The best and worst thing about planning a wedding for a gay or lesbian couple are all the possibilities. Traditions and conventions exist and you can keep them, throw them out or modify them in the way that best expresses you and your betrothed. However, this is also the biggest challenge. There are already so many moving parts to a wedding that adding multiple options to each part can create headaches as well as a beautifully unique wedding. The most important thing is making sure you put yourselves into the wedding. Each component should be a reflection of who you are as individuals and as a couple. Decide what’s important to you in your lives and bring it into your wedding.
Here’s just one example of what I mean by possibilities. In some Catholic wedding ceremonies, the couple gets only a certain number of readings to pick from. But, when you’re gay and there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell the Catholic Church will let you have a traditional “Catholic wedding ceremony,” you get lots of options. Those options include…wait for it…. Catholic readings as well as any other readings you damn well please.
With so many options, the challenge is sifting through them or creating your own new traditions. Breaking new ground is so stressful! 
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