As if planning a wedding during the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t hard enough, a same-sex couple ready to say I do say they were turned away by a popular wedding venue in Fuquay-Varina due to what the homophobic company calls their “strong Christian beliefs.” “Disheartening is the word I would use,” McCae Henderson, an attorney in Raleigh and groom-to-be told ABC11. “We had not had anything like this throughout the process or really in our lives.” Henderson and his fiancé, Ike Edwards, got engaged on Valentine’s Day and recently began to look for wedding venues across the Triangle.
A friend suggested the Highgrove Estate in Fuquay-Varina, an elegant white home surrounded by lush forestry and away from any city lights. “We thought it was very