Modern Brides & Modern Grooms: A Guide to Planning Straight, Gay, and Other Nontraditional Twenty-First-Century Weddings

Mark O'Connell LCSW

ISBN 10: 1510711481 / ISBN 13: 9781510711488

Published by Skyhorse Publishing, 2017

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Synopsis:

This book is for any couple—same or opposite sex—seeking a personalized wedding that dignifies the relationship and the individual self. No “new normal” here—this guide emboldens you to harness your unique, brazen, queer truth; to be creative; and to plan your wedding your way.

Every fiancé faces the question, how do I become something new without losing myself? Using his own story, author Mark O’Connell reflects on conflicts that arrive during wedding transitions, as well as various other transitions throughout your lives.

As a psychotherapist, O’Connell offers ideas to bridge relational gaps with your partner, family, and friends. As a professional actor, he also offers insight into the ways your wedding is a theatrical production and how this can help you to conceptualize the event, consolidate your efforts, and increase creative collaboration as a couple. This will serve you not only on your big day, but also for the rest of your time together.

Whether we’re straight, gay, or other, weddings inspire us to carve out more fun, freedom, recognition, life space, love space, and connubial space than we’ve ever had before.

About the Author: Mark O’Connell is a New York City-based psychotherapist in private practice, author, and public speaker on issues related to gender, identity, and relationship conflicts. He is an official expert on Marriage.com, and is frequently interviewed by popular wedding planning sources such as Brides Magazine, The Knot, and Inside Weddings. He regularly contributes to The Huffington Post, PsychologyToday, and Truthdig.com, and his clinical writing has been published by The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His website is www.markoconnelltherapist.com. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Liza Monroy is the author of The Marriage Act: The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America and What It Taught Us About Love and Mexican High. She has written for the New York Times, O, Marie Claire and many other publications. She resides in Santa Cruz, California.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Modern Brides & Modern Grooms: A Guide to ...
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good