Gay Wedding Experts Announce Gay Wedding Seminar Scheduled for January 24, 2006 in Boston

Boston, MA – With gay wedding bells beginning to ring for the 2006 season, two pioneering companies, which specialize in gay weddings, It’s About Time and GayWeddings.com, are offering a fun and informative seminar, designed to help couples tackle tough decisions about beginning the wedding planning process.

“I’m often approached by acquaintances of mine who are thinking about getting married, and ask questions like ‘who proposes to whom?’ and ‘what’s a gay engagement ring like?’ says Bernadette Smith of It’s About Time, the first gay wedding planning firm in Massachusetts, which has coordinated more than twenty weddings since its founding in 2004.

“We get similar questions through our online boutiques for same sex weddings, and even find ourselves answering more broad questions like ‘Where do we even begin?’ says Kathryn Hamm, CEO of Themis, Inc., which owns a network of gay wedding sites including GayWeddings.com, GayWeddingFodder.com, TwoBrides.com and TwoGrooms.com.

“This first-of-its-kind seminar is going to answer the questions we are often asked and will give couples greater peace of mind as they start to plan their weddings,” says Smith.

The introductory seminar will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at The College Club of Boston, located at 44 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston’s Back Bay. It is open to all same sex couples who pre-register and who are considering marriage or a commitment ceremony. To secure a spot in this ground-breaking seminar, couples should contact It’s About Time by January 20, 2006 at info@itsabouttimeweddings.com or 617-733-2965. There is no charge to attend, but the seminar is limited to 10 couples.

Additionally, The Emily Post Institute has donated a copy of the fifth edition of Emily Post’s Wedding Etiquette, which includes a chapter on same sex unions. This book, authored by Peggy Post, great-granddaughter-in-law of the legendary etiquette expert Emily Post, and wedding etiquette expert for InStyle Weddings, will be raffled off to one of the couples who attend the seminar.

“A seminar such as this certainly would have opened my eyes to the journey ahead,” says Jessica Lockwood, a bride-to-be planning her own June 3 wedding. “It’s been difficult even defining a guest list and timelines.”

For additional information, contact:
Bernadette Smith, 617-733-2965
Kathryn Hamm, 202-641-7998


About Gay Weddings 101:
Gay Weddings 101 is a ground-breaking seminar series developed by gay wedding experts Bernadette Smith & Lisette Garcia of It’s About Time and Kathryn Hamm of GayWeddings.com. The first seminar is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at The College Club of Boston, located at 44 Commonwealth Avenue in Boston’s Back Bay. Attendance is free and limited to 10 couples, thus pre-registration by January 20, 2006 is required.

About It’s About Time:
It’s About Time opened its doors in early 2004 to help same sex couples throughout Massachusetts finally get married. It was about time, and the small company – the only one of its kind in the state - coordinated thirteen weddings in 2004. To date, It’s About Time has helped make the day special for over twenty same-sex couples. The company has been featured in the front page of the New York Times Sunday Style Section and was named Boston’s Best by Improper Bostonian Magazine in 2004.

About Themis, Inc.:
In 1999, Gretchen Hamm’s daughter Kathryn married her partner in a commitment ceremony amongst friends and family, inspiring “Mother of a Bride,” Gretchen, to start an online company, TwoBrides.com & TwoGrooms.com, to provide the gay community with the wedding products she hadn’t been able to find for her daughter. The company, which provided the first web sites of their kind on the Internet in 2000, opened a showroom in Arlington, VA and acquired GayWeddings.com in 2005 and is proud of its mission is to provide innovative, practical, and top-quality products and information networking for same-sex and other alternative weddings. TwoBrides.com was recently lauded as "a virtual mother of the bride to lesbians everywhere" and one of this year's "lesbian wedding essentials" by Curve Magazine and publishes frequent weddings news and tips for the GLBT community on its blog, GayWeddingFodder.com.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Bernadette Smith
It’s About Time
617-733-2965
info@itsabouttimeweddings.com
http://www.itsabouttimeweddings.com

Kathryn Hamm
GayWeddings.com / TwoBrides.com / TwoGrooms.com
703-875-3164
202-641-7998
Kathryn@TwoBrides.com
http://www.GayWeddings.com
http://www.TwoBrides.com http://www.TwoGrooms.com
http://www.GayWeddingFodder.com

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