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Our backyard lesbian wedding in a snowstorm during a pandemic on Groundhog’s Day
So we did a thing on Groundhog’s Day …
Yes, Laura and I were married this afternoon in our backyard in the middle of the winter (and a snowstorm) during a pandemic. We had three friends witness and our officiant present. Our officiant, Anne, is a Pagan priestess and also a reverend. And a friend, so that’s four friends. Plus, oh Mayor Peduto came by to help officiate after we discovered a very weird loophole in state law around officiants, but we’ll save that story for another day. Lt. Governor John Fetterman and local magistrate Derwin Rushing also offered to help so that’s a political bloggers wedding for you. The City Paper sent their photographer. Definitely a political bloggers wedding.
Thank you to Anne, Sarah, Sarah, Kate, Mayor Peduto, and Jared for helping us pull this off.
Our love story started nearly 18 years ago in a very meet-cute moment at the LGBTQ Community Center in Pittsburgh where we both attended a woman’s discussion group. The group didn’t last a month, but — we did! Two years later, we moved in together and have walked through life hand-in-hand ever since.
