Gay Weddings are Good for Business

I've talked to a bunch of engaged and married same-sex couples, and LGBT individuals, this week and the overwhelming consensus is that they could care less about the royal wedding.  I watched it this morning out of a "professional obligation" and I love weddings.  It was fun but I was only slightly personally interested.

So what is it about the royal wedding that makes most same-sex couples indifferent?

If you think about it, the royal wedding is all about the fairytale.  The real life prince and princess on a metaphorical pedestal marrying for the whole world to see.  The royal wedding idealizes romance - traditional, heterosexual, romance - and there's not a thing wrong with that...

However, same-sex couples in most places around the world have no legal rights or access to the "fairytale."  In that very basic sense, the royal wedding is not relateable.  Plus, in same-sex weddings, there's no prince and princess (or even such a metaphor) and most of the time, the focus is not on the dress.  In fact, in 12% of lesbian weddings and in almost all gay male weddings, there's no dress at all.   And contrary to popular myth, many gay men don't care about women's fashion, let alone women's wedding gowns!

We've already established in a bunch of other blog posts how gay weddings are different and the overwhelming lack of interest in the royal wedding by LGBT couples validates that.  

But on the other hand, I've had dozens of lesbian brides and bridegrooms ask me how they can get a suit like what Ellen DeGeneres wore to her very relateable wedding...

Have you noticed interest in the royal wedding by LGBT couples or individuals?

   photo by Lara Porzak