First couple wed took place at the city clerk’s office in New York City under the newly enacted law for same-sex marriage.
Michael McSweeney officially initiated the first wedding ceremony to Phyllis Siegal 76-year-old and Connie Kopelov 84-year-old in a chapel located in the city clerk’s office. The ceremony was surrounded with multitude of spectators cheering while the couple exchanged their vows on Sunday.
More than 23-years they lived together in New York City until the newly enacted state’s law legalizing same-sex marriage.
After the ceremony the couple left the chapel and Kopelov has approached the reporter to share their wonderful experienced.
“It was so amazing,” explained Kopelov. “I cannot explain the happiness we shared now that we are legally married,” she said.
After the wedding of the first same-sex couples, the city clerk office received more than 2,600 letters of requests for marriage licenses from the same-sex couples.
Under the new enacted state’s law, the application for marriage license was noticeably changed to “Spouse A and Spouse B” from the original form “Groom and Bride.”
But according to the statement from the office, they admitted that they could not facilitate all requests.
