Today I bring you.... drumroll please.... the first gay male wedding I've ever had on this blog. Please excuse me while I skip around the house a little bit with glee.
Ok, back. So what to say about this wedding? It's been wonderful getting to know Luis of The Mad Gay Wedding a little bit over the past few months. His wedding is beautiful and his words are so wise that they gave me little chills as I read them. I'm also thrilled to share a wedding that is a little more diverse on this blog. When I first asked Luis to write a wedding graduate post, he was worried that a wedding at Disneyland where Mickey and Minnie came to the wedding wasn't 'practical.' Well, yes, it is. Luis and Mike were sane, grounded, and true to themselves, and *that* is what I care the most about. So, on that note, lets hear it for wedding diversity:
Just a few weeks before Mike proposed to me we had started discussing moving in together and becoming domestic partners. We had discussed going down to the county recorder's office and doing the deed, and afterward having a small party at one of our favorite restaurants, an intimate gathering with a few of our close friends. When Michael proposed all that went out the window.
Don't get me wrong, the restaurant idea would have made an amazing and intimate wedding, but this was our chance to have the wedding we had never dreamed of but suddenly wanted so much. We were going to have a big-honking wedding at the happiest place on earth. Michael suggested we have it there since my family loves Disneyland and he claims my mother, my sister and I were ogling a display for Disney Fairy Tale Weddings at Disney's Grand Californian hotel on Mother's Day of last year.
Were we ogling? Probably.
