Perhaps surprisingly, it did not take us very long to settle on wedding dress decisions. Lindsey bought her wedding dress a few months ago (on sale, as it happened to luck out).
Hello Kitty is very cute.
So, Lindsey never gets this question (maybe I’m wrong!), but I get it a lot. Are you going to wear a dress? And yes, yes I am. I’m hot good lookin’ in a dress.
Okay. Maybe I am a little dykey.
At Oggi's in Guangzhou, after "gay prom".
I heart men’s clothing. Actually, it took me kinda a long time to figure out that I’m gay, because I think guys are really attractive. It took me a while to realize that I want to be sexy like a man, not have sex with a man. And when I finally learned what “transgender” was, things became a lot clearer for me. No, I’m not trans, but it did take me a minute figure out also that while I want to dress like a man, I don’t want to be a man.
So, if I dress like a dude 90% of the time, love men’s clothes, and would rather spend $100 on Cole Haan shoes than makeup brushes, what’s the deal with wearing a dress at my wedding? It’s a lot of smaller reasons. I actually kind of like wearing dresses. Finally, after years and years of resenting them, I like it. Now, I get to choose when and if I wear a dress (and I rarely do). I like that I look good in a dress, and I will wear them for the right occasion. I like looking like I’m getting married. I also like proving to people that I can– I can wear a dress as good as you, I can walk in heels. (And I have some fierce looking legs when I wear heels, for the record.) I can be a woman and wear men’s clothing, and I can be butch and wear a dress. I feel more like I’m cross-dressing in a dress than I ever do in a tie, but I can work it queen, *snap*snap*snap.
I can’t do my makeup though; Lindsey does that for me.
For more stylish ‘mos, you can check out a few of the hip butch/dyke fashion sites on our fair internet:
The Sartorial Butch (who also just got married!)
Dapper Q
Dyke Republic‘s Fashion tab
Butch Style
Rachel & Lindsey Married 
My mom’s wife wore a white wedding dress to their wedding (mum wore a shiny satin amazingness that was lovely but not a stereotypical wedding dress) and she rocked it! Jeanne will wear dresses for special occasions (weddings, funerals, etc) but usually is much more comfortable in, well, your wardrobe, sans ties. I thought it made perfect sense, and she looked gorgeous. Sometimes menswear on women looks right at a wedding, but sometimes you just need a good frock. Can’t wait to see the dresses–I’ll go buy some sanrio to fit in better….
McDonald’s Happy Meals come with Sanrio watches right now! True story.