don't always apply when filling in a pre-registration form. But person #1 and person #2 seems impersonal and possibly offensive to a traditional bride and groom. What's your suggestion on how to handle this so as to not offend? More
Three years ago, the Gay Wedding Institute partnered on a survey of 900+ married and engaged same-sex couples. That incredibly revealing data has been the bedrock of the
I love getting questions from readers. Jody in Ft Lauderdale sent me the following question this
week: I want to throw a surprise bridal shower for my co-worker Paul who is getting married in April is there a politically correct name for throwing a bridal shower for a groom?...it's a gay wedding.... Please let me know!
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