{"id":288945,"date":"2026-05-12T03:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288945\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:08:15","slug":"austin-based-business-offering-central-texas-lgbtq-couples-chance-at-wedding-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/288945\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin-based business offering Central Texas LGBTQ+ couples chance at wedding ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Austin-based Broadly Entertaining is gifting six LGBTQ+ couples a micro-wedding ceremony to elope on Summer Solstice<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Interested couples must apply by May 16 and chosen couples will be notified on May 23<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is a $15 application fee with proceeds going to the Trevor Project<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; LGBTQ+ couples in Central Texas have an opportunity to elope on the Summer Solstice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The backstory<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadlyentertaining.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Broadly Entertaining;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Broadly Entertaining&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Broadly Entertaining<\/a> is a woman-owned wedding officiation and events production small business out of Austin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The business is gifting up to six Central Texas LGBTQ+ couples a bespoke, memorable micro-wedding ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The wedding will be for the couple and up to 10 guests and include decor, music, an officiant, photography, snacks and beverages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Broadly Entertaining says it is doing this to celebrate the &#8220;beautiful diversity, deep similarities, and capacity for love in all of us&#8221; and to help support and contribute &#8220;to the United States of America&#8217;s movement toward equality and acceptance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What you can do<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Interested couples <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadlyentertaining.com\/ameriqueer-in-austin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:need to apply here;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;need to apply here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">need to apply here<\/a> by May 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is a non-refundable $15 application fee, with proceeds being donated to the Trevor Project, the world&#8217;s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention non-profit focused on LGBTQ+ youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Every applicant will receive a printable copy of Broadly Entertaining&#8217;s ceremony-planning questionnaire, as well as a complimentary digital copy of the Broadly Entertaining Wedding Planning Activity Book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chosen couples will be notified by May 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Couples will be married on June 21 from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. (one couple per hour) at the ColdTowne Theater in East Austin during LGBTQ+ Pride Month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information from Broadly Entertaining and Parker|Phoenix Public Relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Austin-based Broadly Entertaining is gifting six LGBTQ+ couples a micro-wedding ceremony to elope on Summer Solstice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,105870,105869],"class_list":["post-288945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-entertaining","tag-the-trevor-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}