According to the Austin Statesman, at just after 9am today Sarah Goodfriend and Suzanne Bryant in Travis County became the first same-sex couple married in the state of Texas:
Two Austin women were legally married Thursday morning after a Travis County judge ordered the county clerk to issue a marriage license.
Sarah Goodfriend and Suzanne Bryant, together almost 31 years, said their vows before Rabbi Kerry Baker while standing in front of the Travis County Clerk’s Office sign on Airport Boulevard.
The couple was denied a license in the same office building eight years ago. On Wednesday morning, state District Judge David Wahlberg, petitioned by a lawyer for Goodfriend and Bryant, ordered Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir to grant the couple a marriage license.
The ceremony was a mix of personal – with friends and their teenage daughters, Dawn and Ting, standing nearby – and public statement, with photos of their vows in front of the county sign.
The ruling appears to only apply to this one couple:
#TravisCounty clerk says she received a court order from a district state judge to perform this ONE #samesexmarriage
— Texas Standard (@TexasStandard) February 19, 2015
By court order Travis County Clerk issues marriage license to same sex couple. Any licenses issued to same sex couples must be court ordered
— Travis County Clerk (@TravisCoClerk) February 19, 2015
Watch below as the happy couple receives the news of the ruling.
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