Bloggers
Derek Noel | Posts
Name/Blogger Name: Derek Noel/D*Rock
Partner’s name: Joey Norton Love
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Date of wedding: October, 16th 2010
Venue/Location of Wedding: Southern California Backyard/Beach
About me:
I’m a former actor/singer turned Baker from San Francisco. I’m an alumni of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, While I was living and studying in NYC In 2005 I met the love of my life randomly through an accidental myspace mishap. Now we live in Las Vegas, NV I work for a local chocolate company and run a little freelance cupcake business out of my home and he writes a wonderful pop culture and music blog called “Joey Love Is Revenge” and works at a bookstore. We love pop culture, art, movies, and being silly and ridiculous
Emily Kate | Posts
Name/Blogger Name: Emily Kate
Location: Chicago, IL
Date of wedding: July 21, 2009 and Feb 27, 2010
Venue: the first one at the Boston City Hall, and the second in Naples, Fl
About me: About me is always so hard! I’m a librarian by day and, oh, sadly a librarian by night, too. Oh well. I’d also say that I’m kind of an amalgam between Bob the Builder and Susie Q. Homemaker (my friends say Martha Stewart, but they haven’t seen how painfully inattentive to detail I can be). I bake, I sew, I knock down walls—whatever seems like a good idea at the time. I’m from the same town as Cindy Crawford, in northern Illinois, but now I live in Chicago with my sweetie, who spends her time trying to understand the little old ladies yelling at her in Russion (and Bosnian!) and learning to cope with the unforgiving climate I talked her into leaving Florida for. We just bought a house and are spending lots of time fixing it up, trying to see our friends, and choosing between the thousands of fascinating distractions that our city provides for us every day.
Alyia | Posts
Name/Blogger Name: Alyia
Partner’s name: Stacy
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Date of wedding: 10/16/10
Venue/Location of Wedding: Ceremony at Westinghouse Memorial Pond in Schenley Park, reception at the Schenley Park Visitor Center/Café.
About me: I work in the nonprofit sector at an organization that combines environmental work with youth development, and I’m constantly reading, starting knitting/crochet projects I don’t finish, and trying to convince people that being a “cat mom” is good practice for being a parent. Both my partner and I are lifelong Pittsburghers, and consider ourselves to be about the luckiest people in the world. It’s not that we don’t love other cities and all they have to offer… it’s just that they don’t have the Steelers, or the Penguins, or pierogies, or the rivers, or… well, you get the point. We met while we were in high school at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center’s youth group, and the rest is history. We like tasting wine and beer, enjoying local food, being outside, and taking road trips.
Erica Marie| Posts
Name/Blogger Name: Erica
Partner’s Name: Alex
Date of Weddings: 17 April 2010 & 16 October 2010
Locations: Cornwall, UK (April) & Northern California, USA (October)
About me: A Northern California girl at heart, I moved to London in 2009 to shack up with Alex and make a little home of our rented flat. We met in college at UC Santa Cruz at Kresge College (hella) and after 3 years of crushes (and Alex enjoying watching me walk away), we finally fell in love.
For Alex, it was snuggled up on a couch reading Ruthann Robson to one another; doing the New York Times Monday crossword puzzle; and dancing in the kitchen to Nina Simone. For me, I knew it best when one fall morning I woke up and couldn’t think of anything else but “She’s the one.”
I proposed on Easter Sunday of 2009, underneath the oak tree in her hometown where our initials are carved. Now we’re planning two full-blown, down-right-dancing weddings: one in Cornwall where her family lives, and one in Northern California where my family lives. This must be what bliss feels like.
Jenna Rose| Posts
Blogger Name: Jenna Rose
Location: Dallas, TX
Date of wedding: 8/14/2010 (ceremony) & 8/28/2010 (reception)
Venue/Location of Wedding: 10th century castle in Hondarribia, Spain (ceremony) & a friend’s kick-ass backyard in Dallas, TX (reception)
About me:
I am a writer and wandering artist who grew up in and around New York City. I’ve spent the last five years bouncing around the world, living in Buffalo, London, Florence, Dallas, Los Angeles, and back to Dallas again. Living in the south has taught me two indispensable things: one, anyone born a yankee stays a yankee for life; and two, the proper southern pronunciation of ‘shut the hell up’ is ‘bless your heart’.
Ms.Sparrow| Posts
Name/Blogger Name: Ms. Sparrow
Location: Bennington, VT
Contact info: mssparrow99@gmail.com
Date of wedding: 17 July 2010
Venue/Location of Wedding: Hubbell Homestead
About me: I am trying to plan a carnival themed VT wedding from DC,
while at the same time applying to medical school. I love to knit and
draw comics in my free time. I am pretty much a total dork, i.e.
major in college was astrophysics. I love Battlestar, Xena, and
Buffy. And old Star Wars wins over Star Trek any day.
Monica| Posts
Name/Blogger Name: Monica
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Contact info: lesbi.yinzer@gmail.com
Date of wedding: 5/14/10 (legal ceremony in CT) & 5/22/10 (commitment ceremony in Unitarian Universalist church in Pittsburgh)
About me: My fiancée and I recently bought a house and are trying to keep up with the craziness of being first-time homeowners and planning two wedding ceremonies in different states. We’ve been together since March of ’05 and share our home with our three cats. In planning our ceremonies, it seems that finding our perfect balance between tradition and non-tradition is our biggest obstacle. We want it to be unique and different, but at the same time, we want people to know they’ve been to a wedding.
Raven | Posts
Name: Raven
Location: Bay Area, CA
Date of wedding: September 25th, 2010
Venue: The Mountain Terrace in Woodside, CA
About me: Call me Raven, all my friends do.
Sar| Posts
Name/Blogger Name: Sar
Location: Northern New Jersey
Date of wedding: June 26, 2010
Venue/Location of Wedding: Asbury Park, NJ
About me: Im an east coast transplant from the midwest, and a graphic designer by trade. When Im not working I love to read, play video games, and do crafty things like sew and silkscreen. I love The Office, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and I am a huge LOST nerd.
Wasabi | Posts
Name/Blogger Name: Wasabi
Location: New Orleans, LA
Wedding Location: Baltimore, MD
Date of wedding: Spring 2011
Venue: TBD
About me: I am an MBA student, and when I’m not in class, I’m working 9-5 for the same university. I am a lover of wedding planning, a green energy enthusiast, and an economics nerd. My fiancée, Ginger, and I have been together for four years, and sealed our fate like any good lesbian couple would, by moving in together and adopting a pair of cats
