Since March of 2010, Tammy Freeman and her company Pink Dot Concepts have been doing their part to make marriage happen for LGBT couples. After the somewhat surprising and continually frustrating experience of “coming out” to every vendor during her personal wedding-planning process, Freeman decided to offer a unique solution. She built an event-planning company specifically for lesbian and gay couples. Freeman tells 10,000 Couples, “We are a strategic marketing and branding company that aims to provide a vehicle to connect small businesses to the end consumer. Our goal is to establish relationships and our chosen method to do this is through events.” What this means for the LGBT community is that we now have the opportunity to plan our weddings, commitment ceremonies, and unions without facing the presumptions of a hetero-centric business world.

By Angela Minor

Angela has had the good fortune to participate in several professional careers over the course of her lifetime. She has applied her skills to teaching English, and writing; small business ownership, and writing; sales and marketing, and writing; university graduate level research, and writing. As is evident, writing has been her companion throughout! She is the word nerd who actually takes notes at symposiums and events! And not just on the presented topics. She finds people, settings, interactions and conversations fascinating. The entire visual, auditory, kinesthetic experience is worth noticing and noting.

Angela has traveled the globe soaking in the scenery, culture and customs near and far. She has lived in the bush of Alaska to the Atlantic seaside of Savannah and various places in between. She is currently a full time freelance writer with pieces in various venues on the web and many local and regional publications. When she is not writing, Angela can be found at the latest Broadway show or communing with Mother Earth in The Great Smoky Mountains.

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