Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Love Story: Kaitlyn and Melissa of Baltimore, Maryland




LOVE STORY
Kaitlyn (24) and Melissa (26)
Baltimore, Maryland


Marriage Plans...

We are planning on getting married! We just got engaged on May 11, 2014 at a vineyard in central Virginia, and we are excitedly starting the wedding planning process. Our goal is to get married in August 2015, although we have a lot of details to sort out before picking our set date.

First Meeting...

Tell us briefly how you meet (your love story) and how long you've been together. -- We met online in late summer of 2013, so we've been together almost a year now. When we first started talking, we were emailing back and forth novels that took hours to write. For our first Skype date, I put on perfume and she ate a mint (we still laugh about the fact that we were both this nervous that we didn't think that these things didn't make sense for only a video date). We rearranged our schedules to meet in-person as soon as we could. We joke that we had the worst first date in history because we were both so nervous and not ourselves at all, but we had clicked so well talking that, thankfully, we went on a second date that was much better! We moved in together shortly after we began officially dating due to circumstances causing us both to need to move at the exact same time. She was living in New York, I was living in Virginia, and we ended up with an apartment in Maryland. We quickly adopted two dogs to grow our little family, and we just got engaged!


And, they attended Say I Do! Virginia!

Before we were engaged, I dragged her to the event in Northern Virginia. She was not in her zone at all, while I was having a blast decorating my own cupcake and chatting with vendors. We played up our differences, as we always do, and got some laughs from vendors who were amused by how unamused she was and how overly-enthusiastic I was. We actually ended up finding our photographer who we're now using through the event AND we won a gift card from one of the vendors, so I would say it was definitely worth it!


Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Giveaway: Vinyl Wall Design Courtesy of Simply Said by Susan


Thanks to Simply Said by Susan, we are giving away this lovely vinyl wall design which reads
"A True Love Story Never Ends"

What a perfect adornment to any room in the house.  All are welcomed to enter, we will select one winner. Winner must confirm within 48 hours of being notified of winning.


GOOD LUCK!


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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Giveaway: All-Access Pass to the GayCharlotte Film Festival (Admits 2)!

                       Winner gets an all access pass to the 
                               GayCharlotte Film Festival!!
               Follow the instructions below to enter to win! 




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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Monday, April 7, 2014

Spotted Award Winner: Crystal Beng of Cherry Blossom Weddings








What are the Spotted Awards?
The Say I Do! Spotted Awards is our way of recognizing and bringing attention to those businesses that stand on the side of equality and love. We feel that all too often those businesses who refuse service to gays and lesbians receive more attention (though negative) than those businesses that have always stood in alliance with the LGBT community. We want to change that by highlighting businesses who stand for love and equality.   It also serves to provide examples to other businesses on how they can be more diverse and inclusive.


We are super excited to announce our final Spotted Award winner of the Spring Spotted Awards, Crystal Beng of Cherry Blossom Weddings! 

Read about Crystal of Cherry Blossom Weddings Below...

Cherry Blossom Weddings specializes in day-of coordination, partial planning, and LGBT weddings across Hampton Roads. While we know there isn’t a difference between a gay wedding and a straight wedding, until the rest of the world catches on, we still have some hurdles to jump.  We’re active in the community and rub elbows with Hampton Roads Pride, HRBOR, and Equality Virginia.  Cherry Blossom Weddings is passionate about marriage equality, because after all, “marriage by any other name is not equal.”






Crystal Beng
Head Wedding Ninja
Cherry Blossom Weddings, LLC
757-228-5494 (call/ text)

Photo credits: Liz Maryann Photography; the group shot was done by Fresh Look Photography

Friday, April 4, 2014

Say I Do! Anniversary Giveaway with Good Day Greetings!


We are so excited to have another great giveaway in honor of our 5th Anniversary! We've partnered with Good Day Greetings to bring an awesome opportunity to win a $30 shopping spree in their shop plus a t-shirt and pen!

Don't wait, enter today! And be sure to support LGBT owned and LGBT-affirming business!




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