Texas' New Wedding Capital Greets Gay Couples
When Austinites Tavanya Wright and Amber Gregg got engaged last year, the two women weren't expecting to be able to get legally married in Texas.
Now that the Supreme Court has legalized same-sex marriage, their ceremony in October will be recognized by the state. It will take place in Dripping Springs, which state lawmakers recently named the wedding capital of Texas.
"It was all meant to come together," said Wright, 26, who met Gregg, also 26, eight years ago.
Some of the lawmakers who designated the city as the state's wedding capital may not have had in mind weddings like the Wright-Gregg union. State Rep. Jason Isaac, R-Dripping Springs, the measure's author, was one of 62 state lawmakers, in addition to Gov. Greg Abbott, who signed a court brief in 2014 calling on a U.S. appellate court to uphold the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/07/11/wedding-capital-texas-welcomes-new-couples/
Cross-posted in the LGBT Group.
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