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Elizabeth Oakes is the braintrust behind MarriageToGo.Com, a unique marriage licensing and wedding officiation service in Los Angeles, CA. She creates and conducts hundreds of civil and event weddings per year and writes from the trenches about weddings, marriage, and our changing culture.

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Texas outlaws all marriages...by mistake

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 · 1 comment

It just seems like a no-brainer that if you're going to write an amendment to ban same-sex marriages in your state, you should be really careful how...
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Celebrating fifty years of marriage and a renewal of vows

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Gary and Norma thought they were attending a nice cocktail party at their daughter's house on their fiftieth wedding anniversary but for weeks their...
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Reflections on "until death do us part"

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I went to a memorial service this weekend for a man whose wedding I officiated less than a year ago; this particular couple had an intimate wedding...
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Mourning Maine marriage equality

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It's a sad day for Maine and marriage equality as Maine's voters repeal marriage equality laws passed by their...
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Injustice of the Peace: the Louisiana interracial marriage story and why it matters

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Surely you've heard by now about Keith Bardwell, the Louisiana Justice of the Peace who refuses to marry interracial couples because he doesn't...
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Prop. 8 federal lawsuit surmounts challenge, will go forward

Chief U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker today rejected an attempt by anti-gay-marriage forces to quash the pending federal lawsuit challenging...
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Urgent-need weddings, part two: health insurance and immigration

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Urgent-need Weddings, Part One: illness and hospitalization In Part One on urgent-need weddings, I wrote about Ellen and Thierry (not their real...
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Urgent-need weddings, part one: illness and hospitalization

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Her eyes were filling with tears. "I have a cake at home, flowers...the cousins flew in...he really wanted to have a party..." And...
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Getting Married 101: where do I start?

Getting engaged can be very exciting; needing to get married quickly for legal or healthcare reasons can cause hysteria. Once the head stops swimming...
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A military engagement: guest column by bride-to-be Whitney K. Coleman

Whitney Coleman is a business reporter for the The News Tribune in Tacoma, WA; she contacted me a couple weeks ago for an article she was cooking up...
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