Kirsten Ott Palladino - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

Kirsten Ott Palladino is the editorial director and founder of EquallyWed.com, the nation’s premier online LGBTQ+ wedding magazine. She also is one of the founders and the editor in chief of Atlanta Gay Weddings, an annual printed guide for gay and lesbian couples in Atlanta, Ga. In 2012, Palladino launched National Marriage Equality Day, which caught the attention of national media such as NPR, ABC News and The Los Angeles Times, as well as celebrities, including Lance Bass and Charlize Theron. An award-winning journalist and editor, Palladino has enjoyed having her work appear in esteemed magazines, newspapers and websites. For more than 20 years, she’s covered social justice, books, LGBTQ+ rights, weddings, art, travel, restaurants, fashion, beauty, celebrities, profiles and music. She’s been a recurrent guest on CNN discussing marriage equality and LGBTQ+ weddings. After facing discrimination when planning their own nuptials and finding a major lack of LGBTQ+ couples in mainstream bridal and wedding magazines, Kirsten and her wife, Maria Palladino, launched EquallyWed.com, which provides the LGBTQ+ community with wedding-planning inspiration, photo galleries, real weddings, a marketplace of LGBTQ+ inclusive and affirming wedding vendors across the U.S., Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean, marriage-equality news, and vetted honeymoon destinations—all on an editorially based multimedia platform. The couple has been the subject of a lengthy feature in The New York Times, as well as in multiple articles across the country, for their pioneering work in raising the level of equality in the way gay and lesbian weddings are viewed in this country. During the Equally Wed planning phase, Kirsten and Maria Palladino were the first lesbians to have their wedding featured in a national consumer bridal magazine in Get Married Magazine’s debut fall 2009 issue. Kirsten’s expertise has been sought out by The New York Times, CNN, CNN International, Politico.com, NPR, Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times. Kirsten is the author of Equally Wed: The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your LGBTQ+ Wedding (Seal Press), which is available wherever books are sold.

Content

Total articles 108

• These Arkansas brides incorporated both Filipino and Australian traditions into their fall wedding

  By Kirsten Ott Palladino Verified

  Sep. 07, 2023

• This Arizona ranch wedding featured southwestern vibes, a custom branding iron and leather signage

  By Kirsten Ott Palladino Verified

  Aug. 15, 2023

• We're obsessed with DeShanna and Jillian Michaels' destination in Venice, Italy

  By Kirsten Ott Palladino Verified

  Jun. 29, 2023

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Company Info

Equally Wed

Equally Wed is the world's first modern LGBTQ+ wedding resource. Filling a vast void, Equally Wed magazine offers LGBTQ+ couples an extensive, trustworthy and fashionable guide of inspiration, ideas and trends for planning their engagements, weddings and honeymoons, as well as their happily ever after. EquallyWed.com offers engaged couples a robust suite of free LGBTQ+ focused wedding planning tools and a directory of LGBTQ+ inclusive wedding vendors and venues. Equally Wed has been featured by The New York Times, CNN, CNN International, NPR, ABC News, The Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The Knot, AOL'S Aisle Dash, Out Magazine, The Advocate Magazine, Curve Magazine, Brides Magazine and many more. WEBSITE: http://www.equallywed.com TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/equallywed FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/equallywedmagazine PINTEREST: http://www.pinterest.com/equallywed Cover photo by Willa Kveta