NEWS: New Gay Wedding Categories Need Cards!
GCU has added two new categories that are just begging for cards:
Announcements > Just Married/Wedding Announcements > Gay/Lesbian
Announcements > Engaged/Getting Married > Gay/Lesbian
These join existing categories Invitations > Wedding > Gay/Lesbian and Congratulations > Wedding/Marriage > Gay/Lesbian.
Why should you be excited? Because with the recent Supreme Court decisions, public acceptance on the rise, and the continuing legal challenges to same-sex marriage bans on a state level, it looks like more states will be allowing gay/lesbian marriage in the future. Many gay and lesbian couples are flying to a state that allows them to marry and tying the knot, so they need announcements and invitations, and their family/friends need congratulations cards.
A couple of tips to keep in mind as you design cards for these categories:
- Please ditch the rainbows.
- The card design and/or verse will have to reflect the unique category in some way, or you risk having your card declined. Be creative.
- Add Collections > Gay/Lesbian as your second category.
- If your design skills support it, don’t forget to include specially themed gay and lesbian Wedding Attendants/Bridal Party invitations, too (these would go into the usual sub-categories). See the example at the beginning of this post.
Have fun!
GCU Community 
Wonderful category additions … Time to go put my thinking cap on to freshen up some of my older designs and create some new ones 🙂
Great, but what’s with the “Please ditch the rainbows” bit? If ever there was an appropriate time to use the rainbow flag, this is it, and I already have a series of images ready to go that prominently feature the iconic flag as backgrounds for my cartoon foregrounds. Does this mean all of these are doomed to be rejected because of an arbitrary pronouncement?
Let me be clear: your cards will not be declined because of a rainbow. They will only be declined if they fail to make the usual Submission Guidelines. As far as my comment about ditching the rainbows, speaking from experience, a lot of gays and lesbians are not interested in rainbows on their wedding invites and announcements. Feel free to ignore the advice if you choose.
Corrie