Subject: Weddings

• Last Night: Jail Weddings at The Gypsy Lounge

  Review by Reid Sheldon Better Than: Going to real jail or your girlfriend’s friend’s wedding.

  January 5, 2008

• Are You Gay And Want to Marry? Call KPFK!

  From the Damn, Why Didn't We Think of That?! Department...KPFK-FM 90.7's Uprising morning show wants to broadcast YOUR big fat gay wedding! On their website today, host Sonali Kolhatkar announces, "If you are in a same-sex relationship and are planning to marry, Uprising and KPFK invite you to broadcast your wedding on our airwaves, live on this program." The only surprise is that--at least according to the post--Uprising "will accept only the first couple that contacts us." Sounds so capitalist

  May 19, 2008

• The Messiah Has Returned To Protect Us From Gays, says OC Pastor

  1,975 years after being nailed to a cross for our sins, Jesus Christ, son of God, our savior, the Messiah, Lamb and Nazarene, has just worked a miracle in Oregon. That's the good news being shared by Reverend Wiley Drake, our favorite local gay-bashing Southern Baptist. In one of his relentless, several-times-a-day-emails, Drake tells the Weekly that an Oregon supreme court ruled yesterday that the state's ban on gay marriage is constitutional. You might recall that last week, California's supr

  May 22, 2008

• Gay Marriage Day today in OC - Now With Video!

  There were just a few couples waiting to get married this morning at the old historic courthouse in downtown Santa Ana, but by 9 a.m.—an hour after the county clerk/recorder's office opened—what had been a trickle had turned into a flood. The occasion, of course, was the first hour that same-sex marriages in Orange County would be legally recognized. Once couples had filled out the proper paperwork (which, as of last night, had been changed to read "Party 1" and "Party 2"), some left—they

  June 17, 2008

• This Week in The OC Weekly

  In this week's issue: Daffodil J. Altan follows Alfonso Guerrero and Manuel Chavez on their wedding day in "Eat Drink and Be Gay Married: After 27 years together, one couple finally has its big, fat, Mexican, recovering-drug-addict, HIV-positive, ex-transgender gay wedding" Rich Kane offers some from the scene perspective on the gay weddings in "We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Registered at Crate & Barrel: Notes from a gayer-than-usual Tuesday at the old courthouse in Santa Ana" R. Scot

  June 20, 2008

• Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau Goes Gay, Gay, Gay, Gay, GAY!

  Hello, young gay lovers, wherever you are. If you are heading toward the altar, the Anaheim/Orange County Visitor & Convention Bureau wants you! That is, they want you to get married in fabulous, homo-hatin', Laguna Beach-acceptin', Belmont Shores nearin', closeted-gay legislatin' Orange County. It's rainin' men, and they're all driving Lexuses! "With the recent ruling by the State of California's Supreme Court, we anticipate that many event locations and hotels throughout Anaheim/Orange Count

  September 5, 2008

• Purl of a Girl

  January 1, 2009

• Rock & Parole

  September 18, 2008

• Notes From a Gayer-Than-Usual Tuesday at the Old Courthouse in Santa Ana

  June 19, 2008

• Eat, Drink and Be Gay Married! After 27 Years, One Couple Finally Has Its Big, Fat, Mexican Wedding

  June 19, 2008

• [Summer Guide] My Big Fat Gay Wedding

  June 12, 2008

• Out and About

  May 15, 2008

• Knot Twist

  January 10, 2008

• Fabulous!

  December 6, 2007

• New Reviews

  We recommend: Transformers

  July 5, 2007

• OnDVD

  Blood Diamond and more

  March 22, 2007

• That Dj Guy

  February 15, 2007

• Freeloader

  July 13, 2006

• Modest and Mellow

  April 20, 2006

• Special Screenings

  December 29, 2005

• The Mommy Party

  October 13, 2005

• !Ask a Mexican!

  October 6, 2005

• Sex for Grown-ups

  April 21, 2005

• Just Another Wedding Expo

  Gay and lesbian event trudges on, politics be damned

  July 22, 2004

• Spy in the House of Fashion

  July 22, 2004

• Love Means Never Having to Say Youre Sorry

  April 8, 2004

• Letters

  February 26, 2004

• In Defense of Gay Marriage

  February 12, 2004

• Would you please bite my ear?

  February 5, 2004

• False Advertising

  May 2, 2002

• Mule-Faced Girl

  March 21, 2002

• Stormy Weather

  March 7, 2002

• Empire of the Nonsenses

  January 17, 2002

• His Overlords Voice

  October 18, 2001

• LChaim!

  September 6, 2001

• Tale of the Tapes

  August 2, 2001

• Pink-Slip Wedding

  July 5, 2001

• A Not-So-Fine Romance

  February 1, 2001

• A Truly Sacred Place

  September 14, 2000

• Happy Anniversary!

  September 14, 2000

• Beauty and the Beasts

  September 23, 1999

• Tuna Does Vegas

  April 30, 2009

• Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something Green

  The Road Less Traveled Store in Santa Ana is featured in the new book Green Weddings: Planning Your Eco-friendly Celebration by New York Times Style correspondent Mireya Navarro.  (In the interest of full disclosure, it must be noted that the owner of the store is involved with a certain Weekly staffer who writes a column that rhymes with "Task-a-Texican.")Copies of the comprehensive, photo-loaded tome will be about when Navarro appears at the Road Less Traveled Store, 2202 1/2 N. Main St.,

  May 14, 2009

• Finally, Studio At Montage Laguna Beach Names New Executive Chef

  Following a lengthy countrywide search, the Montage has announced Craig Strong as Executive Chef of Studio, replacing James Boyce, who left earlier this year.Strong, until yesterday Chef de Cuisine at The Langham, Huntington Hotel & Spa (formerly Ritz-Carlton) in Pasadena, was a semifinalist for Best Chef/Pacific in the 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards. He is, we're told, getting married first, then starting his new gig at the Montage in June. Busy boy!

  May 21, 2009

• First Latino Gay Couple To Wed in OC Last Year Says Court Sent Mixed Message

  Happier times: Alfonso and Manuel on the eve of their wedding last year. Today's state Supreme Court ruling on Prop. 8, which upholds a ban on same-sex marriage, was bittersweet (but mostly bitter) news for Alfonso Guerrero and Manuel "Bibys" Chavez, the loving duo we profiled last year, and the first Latino couple to legally marry in the county on the morning of June 17, 2008.They and 18,000 other couples will get to stay married (a move the couple sees as progress for the overall cause, despit

  May 26, 2009

• Sea of Ink

  June 11, 2009

• Something Old, Something New, Something Rented . . .

  A sign of the times:According to industry research firm IBISWorld, spending on rented bridal gowns is expected to grow 7.5 percent to $43 million--up from $40 million in 2008. With brides renting dresses, sales of new wedding gowns are expected to decrease 2.8 percent this year, reaching just $973 million. While the decline is not as steep as the 4.2 percent drop experienced in 2008, the industry has seen declines since 2001. Brides who do purchase a dress will more likely buy their garments in

  June 24, 2009

• Fiddler on the Roof

  August 6, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Wedding-Bell Azules

  September 3, 2009

• Jail Weddings

  November 5, 2009