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Alternative Wedding Guide
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Love Who You Love, Be Who You Are: The INDY’s Third-Annual Wedding Guide
Our guiding principle: All couples are uniquely beautiful and deserve to be celebrated for who they are, no matter who they are.
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Raleigh Churches Fight Back Against the United Methodists’ Same-Sex Marriage Crackdown
“I am not an issue; I am a person. If the church cannot accept me just as I am, then it has no place for me.”
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Four Stories From Four (and a Half) Years of Same-Sex Marriage in North Carolina
“I remember when Amendment 1 was being passed and how inhuman my now-wife and I felt.”
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Who Needs a Caterer? Park Some Food Trucks Outside of Your Wedding.
Fair warning: It won’t be as easy as you think.
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Who’s Killing Marriage? It Might Not Be Who—or What—You Think.
Marriage is dead, long live marriage.
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Cake Boss: Edible Arts Bakery’s Todd Mozingo on Some of His Wildest Creations
Many long-established wedding traditions are being altered, twisted, and revamped to accommodate the interests and aesthetics of a new wave of couples. That goes for cakes, too. We talked to Todd Mozingo, the owner of Edible Arts Bakery, the oldest dessert bakery in Raleigh, about some of his bakery’s wildest custom creations and how the […]
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You Can Get Hitched in the Jail, or Above I-40, or at a Lot of Weird Places
The Durham County Detention Facility isn’t the first place you’d think of to get hitched. Unless you’re Natalie Spring and Harris Carpenter, that is. The Durham couple had vowed not to get married until same-sex marriage was legalized in North Carolina. In 2008, they had a commitment ceremony that wasn’t conventional either. The ceremony took […]
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Seriously, Stop Playing “Blurred Lines” at Your Wedding
There’s a near-infinite crop of songs you can queue up to celebrate the new chapter of your life with your partner. But here are some you should absolutely, under no circumstances, play when you get married. No, these aren’t the well-worn favorites like Kool and the Gang’s “Celebration” or Etta James’s “At Last.” These are […]
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How to Officiate a Wedding on the Fly When You’re a Marriage Skeptic
Two hundred miles west of the Triangle, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, two waterfalls begin at the head of Linville Gorge. As they cascade down a series of tiers, they merge into one before plunging through more than forty feet of open air. To the Cherokee people, this was “the river of many cliffs,” but […]