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...Kristine M. Boehm ’08 shopped for a wedding dress at Filene’s Basement in downtown Boston, her mother back in Guatemala sent invitations for her daughter to approve. The two were preparing for Boehms’ upcoming wedding in Guatemala, an affair in which the 12 bridesmaids will hail from all over the world—Alabama, Cuba and Puerto Rico, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, and Peru. Boehm, 24, will wed Christian Móller, 32, on Sept. 6, two years after they met through mutual friends. Soon after meeting, they discovered that their...
...said, ‘Maybe.’ So he warned me that when he would propose, I would have to say yes,” she said with a laugh. They soon set a date for Aug. 2 of this year. And where will the wedding be held? “It’s going to be on that same mountain,” Godina said with pride. Careful coordination kept this couple together through college. “I got into Harvard early, and then Eric happened to pick a Boston school,” Godina said...
...walk me down the aisle?' ELLEN DEGENERES, talk-show host, to Republican presidential candidate John McCain, after he told her that while he opposes gay marriage, he wishes her every happiness. DeGeneres and partner Portia de Rossi plan to wed after California's gay-marriage ban lapses on June...
...might not take 19 years for the Supreme Court to rule this time. Unlike Massachusetts, California has no residency requirement for marriage licenses. So beginning sometime next month, gay couples from all over America will be headed to California to be wed. Most of them will return to states that won't recognize those marriages. When they begin to sue in federal court, they'll likely claim the denials violate the privileges and immunities clause of the U.S. Constitution and its promise of full faith and credit...
...couples. As I pointed out in an earlier story, more than a thousand federal laws apply to married couples, and many of them accord substantial benefits in an array of programs, from Social Security to food stamps to federal housing. Gay couples in California will now be able to wed under state law, as those in Massachusetts can, but their marriages will still be something less than what straight Californians enjoy...