Chapter 1I’d had no idea what was involved in getting married when I asked my boyfriend to get hitched. I figured it was simple enough. A civil ceremony. Neither of us were particularly religious, though I guessed my family was. Given that we were two guys marrying, the church wouldn’t exactly cooperate anyway.
But even though I wanted and anticipated a civil ceremony, I also wanted to do it up right. With flowers and champagne. Maybe a sit-down dinner. The fancy cake. I didn’t want to do the “quickie wedding at a drive-up Las Vegas chapel.” That wasn’t my style.
Planning a real wedding, though, wasn’t so easy. I wanted to hire a planner, maybe, but those are pricier than you might think. And then you gotta order the flowers and the booze and the dinner.
Maybe the quickie wedding my lov
