When the Bride Takes a Bride, Businesses Respond

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EAST POINT, Ga. — When the Palladinos were planning their wedding, they found that traditional bridal magazines were all but useless in addressing their particular questions.

Questions like: Where does a woman find a man’s suit that does not make her look like a woman in a man’s suit? Should Kirsten and Maria both walk down the aisle, or was it O.K. for Maria, who sees herself as more masculine, to wait for her bride? At which of the Caribbean resorts in the honeymoon pictorials would two women feel most comfortable holding hands?

“On every level there was something lacking,” said Kirsten Palladino, who took Maria’s surname after their wedding in June 2009. “We didn’t see any couples like us. The language was all he and she, bride and groom, please your man.”

After their honeymoon in St. Martin, they decided to do something about it. This month, they published the second issue of their online same-sex wedding magazine, Equally Wed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/us/16marriage.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

[SocialistLez]

1. I don't see myself getting married but I still like looking at bridal magazines

I can understand why most of them talk about men since the majority of couples getting married these days are different-sex couples.

Good for this couple for starting their own same-sex wedding magazine.