Editor
I married my wife last October in a backyard wedding that my parents hosted and covered for $5,000. My wife’s mother gave us an equivalent honeymoon fund to fly us to France, and our guests were also generous, giving us — to our surprise — a few thousand dollars to start our new lives.
Of course, I knew people were given money for their weddings, but this seemed like an abstract, heterosexual concept to me: free money, for loving…
