So last week my husband and I completed something we’d started 11 years earlier — that is, we got the one thing our original marriage ceremony lacked: a marriage license.
Yes, folks, we had ourselves a San Francisco gay wedding.
Now, since we’d already had a nice big wedding, and this one was basically a formality, we kept it small and simple, and we let it get silly. The ceremony was performed by one of my oldest friends (who, it turns out, is authorized to marry people in California), dressed as the Green Lantern. Another old friend was the witness, and a friend of theirs took pictures.
I haven’t mentioned this event to much of anyone yet, because I really do think of it as just a long-delayed formality.
So anyway, there it is: we now have a little legal recognition. The marriage won’t be recognized by our home state, nor our country (not any time soon). But it is valid in California, at least for the time being (vote no on prop 8!). And it would be recognized in some other states, and countries. So that means something to me.
Anyway, I’m writing a similar storyline for Finn and Charlie. Some real elements will make their way into this story, and others will be made up. (For example, I do not know any rabbis in Oakland. Syracuse, yes, but that’s all the way across the country.)
Congrats, you guys!
Awesome getting married by Green Lantern. Did you exchange Lantern rings? (Perhaps that’s too geeky … I don’t know.
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Hey Tony, congrats
I know you’ve been married for awhile, but now you have a piece of paper. And paper as you well know, was once highly valued in the orient. Back then, it was very difficult to make a high quality piece of paper without large amounts of manual labor.
Ha! Technically we don’t have any paper yet. We have to wait for them to process it, and then we order a copy by mail. Probably it will not involve large amounts of manual labor.
We didn’t exchange rings because we were already wearing them. I kind of though we’d take them off and put them back on again, but we didn’t. So no Green Lantern rings. In fact, the green lantern himself was not wearing his ring. Long story, having to do with the fact that he got the costume for an event and had a ring that was made by a jewelry artist, who then took the ring back afterwards. Or something like that. So no Green Lantern rings at all, which as you may know, is kind of wrong. The Green Lantern minus his ring is just a guy in tights.
That is *so* awesome! I hope to get married by a superhero one day!