Wedding/Commitment Ceremony Resources

I feel the need to explain how this page got started because this world is so full of people who are looking to make a fast buck. Profit has become the driving force of so many lives even to the extent of taking advantage of others. When someone tries to pass off the drive for profit as a desire to help GLBTs, many GLBTs, who are already so tired of being discriminated against, will flock to them out of gratitude.

As I type this, it's March 26, 2003. I received an email the other day from some site that has wedding resources for all over the country. (I'm not going to mention names— don't want any legal hassles.) All you had to do was to pick a state and a city and they'd bring up a list of sites for you to choose from. Only problem was that the only way to get on the list of sites was to pay them to put you there. So if they had no one listed for your area, it wasn't that there was no one in that area, simply that no one had chosen to pay them to be listed on their site. And it was no small fee either. The cheapest was over $140 for a year.

Now, being a website designer, I realize it takes time to set up the home page initiailly. And some sites require weekly or even daily upkeep. I can appreciate that aspect of it. I also realize that bandwidth isn't free. But more than $140 a year was a bit much, I felt, for spending even half an hour typing your name into a single category in your area. (That's all you got with the cheapest listing. Multiple listings run you about $500 a year.) And to top it off, they didn't even have to call all the businesses and ask them if they were GLBT friendly or if they wanted to be listed: they sent out the initial email, asked everyone who got it to forward it to one person (free advertising, in other words— something they won't give anyone else) and then sit back and wait for people to send them requests to be listed and to pay them for that privilege.

Now, I ask you, how much help is that really being to the GLBT community? None— unless their pocket gets lined first. And not a whole lot even if they do make money, in my humble opinion, since the options given to the GLBT community are limited only to those who can afford to pay to be listed.

Which brings me to this page. This site is free to users. And a basic listing is free to anyone who offers their wedding/commitment ceremony services to the GLBT community without discrimination. If you know someone who might want to be listed here, send them this URL and tell them to click on the "List Me!" button. They can fill out a short form and send it my way and I'll get their names up ASAP.

• All listings will by state.
• All states will be in alphabetical order.
• Listing from other countries will appear under those from the US.
• Listings will be in alphabetical order unless someone has purchased an upgrade. In that case, their business will remain at the top (also in alphabetical order if more than one business on a page purchases an upgrade) and the name of the business will be boldfaced.
• If the business listed has a website, the name of the business will be the link to their site.
• All sites listed have either been found in a Pride directory/newspaper/magazine, contacted personally by me or have contacted me to be listed.

If you know of a business who would like to be listed, please send them this URL.

March, 2005
To the anonymous individual who sent me a threatening email: It's nice to see that you have the courage and conviction to stand behind your threat by including your name and/or email address in your correspondence. I have retained your email in the event I feel the need to contact my own attorney. I'm sure there's some way to track down where it was sent from should the need arise.