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Kathryn Hamm is an author on same-sex weddings, president of GayWeddings.com, and an Education Expert for WeddingWire. ==Life and career== Hamm was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. After graduating from Greenhill School in Addison, Texas, Hamm attended Princeton University where, as a freshman, she was the leading seasonal scorer for the University women's soccer team.〔 She graduated from Princeton with a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) in Psychology and then received an Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) from Catholic University. She also served as an educator and school administrator in the Washington, D.C. area. In 1999, Hamm's mother Gretchen began a business out of frustration at the lack of suitable wedding accessories available as Hamm planned a commitment ceremony with her female partner. The business, which eventually was called Gayweddings.com, included offering "femme" or "butch" thank-you cards and fancy wedding proclamations.〔 At the beginning of the business, venders at stationery shows "would just look at her like she was crazy" but a few years later the vendors showed more interest in helping out. Near the end of 2006, Hamm headed the business Gretchen started to allow her mother to increase her lobbying efforts for equal rights for same-sex couples.〔 Hamm began holding 'Gay Weddings 101' wedding-planning seminars in areas such as Chicago, Boston, and Washington D.C.〔 During an interview at the end of 2006, the Virginia based wedding consultant noted, "For the longest time, there was so much shame and privacy around it that people didn't really give themselves permission to have ceremonies like this. ... The market is growing as the headlines remain out there." In 2010, while raising a 3-year-old son with her partner Amy in Arlington County, Hamm participated in Event Emissary of the District, a planned mass wedding on March 20th meant to attract 400 gay couples. The event was meant to show a "shoulder to shoulder" solidarity for same-sex weddings in a 1,000 person ballroom at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, which is situated between the White House and the United States Capitol. However, only 15 couples registered for the event, which Hamm attributed to local gay weddings already being booked elsewhere for March 20th and two other same-sex fund raisers being held in the area on that date.〔 At the end of the year, Hamm formed a business partnership with American singer-songwriter Catie Curtis to serve as a wedding officiate for GayWeddings.com and help same-sex couples design their own ceremonies. In 2013, with photographer Thea Dodds, she co-authored ''Capturing Love: The Art of Lesbian and Gay Wedding Photography'' which was reviewed by Human Rights Campaign,〔 Book review.〕 National Public Radio,〔 Book review.〕 ''Boston Globe'',〔 Book review.〕 ''Good Morning America'',〔 Talk Radio News Service,〔 Book review.〕 KNPR, ''Baltimore Sun'', ''Echomag.com''. ''Good Morning America'' called the book a "groundbreaking guide" to same sex marriage,〔 and Human Rights Campaign said Hamm was a "wedding innovator".〔 In May 2013, the book was picked up by Amphoto Books (an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group) and revised and expanded for release as ''The New Art of Capturing Love: The Essential Guide to Lesbian & Gay Wedding Photography ''on May 6, 2014.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathryn Hamm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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