On the first Monday in December, SAS Airlines, together with VisitSweden, hosted a Manhattan wedding and holiday reception at Ramscale West Village Lofts in Manhattan's West Village - to toast to the three lucky LGBT winning couples who were the recent winners of the SAS/Visit Sweden wedding giveaway.

On a flight 38,000 feet in the air, two LGBT European couples were married on their way to a honeymoon in the States (New York! West Hollywood!), while the lucky winning American gay couple took their wedding vows at Sweden's IceHotel, nearly two hundred miles above the Arctic Circle.

Hosted by Magnus Lindbergh, Marketing Manager of VisitSweden, the extremely romantic winter wonderland evening included sweets from Dufflet and flowers by Geranium Lake, as well as jewelry from Efva Attling, the celebrated Swedish jeweler whose stunning wedding rings adorned the fingers of all three happy couples.

Guests were serenaded by a white-robed Swedish children's choir led by Saint Lucia wearing a crown of candles - so sweetly that even the customarily hardboiled Sherry Vine was seen wiping away a tear (before tearing into another salted caramel cupcake...) DJ Steve Travolta worked the crowd with a collection of "Love Is In the Air" disco standards. Seen: OUT editor-in-chief Aaron Hicklin, Swedish songbird Eva Dahlgren - and a roomful of gorgeous Swedes.

What better way to commence the holiday season than with LGBT love and happiness!