Wedding Invitations for a Same Sex Marriage Ceremony

Ricaso Weddings designed these classy wedding invitations for two grooms, or two brides. They have a glorious twist on the traditional look with a couple of top hats or wedding dresses signifying that the union is between a couple of the same gender.

The names can be customized into your own (or else that would be silly), while the reverse of the cards allow you to complete the rest of the necessary details for attendance.

Each card comes with a plain white envelope, though the designer does have those matching the invitation for an extra cost.

Far more blatant is this two grooms wedding invitation and its twin for two brides. Created by Gayshirt, the initials represent the couple being united here. They can naturally be altered to match your own.

On the back of the gay wedding invitation card is a square picking up the colors from the front (black for gay men, turquoise for lesbian brides), wherein you may describe the details of your nuptials for your guests. Its borders pick up the pattern from the other side (stripes for two grooms, ornate swirls for two brides).

SeaLove lets color tell the tale of this particular romance. Blue for the boys, pink for the girls. That the cards are washed through with the same pastel hues hints at the fact that the couple becoming united share the same gender.

Though, in truth, the names are customizable and there are more colors to choose between too. Therefore you can dodge the whole symbolic thing, if you merely like the design, and have whatever color invitation card you wish for your gay commitment ceremony.

You might say there's a bit of a theme here, as quite a few designers have run with the concept of the rainbow for their gay union invitations.

On the extreme off-chance that you don't get the reference, the rainbow is the symbol of Gay Pride. It represents unity in diversity, equality in all things. You can learn more about the history of it by looking into San Francisco's Castro district and the work of Harvey Milk.

Nor is it only the basic gay wedding invitations that co-opt the glory of Rainbow Pride. The RSVP types have gone there too!

There's probably a great pun to be made here about making a splash with your Gay Pride related wedding invitations, but that would be too obvious.

Nevertheless, these are both fabulously fun rainbow invitations for a same-sex union. With just a few strokes of color, they manage to convey joy, celebration and style, while drawing upon decades of history. That latter is only another way of describing tradition.

I'm going to go all out and call these traditional wedding invitations for a gay marriage ceremony. And pretty too. And relating the needful information. A triumph!

(If you'd prefer the same, but without the whole RSVP angle. Look again at the collection of Rainbow Pride marriage invitations above. There is one from the same designer there.)

Of course, it is entirely possible to have all of that - in a same sex wedding RSVP invitation - without bringing the politics of Gay Pride into it.  Your union may have been brought about by those campaigns, but on the day it's ultimately about two people in love.

Nor does it have to go near the antics of your bedroom.

You might be inviting people who get a little bit worried about the bigger picture, and merely want to bring it down to those whom they know.

For those who merely want lovely RSVP wedding invitations for a same sex wedding, with no other symbolism to be read into it at all, how about this lot?

I mentioned before my love of Celtic knot-work, so you can imagine my glee when I found that first gay wedding RSVP invitation. The corners and borders both interweave with those old British patterns - all things in unity, linking into the other.

Unfortunately artist Mark Thaler hadn't created anything similar in his RSVP wedding invitations for lesbian couples. Therefore I've paired it with another of his designs from the LGBT Pride Store on Zazzle.

Mark Thaler is behind these RSVP same sex wedding invitations too. Found in the same store, but not with corresponding designs for another gender. Therefore I've put them together as close enough.

The marriage invitation for two grooms would be very suitable for a beach gay wedding. Shells and sand-castles complete the theme there. But it would equally do for any male same sex union, where a fairy-tale prince found his queen. Or as near as we can get in real life.

Two brides face each other in silhouette, the words between representing the altar (or desk) where they'll make their vows. This classy card works well as a lesbian butch and femme wedding invitation. The lady on the left could be male, if not for the hint of her ear-ring, while her partner on the right is extremely feminine complete with a head-dress of hearts.

Wedding Trendy ran with the idea of traditional wedding hats for these same sex wedding RSVP invitations.

Grooms everywhere wear tuxedos for their union, with the top hat finishing the look. When your wedding has two grooms, invitations need two top hats!

I'll admit that I was expecting wedding veils for the corresponding lesbian RSVP wedding invitation. But these two brides are represented instead by wedding hats that I'd more commonly associate with their guests. Mind you, these cards are addressed to the guests, so perhaps that is the point.

And anyway, according to the blarb given in store, these are lesbian bridal cowgirl hats. My apologies. I'm a Briton. I missed that US cultural link!

And by the same token, perhaps I should just let you provide your own commentary on the two Wild West gay wedding RSVP invitations above. Other than vague references to Brokeback Mountain, we can assume that I know nothing about the cowboy gay culture genre, nor lesbian cowgirls either. I won't insult your intelligence by trying.

Back onto much safer ground for me are these culturally British same-sex wedding invitations:

Keep Calm gay wedding invitations are very fashionable right now, but they have their origin back in wartime Britain. They're more popular now than they were then.

During the 1940s, the stately homos of Britain (to nick a phrase from Quentin Crisp) would only have seen those famous Keep Calm and Carry On posters if the Nazis had invaded. Fortunately for all concerned, the Third Reich never successfully conquered those borders.

These RSVP same-sex wedding invitations with the Keep Calm motto and logo are beautifully done. They're rendered gay with same-sex couples silhouetted in kisses and hearts, while you can read what you like into the crown of the queen overhead!

And finally...

The gamer in me adores these wedding invitations for gay couples, even while I'm wondering why they've put me in mind of games. Perhaps it's because generally I see these figures on gaming t-shirts and the like, while the font certainly has the Digital Age in mind.

In reality, I'm more used to seeing those silhouetted shapes on toilet doors. I'm not selling these to you very well, am I?

These gay wedding RSVP invitations are fun though, aren't they? Brightly colored, with love hearts touching upon the romance, while the internet generation is apparent in everything else. I like them, though the choice is up to you.

And on that note, I hope that you did find something that you liked here. If not, then I'll leave you with a few more which might fit the bill.

Congratulations on your wedding and all my best regards for your marriage ahead.