On June 24, 2011, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the New York Marriage Equality Act. The act made New York the sixth and the largest state in the US to recognize same-sex marriages.

The Law amends New York's Domestic Relations Law in the following ways:

Applications for a marriage license shall be granted regardless of whether the parties are of the same or a different sex.

A marriage that is otherwise valid shall be valid regardless of whether the parties to the marriage are of the same or a different sex.

No government treatment or legal status, effect, right, benefit, privilege, protection or responsibility relating to marriage shall differ based on the parties to the marriage being of the same sex or a different sex.


Having presided over a copious amount of same-sex wedding ceremonies in New York over the years, NY Marriages has had the pleasure seeing firsthand that ineffable look on a person's face when I pronounce them as married for life when the marriage itself may not have been a distinct possibility when their lives as a couple began.


As a same-sex New York Wedding officiant, I have seen firsthand the significance in legitimizing a relationship in a legal capacity that has been long since validated within people's hearts and it is but another facet of this amazing thing we all call love.

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