CARRICKFERGUS, United Kingdom - A Belfast couple on Tuesday made history by becoming the first same-sex couple to get married in Northern Ireland, following a landmark change in the law last year.
"We are literally living the dream, it's incredible," Edwards, a waitress from Brighton on the British mainland, told the domestic Press Association news agency shortly after the service.Her new wife, Peoples, a senior care worker from Belfast, added:"We fought so long and hard for this opportunity to be seen as equal and now we are here and it's just amazing."
London spent the intervening months drawing up new regulations to apply to the marriages and partnerships - with the first permitted to happen this week. But when they learned of the imminent law change, they opted to get married as soon as it was possible.