Your Love Can be Celebrated with These LGBTQIA+ Wedding Ideas

Every love story is special, which is why your wedding should embody your relationship, instincts, and adventures together. Whether your wedding dreams are traditional or bold and unconventional, there is no limit to how you can customize your LGBTQIA+ wedding. To help you make your day special, we have put together a few ideas. 

1. Order of Ceremony Customization

Defy the norm by creating a custom ceremony that resonates with your personal love story. Forbid simple gendered traditions like the bride’s side and groom’s side, instead favor a socio-centric arrangement that promotes socialization. Feel free to walk down the aisle together, have multiple officiants, or even create custom vows that highlight and narrate your love story as a couple. 

2. Customized Wedding Outfits

Fashion is a great medium that can be used to express a person's identity. Dress in a jumpsuit, tuxedo, or a dress, just ensure you are in what feels great. Coordinated but non-matching attire can symbolize individuality while still offering a cohesive look.

3. The Wedding Party No Longer Needs Gender Specific Roles All Those Assigned to Parts of the Wedding Party Such as "Bridesmaids" and "Groomsmen" Will Now be Gender-Neutral. Instead, Invite "The Wedding Party", Made Up of People Closest To You Regardless Of Gender. Allow Yuur Party To Dress In Outfits That match The Theme Yet Showcase Their Personal Style. 

4. The Wedding Rings Symbolize Love And Identity Consider engraving meaningful dates, symbols or fingerprints on the bands. Some couples choose to customize their wedding bands with colorful gemstones or custom designs. Others opt for matching rings with a twist, ensuring individuality and love are both encapsulated. 

5. Non Traditional Venue Options Select a venue that best suits and captures your relationship. It could be an art gallery or botanical garden, even the beach or your favorite cafe. Intimate outdoors settings shift weddings to a more relaxed and romantic vibe while city rooftops offer stunning backdrops for modern ceremonies. 

6. Vendors That Support LGBTQIA+ Weddings Every vendor that provides services for the wedding should be inclusive and support all individuals of the LGBTQ community. Most businesses nowadays market themselves as LGBTQIA friendly. Look for photographers who showcase love in it's truest form and celebrants who acknowledges and celebrates different identities. Your vendor team should ensure that you feel safe and understood.

7. Incorporating Traditions and Rituals Of Any Culture Create traditions that resonate with your culture, heritage, and personal beliefs. Handfasting, sand ceremonies, unity candles, and planting trees are symbolic of unity. Create family traditions that you would like to pass down through generations. 

8. Gender Friendly Celebration For Weddings Adding pronouns to wedding programs, name cards, and signage is an effective way to cultivate inclusiveness. If removing gendered restrooms and using neutral terms throughout invitations and speeches is done, everyone is invited to feel welcomed and respected.

9. Rest Reception and Entertainment As a deviation from the first dances, consider doing joint dance-offs, toasts, or musical performances. Inclusivity can be done by letting the LGBTQIA+ community curate a playlist of their anthems or songs of meaning. Drag shows, poetry performances, or live bands can also be helpful for entertaining during the reception.

10. Send them home with wedding favors that reflect your love story. Custom-made candles, wedding treats themed in rainbow colors, or donation cards for LGBTQIA+ organizations under your wedding's honor can be done. These small, meaningful gifts will let your guests reminisce about your special day for a long time.

As a couple, your wedding should embody how you want to celebrate love and its beautiful forms, the way you want it. By crafting an experience that is meaningful to you both, you are transforming your special day into one full of happiness and memorable moments that feel true to you.