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Modern Brides & Modern Grooms - A Guide to Planning Straight Gay and Other Nontraditional Twenty-First-Century Weddings - cover

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Modern Brides & Modern Grooms - A Guide to Planning Straight Gay and Other Nontraditional Twenty-First-Century Weddings

Mark O'Connell

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

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The book’s impeccably inclusive writing makes it relatable for all couples, regardless of race, orientation or religion.” —The Knot 
 
National Indie Excellence Book Award Finalist—Marriage and LGBT Non-Fiction 
 
Rainbow Book Award Finalist/Runner Up—LGBT Debut 
 
This book is for any couple—same or opposite sex—seeking a personalized wedding that dignifies the relationship and the individual self. No “new normal” here—this guide emboldens you to harness your unique, brazen, queer truth; to be creative; and to plan your wedding your way. 
 
Every fiancé faces the question, how do I become something new without losing myself? Using his own story, author Mark O’Connell reflects on conflicts that arrive during wedding transitions, as well as various other transitions throughout your lives. 
 
As a psychotherapist, O’Connell offers ideas to bridge relational gaps with your partner, family, and friends. As a professional actor, he also offers insight into the ways your wedding is a theatrical production and how this can help you to conceptualize the event, consolidate your efforts, and increase creative collaboration as a couple. This will serve you not only on your big day, but also for the rest of your time together. 
 
Whether we’re straight, gay, or other, weddings inspire us to carve out more fun, freedom, recognition, life space, love space, and connubial space than we’ve ever had before. 
 
“Mark’s perspective and advice will prove invaluable to working out the kinks and having not only your dream wedding, but better communication with your significant other, family, friends, and in-laws.” —Liza Monroy, author of The Marriage Act
Available since: 01/03/2017.
Print length: 298 pages.

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