"Marriage is at once a deeply personal commitment to another human being and a highly public celebration of the ideals of mutuality, companionship, intimacy, fidelity, and family. Because it fulfills the yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, marriage is an esteemed institution and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life's momentous acts of self-definition."
- Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, writing for the majority, Goodridge v. Dept. Public Health, Mass. Supreme Judicial Court (Nov. 18, 2003)

It's no small detail that we are marrying in Massachusetts, our home for the last few years, and one of the only states sane enough to offer same sex marriages. We're at the point in our lives where the rights afforded a couple by marriage have become relevant to our daily lives, and where we've seen friends and family members take every available option for couplehood seriously; from cohabitation, to home ownership, to domestic partnership, to engagement, to marriage, and more. We have the option to marry, and while we wish to take it and celebrate it, we wish that others didn't have to find alternate solutions, when marriage also seems the most logical course to them. We look forward to a day when all couples can receive full legal & social recognition of their mutual commitments and the families they have created together.

We are outraged that who-can-marry-whom has been, and continues to be, such a divisive topic in American discourse. In honor of our own commitment, and in honor of the relationships of our friends and our families, we have made a donation to The Freedom to Marry Project.

If you want to know more about the efforts to extend the Freedom to Marry to all people, and/or to support these efforts, please click on one of the links below:
Marriage Equality USA
Freedom to Marry
Human Rights Campaign's Million for Marriage Petition