We were very excited to see Ed and Erwin on the cover of Rainbow Wedding Network Magazine!  Ed and Erwin were the recipients of the 1st grant from Wish Upon A Wedding in Washington, DC.  We were happy to be a part of the wedding by providing flowers and supporting such a great organization and lovely couple!

Erwin is suffering from cancer and is currently back in chemotherapy.  We wish both of them all the best and pray for a quick recovery.  To see more details from their wedding and to read the article, click on the cover above.

Tomorrow we finally get to be part of history!  Our 1st legal gay wedding is tomorrow! We have done plenty of commitment ceremonies – but now that gay weddings are legal in Washington, DC – we have been brimming with excitement about Matt & Paul’s wedding. We have a couple more in the fall as well!

We are excited to showcase their engagement photos here today and on Legally Wed DC!

Stay tuned for their wedding photos!

Thanks to Deb Lindsey for providing these beautiful images – taken at Meridian Hills Park in DC!

Congrats Matt & Paul!

Cupcakes were handed out from Hello Cupcake and it was smooth sailing. This particular couple (Jim & Joseph) have waited 17 years to be married.  Truly a bittersweet day for couples.

Since our own Tara was in the DC Agenda and we have been running Legally Wed DC – we have gotten a lot of calls from people in the LGBT community about the excitement that is rising in DC!

We have elopement packages ready to go for couples that are wanting to fly in for the day to get married!  We hae spoken to the courthouse about how to make it as easy as possible.  We will be adding a new page to our  main website as we know several couples will want to fly in from around the United States to make it legal in Washington, DC and we are excited to be a part of it!

Congrats DC – This is YOUR day!

~Cheers!

Katie Martin

Katie – the owner of Elegance & Simplicity – plans to be at the courthouse tomorrow (the first day the law goes live) to just be part of this momentous occasion in DC’s history.  Whether you are an advocate of gay marriage or not, almost everyone in the DC area can agree that this will be a huge boost to the economy in the area and many wedding professionals are chomping at the bit to get a piece of the new pie.

Our  main concern at Elegance & Simplicity is not to make money off same-sex couples anymore than any of our heterosexual couples.  Yes – we are in business to make money like any other wedding professional…but we simply want to provide quality and consistent products and services.  Having spoken to a few out of town couples that wish to get married legally in DC – they are concerned with the waiting period and how it will affect couples coming in from other cities.  It is difficult to travel when you are getting married – but if you are getting married during the week at the courthouse (in a hurry) – it kinda takes the romance out of it! Then – how to deal with the waiting period and possibly not having to get married at the courthouse!

We have spoken to the DC courthouse and have been able to make it easier for our same-sex couples to have a simple elopement here in DC.  We want to to keep the romance in same-sex weddings in DC.  We want to make things easier while making sure love is honored in the process of eloping and getting legally married in DC.

We have developed three very distinctive elopement packages just for same-sex couples coming in from other states to take advantage of this law!  We are honored to have been educated by Bernadette Coveney Smith of 14 Stories to learn the ins and outs of elopements as she has been the leader in same-sex elopements in Boston and beyond!

We are also excited to let our readers know that Katie’s first book, The Everything Mother of the Bride Book, is the first-ever mother of the bride book to even mention anything about same-sex weddings.

We are excited about this new law going into effect and we hope that you can celebrate with us!

Cheers!

There are many blogs and major national websites for same-sex couples to get ideas for their weddings.  However – we run the only DC based blog on how to get married in DC for same-sex weddings.  Legally Wed DC is a blog with no pretenses other than to let same-sex couples know which vendors in the DC area are LGBT-friendly and to blog about them.  The blog will also only showcase DC area LGBT weddings along with giving important information.  Struggling to find the right vendors and knowing the proper channels and procedures should not be what your engagement is about.  While it is a newer blog which will be growing over the next year…it is the only DC based blog that has DC-only based vendors that have experience doing commitment weddings here in DC!  These vendors will come online and blog about the same-sex weddings that they have been a part of and we will start letting couples like you go online and blog about your experience here in DC.  We are excited about Wednesday and the law going into place!

Congratulations!

Come and get Legally Wed in DC!

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