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TomBride™ on July 21st, 2009

“I do have to say that the biggest difference I notice was the overwelming joy in your guests faces, much more than the day to day weddings I’ve done.”

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TomBride™ on July 21st, 2009

Almost every vendor we interviewed assumed my wife was the bride and I was the “friend.” Who’s the groom? They inevitably ask her. “I am,” I’d chime in.

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TomBride™ on May 21st, 2009

Finally got around to uploading a video clip of our first dance. You can see us next on Dancing with the Stars. ;)

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TomBride™ on May 14th, 2009

There was no question to us who would lead in our first dance song. Galit has the brains and I have the feet. Neither of us are good at giving up control, but in our relationship dynamic it made sense for me to lead and Galit to follow. Since we had no real clue how to slow dance together (bumping and grinding for the first dance having been dismissed as a bit tacky), so we both had to learn how to dance.

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TomBride™ on May 14th, 2009

Do the parent dances at a gay wedding have to change because the couple are two women or two men? We thought a lot about the traditional father/daughter and mother/son dances typical at weddings.

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TomBride™ on April 29th, 2009

When you’re planning your wedding, the fantastic part about being lesbian or gay is the freedom to choose which traditions you’ll keep, and how you’ll keep them. If you choose to have a first dance, the possibilities are truly endless. Who will lead, who will follow, or will both? Will your song be a romantic old torch song, an indie alternative, or a little bit of opera?

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TomBride™ on April 21st, 2009

We went through many songs. You’re the One that I Want was the top contender. ( I love a Grease throwback. I once made a short film called The Grease Stalker about a crazy Greaser who used the film’s soundtrack as he stalked a woman to cut her hair.)

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