Joie de Vivre Hotels welcome gay weddings, donate to fight proposed ban

Joie de Vivre Hotels, which runs five boutique hotels in the Silicon Valley and Santa Cruz region, is jumping on the same-sex wedding bandwagon - and adding its own socially conscious twist. Its area hotels - which include San Jose's Hotel Montgomery - are encouraging LGBT couples to book rooms with them for their weddings. But to help ensure those new nuptial rights stay intact, Joie de Vivre plans to donate 10 percent of revenue from blocks of rooms reserved for those weddings to either the Human Rights Campaign or Equality Marriage USA, which are both opposing a November ballot measure that would ban gay marriage in California. Full story...