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Gay marriage has arrived and we are the experts.
When same-sex marriage was legalized in Massachusetts in November 2003, Bernadette Coveney Smith had a vision to help gay and lesbian couples create beautiful and meaningful weddings. 14 Stories was the first firm in the nation specializing in planning legal same-sex weddings and the Gay Wedding Institute continues to be a national thought leader, researcher and educator on gay and lesbian weddings.
The company is also a LGBTE-certified business by the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce - and therefore eligible to provide training for your company using your supplier diversity budget.
Bernadette Coveney Smith
An experienced facilitator known for her candid, practical approach, Bernadette envisioned seven years ago starting a wedding planning company for engaged same-sex couples looking to navigate the traditional and accidentally heterosexist wedding industry. Since then, she has planned events for LGBT clients in top venues and has a unique insider perspective on reaching this market. She and her team have produced hundreds of gay and lesbian weddings since 2004, working with couples from 33 U.S. states.
Bernadette and 14 Stories are pioneers in the emerging gay wedding industry. They were the first U.S. company to specialize in planning legal gay weddings. They built the country's first gay wedding planning app for iPhone and Android. They developed the first gay wedding curriculum for wedding professionals and launched the world's first gay wedding certificate program and gay wedding glossary.
Bernadette holds a BS from Boston University and an MBA from New York Institute of Technology. Her expertise has been sought after by the Today Show, National Public Radio, the BBC, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Travel and Leisure and National Public Radio among others.