Every single Twin Cities vendor I have dealt with thus far in the process of creating a wedding venue and planning my wedding has been incredibly same-sex wedding friendly. And of course, business-wise they all would be, who wants to turn away business that has actively sought you out, but it's more than that. It's in the way a person gets a little more excited when they realize that more same-sex couples are actively ignoring our state's lack of recognition of same-sex unions/marriages, it's there when someone wants to work with you because they want to add more gay weddings into their portfolio because it's something they believe in, and it's absolutely present within those first few milliseconds after you tell them your fiance is female and they really don't give a damn.
The latter is when you can really tell how friendly a vendor is. And I'm not suggesting that vendors rehearse straight (no pun intended) faces in case a bride or groom reveals to them that they are marrying someone of the same gender. I don't expect that. It is something different to be marrying someone of the same sex, at least in Minnesota at this point in time. The look is one of acknowledging and accepting all within the same look. And that's what has happened thus far within all of my interactions with other business owners and wedding vendors a year into my business/wedding planning journey. It's absolutely refreshing and it's absolutely hopeful that soon enough Minnesota will be a state with full marriage equality.
Sota Pop Weddings is Minnesota Popular Weddings, a blog detailing the quest of one Minnesota bride/wedding professional to map out all things wedding related in Minnesota. Along the way some irresistible goodies from elsewhere are thrown in the mix.
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