Why You Should Attend A Gay Wedding Now!
While you still can.
And no this isn't a political post.
I've been honored to attend two gay weddings this year. And they were both fabulous. I mean, that goes without saying, right? But more than that, they both touched me deeply.
Yes I'm a sucker for weddings and tend to get emotional. Shocker I know.
But witnessing two people profess their love for each other in front of their family, friends and community is a wonderful thing, right? In both instances the couples had been together a long time. One couple had been together for seventeen years! When they first met, gay marriage wasn't even a thing. Much less legal in all 50 states. They had loved each other, in good times and bad, in sickness and in health, and now after all of these years they finally had the ability to get married! It was really wonderful and powerful to see and to be a part of.
Soon gay weddings will sort of disappear and there will just be "weddings". Oh, Tom and Joe met playing flag football three years ago, they got engaged last year, and now they are getting married. Boy meets boy (or girl meets girl!), they start dating, they fall in love, they get married. It's just the way things are. Routine. Normal.
And that's a great thing where young gay couples just assume they can get married. Like it's no big deal. That's such great progress.
But will their weddings have that sense of victory, of justice, of love succeeding against so many odds?
I'm not sure.
So if you get invited to a gay wedding.
Go!
And no this isn't a political post.
I've been honored to attend two gay weddings this year. And they were both fabulous. I mean, that goes without saying, right? But more than that, they both touched me deeply.
Yes I'm a sucker for weddings and tend to get emotional. Shocker I know.
But witnessing two people profess their love for each other in front of their family, friends and community is a wonderful thing, right? In both instances the couples had been together a long time. One couple had been together for seventeen years! When they first met, gay marriage wasn't even a thing. Much less legal in all 50 states. They had loved each other, in good times and bad, in sickness and in health, and now after all of these years they finally had the ability to get married! It was really wonderful and powerful to see and to be a part of.
Soon gay weddings will sort of disappear and there will just be "weddings". Oh, Tom and Joe met playing flag football three years ago, they got engaged last year, and now they are getting married. Boy meets boy (or girl meets girl!), they start dating, they fall in love, they get married. It's just the way things are. Routine. Normal.
And that's a great thing where young gay couples just assume they can get married. Like it's no big deal. That's such great progress.
But will their weddings have that sense of victory, of justice, of love succeeding against so many odds?
I'm not sure.
So if you get invited to a gay wedding.
Go!