Same-sex wedding expo gives gays great ideas
19.05.12
LIVONIA -
The Courtyard by Marriot in Livonia was overflowing with affection on April 29 as over 300 people came out for Between The Lines' surrogate annual Same-Sex Wedding Expo. The event, which was sponsored by Comerica, gave attendees a unpremeditated to meet gay-friendly vendors for every aspect of wedding planning.
There were jewelers, travel agents, bakeries, chocolatiers, conjugal shops, tuxedo rental establishments, caterers, photographers, invitation designers and more. There was even a seminar on pecuniary planning and another on the marriage movement by ACLU attorney Jay Kaplan.
Among those who enjoyed get-together the vendors, sampling the wedding cakes and other food, and gathering swag from the tables were Jenay Kightlinger and Lisa Bishop. The Garden Bishopric couple has been together "on and off," for 23 years. Kightlinger picked out the consummate ring, and got permission from Bishop's sister before proposing to her at the Canton Pizza Hut, a apartment they often hung out when they were teens.
Source: pride source.com
Interview: Cara Elliott, author of 'Too Tempting to Resist'
19.05.12
, My leading actress is a gifted botanical artist and so in exploring the history of floral illustration, I came across some honestly fascinating information.
Now, we've all heard that a red rose signifies true love, but I also well-educated that there is an elaborate "dictionary" of meanings for a vast garden of blooms. The concept of flowers having a terminology of their own has actually been around since ancient times. For example, the Greeks and Romans considered hawthorn blossoms a symptomatic of of hope and marriage, and they were common at wedding ceremonies. In China and the Ottoman Empire, flowers also took on a colorful distribute of symbolic meanings in rituals and celebrations.
It was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the helpmeet of the British ambassador to Constantinople, who first introduced the concept of "talking" flowers to England in the prematurely 1700s. The idea that lovers could communicate with each other through a "secret" language seemed to strike a idealist chord throughout Europe, and during the next century, the concept developed into one where each individual type of bloom took on a particular meaning. By 1819, there were handbooks on "floriography." I discovered that one of the first was written by a Frenchwoman named Charlotte de Latour — no shock as the French have always been fluent in the language of love!
Source: USA TODAY