Gay Wedding Bells Ring; So Do Cash Registers
Posted on August 24, 2008
Filed Under Gay News Blog
It’s midnight in Los Angeles, and I’m sitting in front of my computer typing away. Two important things happened in my day today and I want to share them with you. One is that I attended my first bona fide gay wedding reception. The second is that Hallmark just unveiled its first line of same-sex wedding cards.
My two friends John and John (yes, that happens more often than you’d think with same-sex couples) were legally married in the afternoon. Their wedding reception started at 8 p.m. with cocktails at The Abbey, L.A.’s biggest and most famous gay bar, which was featured in a reality show recently.
Mind you, it was a Thursday night, and most of us had to work today. But the two mothers of the grooms — one in her 70s and the other in her 80s — were keeping up with the best of them, so I had to go along.
This was not the kind of wedding reception I grew up with in semi-rural Missouri, the kind that took place at the Knights of Columbus Hall with a lame DJ and bad catered food. Nope. Instead, after the cocktails, we boarded one of those red, faux-London double-decker tour buses and proceeded to drive around Los Angeles as we drank Champagne out of Red Bull-sized cans.
We cruised through West Hollywood and stopped at Hollywood and Highland, home of the Kodak Theatre and lots of confused straight tourists. We ended up at the home of an art dealer in the Hollywood Hills and listened to an opera diva sing wedding-themed showtunes as we ate cupcakes and drank more Champagne. I love being gay.
Gay Wedding Bells Ring; So Do Cash Registers
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