Sign up today for “Beyond the Rainbow: Creating Truly LGBTQ+ Inclusive Wedding Experiences”
Beyond the Rainbow: Creating Truly LGBTQ+ Wedding Experiences
🗓️ Tuesday, June 30
Networking: 6:00-6:30
Interactive Workshop: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Fig Hollow Barn | Palmyra, NY
This interactive workshop is designed specifically for professionals in the wedding industry who want to move beyond performative allyship and create genuinely inclusive experiences for LGBTQ+ couples and their families.
Whether you’re a planner, photographer, videographer, florist, venue owner, DJ, officiant, baker, HMUA, or any vendor working with couples, this workshop is for you.
💡 WHY ATTEND?
Today’s couples are looking deeper than a rainbow logo during Pride Month. LGBTQ+ couples want to know: Are you truly safe? Inclusive? Educated? Intentional?
This workshop helps you answer those questions through your ACTIONS, not just your marketing.
The wedding industry has historically excluded, misrepresented, or overlooked LGBTQ+ people. Many couples still experience discomfort, assumptions, misgendering, or tokenization while planning one of the most meaningful days of their lives.
Being an ally isn’t about saying “everyone is welcome here.”
It’s about being willing to learn, grow, listen, and intentionally create spaces where couples feel seen, respected, celebrated, and safe.
In this workshop, we’ll discuss:
✨ How to create truly affirming client experiences
✨ Inclusive language and communication practices
✨ Common mistakes vendors make without realizing it
✨ How to build trust with LGBTQ+ couples authentically
✨ Ways to make your business stand out as genuinely inclusive
✨How inclusivity benefits not only your clients, but your business and community as a whole
This is not about “getting it perfect.”
It’s about committing to the work and showing couples that their love, identities, and authenticity matter.
🎟 Registration: $65 + tax per person
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Your registration includes:
✔ Printed workshop manual/materials
✔ Light appetizers
✔ PNG “LGBTQ+ Inclusive Vendor” sticker for your website/social media
✔ 2-hour interactive workshop
✔ Two experienced facilitators
✔ The opportunity to support local LGBTQ+ businesses
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 5% of proceeds will be donated to Rochester LGBTQ+ Together: a local nonprofit dedicated to providing educational workshops, peer support groups, social opportunities, and community resources for historically and systemically marginalized LGBTQ+ individuals throughout Rochester and Monroe County.
Co-hosted by:
The SafeZone Initiative + CelebrateYOU Events
🎟 Limited spots available
This has already been a highly requested training, and spots are expected to fill quickly.
REGISTER NOW and be part of creating a more inclusive, affirming wedding industry for ALL couples. 🌈
Sign up today for our May 2026 In Person SafeZone Train - the - Trainer!
Join our SafeZone Train-the-Trainer Certification, a comprehensive and immersive program designed to cultivate confident, knowledgeable, and dynamic SafeZone facilitators. This advanced training equips participants with the skills, insight, and tools needed to build and sustain impactful SafeZone programs in schools, college campuses, workplaces, and everyday community spaces.
This certification goes beyond participation, you’ll step behind the curtain to learn exactly how our SafeZone program is facilitated. Through guided walkthroughs, practical demonstrations, and candid discussion, participants will explore how to effectively present activities, anticipate audience responses, support individuals at varying comfort levels, and gracefully navigate the inevitable challenges that arise during live trainings.
Throughout the workshop, participants will have ample opportunity for open Q&A in a supportive, judgment-free environment, learning directly from our team’s real-world experiences, lessons learned, and best practices so you can feel fully prepared and confident leading your own LGBTQ+ inclusion trainings.
Each participant will receive a 50+ page SafeZone Train-the-Trainer manual rooted in an intersectional framework, including:
Suggested training outlines
A curated bank of ready-to-use handouts
An in-depth activities guide
Hand-selected resources
Facilitator guides
Recommended readings
…along with our favorite tips and tricks to empower both you and your future SafeZone participants.
In addition, certified trainers will receive an official SafeZone Initiative sticker and lapel pin, a digital certificate, and three years of ongoing support, including assistance with training preparation and access to updated materials as the program continues to evolve.
Please Note: This is not a standard SafeZone training. Participants must be fully committed to LGBTQ+ equality and inclusion and should already possess a foundational understanding of LGBTQ+ terminology, barriers, and lived experiences
OUR GUARANTEE
While all of our training programs (except the GSA Guest Speaker session) carry associated costs, we are committed to ensuring that price does not become a barrier. Our primary focus is on accessibility to the communities we serve. If budget constraints are a concern, please feel free to reach out. We are dedicated to collaborating with you to find a solution that allows us to deliver these essential trainings to your team.
