British actress Jemima Kirke, who stars alongside friend Lena Durham in the Emmy award-winning sitcom Girls, has appeared in a lesbian wedding advert.

The London-born actress is seen pictured kissing another woman as part of the bridal company Stone Fox Bride’s spring campaign, SheWired reports.

Both brides appear in the campaign wearing floor-length white wedding dresses described as ‘not puffy or fluffy’ on the alternative bridal company’s website.

An American gay couple have been given thousands of dollars for their dream wedding.

Jenna Eagleton, and partner Caroline Currie, took part in Real Maine Weddings magazine's third annual competition in the hope of winning the $100k (€77k)  prize.

Contestants were asked to make a video saying why they deserve to win the prize which will buy them a reception, wedding dress, tuxedos, rings, flowers and a limousine service.

An elderly gay couple, who have gathered 12,000 fans on China's most popular microblogging site Weibo, held a wedding ceremony in Beijing yesterday.

One of the men wore a wedding dress and the couple shared traditional shots of Chinese spirit bajiu, Daqi.com reports. They posted on Weibo yesterday that the wedding went smoothly, with many friends from the internet coming to bless them.

Yesterday (1 Dec.) Penelope Gnesin and Brenda Sue Fulton were the first gay couple to be married in Cadet Chapel, the iconic building on the campus of the US Military Academy.

As reported by the Huffington Post, Fulton is a graduate of the academy (located in West Point, NY). The New Jersey couple have been together for 17 years. Having a ceremony in their home state was their first choice but gay nuptials are not legal in New Jersey.

A Hollywood power couple have thrown a wedding in Los Angeles which makes Elton John's nuptials look conventional.

Riding a white 'unicorn' to Madonna's Like A Virgin, Cougar Town producer Danny Rose and lawyer husband Aaron Rosenberg arrived at their wedding reception in camp over-the-top style.

The happy couple's loyal steed was transformed into the mythical beast by sticking a horn on its head and was dressed in a white robe with a star of David printed on it to represent their religion.

But the 'Jew-nicorn' wasn't the only surprise at the wedding.

China’s Fujian province has seen its first ever public gay wedding between two young men, who had already made history by getting engaged in nearby Guangdong province.

Lu Zhong and Liu Wangqiang, 24 and 20 respectively, wowed their hometown of Ningde on Tuesday (2 Oct), a day after the national day, as their cascade of wedding cars paraded the city’s roads and parks and showcased their love.

The wedding ceremony of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and actress Portia de Rossi made the cover of People magazine  - a first for a same-sex couple - when it took place four years ago today (16 August).

A couple since 2004, DeGeneres and de Rossi took their vows during a four-month period when same-sex marriages were legal in the state of California before the passage of Proposition 8.

'Happy 4th anniversary to my beautiful wife, Portia,' DeGeneres tweeted. 'This has been the best 4 years of my life.'

The gay Malaysian pastor who held the first publicized gay wedding reception in the country has spoken back to the homophobic comments a government minister made on Saturday.

Minister for Islamic Affairs Jamil Khir said of Reverend O Young Wen Feng (also known as Ngeo Boon Lin) and Phineas Newborn III's wedding celebration: ‘the reception portrayed Malaysia society as confused. It’s clear their motive was to fight for gay rights.’

A gay couple have released a video of their wedding in New York that was shown at the first public same-sex marriage celebration in Malaysia.

Reverend O Young Wen Feng (also known as Ngeo Boon Lin) and Phineas Newborn III celebrated their marriage at a Chinese banquet hall in Kuala Lumpur for 250 guests on Saturday.

Gay marriage has boosted New York City's economy by $259 million in the past year and generated $16 million in city revenues, according to a study released Tuesday (24 July).

NYC & Company and the City Clerk’s Office report that since the Marriage Equality Act went into effect exactly a year ago, 67 percent of same-sex couples held wedding receptions at restaurants, homes, hotels or catering halls in the five boroughs, with 296,500 guests and 201,600 of them traveling from outside of the City.

A lesbian couple from Glasgow said ‘I do’ to gay marriage during a mock wedding outside the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh.

Jaye and Ruth Richards-Hill symbolically tied the knot today at Holyrood to call for the legalization of same-sex marriage, as well as allow religious organizations to hold ceremonies if they want to.

Scotland’s ministers will announce the results of a consultation this month, with a finalized bill likely to appear by 2013.