Australia Votes Overwhelmingly Yes For Same Sex Marriage!!

[mike carey]

And now this, an aww shucks moment.

 

The first legal same-sex weddings were to be at the end of the 30 day notice period on 9 Jan. A couple in Melbourne have applied for and been granted a waiver of the notice period and will be married next Thursday. They had arranged their wedding eight months ago, and like quite a few couples were having the ceremony and all the related celebrations to be done without the legal part. (They intended to do the legals if and when same sex marriage was legalised.) They had guests coming from overseas, and had arranged it for December so family could stay for Christmas and importantly so one of the bride's English family could go to the cricket test between England and Australia starting on Boxing Day. (In a follow up to the radio story, apparently two other waivers have been granted.)

[TruthBTold]

They'll do anything for the English.

[LoveNDino]

First Same-Sex Couple Legally Marries In Australia

Lauren Price and Amy Laker tied the knot three weeks before marriage equality takes effect.

 

by Brandon Voss

 

The first same-sex couple to marry in Australia Saturday after receiving special permission to wed three weeks before marriage equality takes effect in the rest of the country.

 

Lauren Price and Amy Laker, who have been engaged for two years, had set December 16 as the date for their civil ceremony more than a year ago. After the Australian Parliament voted in favor of marriage equality last week, the couple appealed to their local marriage registrar to be allowed to marry on that day, as they had relatives coming in from Wales and it would be an undue financial burden to reschedule.

 

Normally, couples in Australia must wait 30 days after requesting a marriage license before any ceremony can take place. The official date same-sex couples can begin tying the knot is January 8, 2018.

 

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“We went in there and made our case, and the officials left the room to make their decision,” Laker told Daily Mail Australia. “It was the longest ten minutes of our lives—our hands were so sweaty. When she came back in and said she had good news, I just started crying.”

 

“For us being legally married is more about automatically being next of kin,” adds Price, “and also because we want children so it makes that clearer, ’This is my child’s other mother, my wife.’”

 

See more photos from the sunny Sydney ceremony below.

 

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[mike carey]

It's 12 months since Parliament passed the law allowing equal marriage. Re-reading this thread has brought tears again. I don't begrudge other countries that have legalised marriage equality but I'm still proud that we and the Irish had a popular vote that approved it so it wasn't 'unelected judges' or 'elites' who delivered it.

[Walker1]

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The Australian Ambassador to France proposes to his partner, perhaps too publicly. Perhaps not!

That is so sweet. Most marraiges don't last 11 years. They were together for 11 years and now finally are able to marry legally-that is sweet.