Wedding bells ring at art museum steps for same-sex couple

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

The clock struck midnight at the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Ashley Wilson and partner Lindsay Vandermay – now Wilson – were ready. They would be the first same-sex couple to get married in Philadelphia, if not the entire commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

A glow radiated around them and the estimated 30 people that surrounded the soon-to-be wives.

A similar glow hung directly behind them - the orange glow of the clock atop City Hall where the two obtained a marriage license on Tuesday.

Lindsay and Ashley Wilson, both 29 of Fairmount, were one of the first couples to obtain their marriage license after U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III made the decision to strike down Pennsylvania’s 1996 ban on same-sex marriages.




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