Gay Wedding Confidential: Adventures and Advice from America's #1 Gay Wedding Planner is Bernadette Coveney Smith’s first book and is now available for sale on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. It tells stories through the lens of an actual professional gay wedding planner. Gay Wedding Confidential is written from three angles: As Bernadette guides couples through the process of wedding planning, she will share humorous anecdotes about the weddings she’s planned and the clients she’s worked with plus share personal details about planning her own gay wedding.

The book will emphasize what makes a gay and lesbian wedding different from a straight wedding. Topics include the nuts and bolts of planning; personalizing your wedding ceremony; gay wedding etiquette; wedding design; and evolving gay wedding traditions.

Gay Wedding Confidential is now available for sale online and in select retailers.

Bernadette Coveney Smith's second book, The Business of Gay Weddings: A Guide for Wedding Professionals will be available Winter 2011.

This book is written to educate wedding professionals on the value of the gay wedding market and the differences between a gay and a straight wedding. It includes gay wedding traditions, marketing tips, state and national policies and a unique insider's guide to the mind of engaged, gay and lesbian couples.

Bernadette Coveney Smith is the nation’s leading gay wedding expert. Her firm, 14 Stories, was the first gay wedding planning firm in the United States and she’s been planning legal gay weddings since 2004. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts with her wife Jen.