A Present for the Gingerbreads
July 18th, 2008 @ 5:00 pm by Miss Sweet Tea
If you are reading this post, then it means that Mr. Sweet Tea and I are enjoying a beautiful weekend in Vancouver, celebrating with Miss Gingerbread and Miss GB 2.0, or rather, the two MRS. Gingerbreads. And if you’re not… well, it looks like I am typing to myself!
While I would have gone to Vancouver just for the dim sum (mmm…), I am even more excited to be a part of two of my favorite ladies’ special day. The big question for Mr. ST and I was: what to get two of the coolest people we know for their wedding?
For their shower, we went off-registry to Anthropologie and bought the Gingerbreads a cookbook and the little apron and mitt you saw Miss Gingerbread wearing:
Miss Gingerbread secretly told me it was her favorite shower gift (ssh!), so I wasn’t sure we could top that for the wedding. What pressure!
While we’ll be buying an ‘official’ present for the ladies once we’re in Canada (we don’t want to deal with that pesky import tax), something was missing… we needed to bring something more.
Informational pamphlets from Equality California to inform their guests about Proposition 8, the proposed amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in California? Information that would help their other guests, most of them coming from California, educate themselves and others before the election? Why, yes! That would be perfect.
Finding said pamphlets was a bit of a challenge- as of Monday, it was still unclear whether Prop. 8 would definitely make the November ballot, so I think it was holding up the printing. I did, however, manage to find an informational sheet through friends at the San Diego LGBT Center that includes a pledge sheet, for people to state their commitment to voting NO on Prop. 8.
Now, if you’re lucky, you might soon be getting a little sneak peek of the Gingerbread festivities from yours truly. See you next week!
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9 Responses to “A Present for the Gingerbreads”
@ljlkclark: Oh I do hope those stats are right– and that that 7% will come over to the “NO” side before November.
Props (no pun intended) to you Miss ST for your great idea. I’m sure the GB’s will really appreciate it!
And do PLEASE give us a sneak peek if you can– and eat some extra dim sum for me! 
Great idea!
I’m so excited that we won’t have to wait, like, weeks for pictures of the Beautiful Gingerbread Rainforest Wedding! Yay!
Great gift idea. I might just send a little to EQCA to mark the occasion this weekend…
I just had an epiphany. I’ve been reading this blog for months and always thought that “Miss GB 2.0″ was “Miss Gigabyte Two Point Oh.” An awful long name and nothing at all like the other bees, I thought. I knew she and Miss Gingerbread were planning their wedding, but it wasn’t until this moment I realized that Miss GB 2.0 ” actually meant “Miss Gingerbread Too/Two.
How do you know the Gingerbreads?
@EAN: I have known them for a little while, before I moved to California even! Good ole blogs paved the way. Before they moved to Canada, they were among my first friends in California 
Miss Sweet Tea, San Diego/New Orleans
Age and Occupation: 26, Graduate Student
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Web Monkey
Engagement Date: December 1, 2007
Wedding Date: December, 2008
Blogging Since: July 14, 2008
Venue: Small church ceremony, museum reception
About Me: I'm an East Coaster living on the West Coast, planning a wedding in the South. I teach, study and write about pop culture, race, and sexuality for a living- now if only my dream job paid! After Mr. Sweet Tea, my other loves are scuba diving, traveling, being a semi-pretentious foodie, and fighting for social justice. I can't wait to have our best friends and family together in our favorite city to
celebrate with us!
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A recent poll published today in The San Francisco Chronicle showed the measure failing with 51% opposing the ban, 42% supporting the ban, and 7% undecided (I don’t know where the missing percent is).