There's plenty of ridiculous themed straight weddings like rocky horror theme, or all dressing up as super heroes or whatever. I just don't see the point of being a gay wedding planner. Imagine the comments if there was a Straight Wedding Planner service - is this all part of the politically correct society Sisu was on about? You can criticise a company for advertising a service they provide for straight people but not the other way around. What next Gay Home Designers ????
Just one off the TV. It's a small sample, but the results are 100% gay. I therefore qualfied the statement with a "most" to counter the sampling issues.
well i suppose you are right there.... I think 90% of those themed wedding are not done by a professional service as nobody could pay for that ****e.
Gay people choosing to define themselves by their sexuality get on my wick (no pun intended) The Gay Choir, the Gay wedding planner, the Gay bowls team or whatever they choose to apply their gayness to. So you shag the same sex, who the **** cares? What has your sexual preference got to do with your everyday life? Or mine!? Shut the **** up about it, no-one ****ing cares.
Other than the wedding planning service the chosen hotel provide, I don't know anyone who's used a planning service. My lads other halves wanted full control of their weddings, I can't imagine too many young girls having the privilege taken from them, maybe it's what those with money to burn do.
I don't think they realise that... nor do the establishments who make it hard on them. I saw an old simpsons recently when they took bark off shooting deer to knock the gayness out of him... you could never do that today... why? its no longer funny as everyones... so? If you did it you'd be looked at as behind the times not cutting edge. bart would prob have to go in drag and want his winky snipped off to get a giggle even.
exactly. Its really for show when you go ultra expensive and you want them swanning round the receptions so people know you paid for one. It's like you want one perosn to turn up with swatch books upon swatchbooks of napkins, placeholders and so forth so you don't have to dirty oneself talking to the help at said resort. plus the father of the bride made it fashionable too.
**** off... no literally... the thought is not nice. I am already saving for their education and will be lucky to get enough saved in 14 years time for both to go to uni. I think i'll be spending my long term savings account on it as my savings since the day she was born has only got to 6k and with him as well thats 3k each... thats every bonus i got for 4 years.
It's expensive alright. We just did what we could for ours and they both had student loans. We've since given them a few lump sums to help towards the loans and they both have well paid jobs to sort the rest out.
You pay them through Uni and then they decide to buy a house........then get married.........it never ends ffs.
'How I found out my partner was gay' By Sarah Bell Victoria Derbyshire programme please log in to view this image Many gay men and women end up marrying people of the opposite sex. But what is it like for the spouse who eventually finds their marriage breaking down? Recently we told the stories of gay men who had married women. It prompted a strong response from readers who had experienced it from the other side - those whose wives and husbands had come out as gay. "It feels almost homophobic to say anything about them. To me it's not brave to spend 10 or 20 years with someone only to destroy and discard them," says Emma. She found out her husband was gay a year ago. "They may go on and have a wonderful new life while leaving a crushed wife behind. You just feel like your whole life is wasted and there's no closure." One of the most difficult things for many spouses is watching their former partner being celebrated as brave for coming out, but knowing the damage they've left behind. It is an experience to which Carol, 43, can relate. With her former husband now active in gay rights, she received a message calling him an inspiration and a role model. "I was disgusted by this, that someone actually considered him to be both of these things when he had spent our entire relationship lying to both himself and myself. "To me, there is nothing to be proud of - he destroyed our family through his failure to admit that he was in fact gay," she explains. For more information The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast on weekdays between 09:15-11:00 BST on BBC Two and BBC News Channel. Programme website They had married in 2003 and have two children - she says she was "very happy and in love". But there were signs something wasn't right, including gay dating profiles on his computer, which he explained away. In 2009 he said he was bisexual but wanted to be with her. Carol admits she was probably in denial but thought they would find a way through it as he was the man with whom she wanted to spend her life. A year later it came to a head when he came home, said he was gay, and left. "I thought my whole world had fallen apart but then he came back and said let's stay together for the sake of the kids. I didn't know what to do so we lived a lie for two years. To anyone else we looked like a normal happy couple," she said. But it didn't work and they divorced. Carol says the difficulty was the shock - he'd had time to get used to it but for her it happened so quickly. He's now married to a man and she says they get on for the sake of their children. "It took me a long time to get over it, for me it is a trust issue. How can I trust anyone again? I can't compete with other men, I'm a woman, but he should have been truthful from the start. "It would have been easier if it had been a woman - at least he would have loved me in the first place. He says he loved me but I don't believe him." Kevin, 51, had been with his wife for seven years when she asked if he'd mind living in the spare room while she had a female partner. He'd had no idea she was gay. "One day, she came to me and said: 'Is it OK if I had a girlfriend?' "If a partner has an affair with the opposite sex you can be angry but this is so much more complicated. She'd been feeling like this for two years but said nothing," he says. She wanted to remain married, but he couldn't live a lie and they divorced. They haven't spoken since and she now has a female partner. Kevin's life fell apart and he became suicidal. "I wanted to make a go of my marriage, I had everything invested in it, I didn't want to be a failure. I felt a failure as a man and a husband. It was bad, very, very, bad." There are all kinds of reasons why people commit to straight relationships when they are gay - they may not have fully realised their feelings, hope they will go away or fear they will suffer prejudice. Some may have been together for years after marrying at a time when society was less accepting of gay people. Former Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas has talked about how he doesn't believe he would have reached the top in the sport if he had been openly gay. When he came out in 2009 he said he had been in denial about his true feelings and had genuinely been in love with his wife. Both Carol and Kevin have a clear message for those who are in straight marriages but think they may be gay. "You have to be honest with yourself and your partner, especially when kids are involved. Not knowing your own sexuality and taking time to decide hurts everyone involved. Be true to who you are," says Carol. Kevin adds: "The sooner you come out the better for everyone concerned. It might be difficult, it might end a marriage, but the fact is you can't start to repair while they're in the closet but you're nailed to the outside and don't even know it." Six years on, he describes his life as "brilliant" and now supports people going through the same experience. He says people in his position should contact the support group Straight Partners Anonymous. "It will get better. It's been difficult, my life has now taken a completely different path, but is better than I could have ever hoped," he says. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33382824
U.S. clerk jailed for gay marriage defiance; dispute goes on. ASHLAND, Ky. A Kentucky county clerk was jailed on Thursday for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, and a full day of court hearings failed to put an end to her two-month-old legal fight over a U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding same-sex marriage. U.S. District Judge David Bunning found Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis in contempt then elicited a pledge from five of her six deputies to issue the licenses. But attorneys for Davis said she would deny them that authority, raising questions about the validity of any licenses they might issue. The 49-year-old woman, who has emerged as a darling of social conservatives, has refused to issue licenses to any couples, gay or straight, since the U.S. Supreme Court in June ruled that same-sex couples have the right to marry under the U.S. Constitution, citing her beliefs as an Apostolic Christian. "Marriage is a union between one man and one woman," the soft-spoken Davis told the court under questioning by her attorney. Bunning warned the deputies they would be back in court if they refused to resume issuing licenses on Friday. "I would hate to have to come back to Ashland," he said, referring to the court venue. He said it would be up to same-sex couples to decide whether to test the validity of the licenses. Davis, who broke down crying earlier in her testimony, was led away by U.S. marshals after the first hearing, where Bunning held her in contempt and ordered her jailed. She did not attend the subsequent hearings, but communicated through her attorneys. Thursday's proceedings were the culmination of months of legal wrangling and refusals by Davis to abide by a judge's order to do her job, drawing global attention and protests from those both for and against gay marriage rights. Before and during the hearings, about 200 demonstrators gathered outside the Ashland, Kentucky, courthouse, some chanting slogans and many holding signs. As word of the ruling emerged, supporters of same-sex marriage erupted in cheers. Davis was being held at the Carter County Detention Center in Grayson, Kentucky. Her son Nathan, the one deputy who would not agree to issue gay marriage licenses, was not jailed. Related Coverage › Judge in Kentucky gay marriage case keeping politics out of courtroom WHITE HOUSE BACKS JUDGE White House spokesman Josh Earnest on Thursday said it was "appropriate" for a federal judge to resolve the matter. "No public official is above the rule of law, certainly not president of the United States, but neither is the Rowan county clerk," he said. Davis' jailing drew instant criticism from her supporters with Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee tweeting, "Kim Davis in federal custody removes all doubts about the criminalization of Christianity in this country." Christian lobbying group Family Research Council said religious freedom in the United States was under attack. It urged Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear to call for a special session of the state legislature to alter the law to accommodate clerks like Davis. In a statement the governor said a special session was unnecessary and too costly. He said Bunning's decision spoke for itself and the courts were settling the matter, giving access to marriage licenses to Rowan County residents. He said he had no authority to relieve county clerks of their statutory duties by executive order. Another Republican presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, told MSNBC before the ruling that Davis had to abide by the Supreme Court ruling. Related Coverage 'THE WORD OF GOD' Davis told Fox News earlier she was ready to go to jail for her beliefs. “I’ve weighed the cost and I’m prepared to go to jail,” she told Fox in an interview published on Thursday. “This has never been a gay or lesbian issue for me. This is about upholding the word of God.” Apostolic Christian beliefs are rooted in a literal interpretation of the Bible. A Democrat, Davis earns about $80,000 a year in the elected office, according to state officials. In explaining his decision to jail her, Bunning said he did not think a fine would be effective. Davis is being legally represented at no cost by Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based Christian religious advocacy organization. Back in Morehead, Kentucky, phones at the clerk's office rang busy and a sign on the door from Davis said the office was closed for the day as she and her staff appeared in Ashland for the hearing. The sign said the office would reopen on Friday. (Additional reporting by Daniel Bases in New York, Suzannah Gonzales in Chicago and Ayesha Roscoe, Emily Stephenson and Lawrence Hurley in Washington; Writing by Ben Klayman; Editing by Howard Goller) A copy of a new Kentucky marriage certificate application for same-sex couples, with 'First Party' and 'Second Party' replacing 'Bride' and 'Groom', is seen in Toronto September 3, 2015. Reuters/Chris Helgren left 8 of 8 right please log in to view this image http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/03/us-usa-gaymarriage-kentucky-idUSKCN0R13S220150903
Pope's meeting with Kentucky clerk divides public after U.S. visit http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/30/us-usa-pope-kentuckyclerk-idUSKCN0RU0Q820150930
The pope is hilarious, this guy is more marx than marx and talks about equality when the per capita $ of the Papal state is 300k+ The pope talks about equality, yet only he is close enough to talk to god Now he's backing a woman who thinks that her religious beliefs allow her to dictate what other do and what the law allows. #ifthatwasRussia
Wonder if the Pope would back an RC doctor or nurse who refused to administer birth control medicines/procedures even though it's in their ****ing job description?
