Budget, guest list, venue – there’s a lot to think about when planning a wedding. And as Alex Hickson and Oliver Burr discovered after getting engaged last year, as an LGBTQ+ couple, additional considerations can crop up.
“We quickly faced a couple of stumbling blocks,” Hickson, 26, recalls of when he and Burr, 35, started researching options. “The first wedding fayre we attended, we were asked, ‘Where is the bride?’ as soon as we entered. Staff didn’t know how to react when we said we were two grooms and a same sex couple.
