And just this week, elected leaders in New Mexico urged same-sex couples to apply for wedding licenses.

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To satisfy both desires, many couples end up traveling to a state that recognizes same-sex marriage and making it into a destination wedding, such as Duffy and Kathy Tucker of North Carolina, who married in Boston in June 2010.

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The British parliament is expected to consider legislation allowing same-sex marriage, but the Church of England and the Church in Wales would be prohibited from performing wedding ceremonies as long as it remains against canon law.

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They were planning a symbolic, but not legally recognized, wedding when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered city officials to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2004.

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Just as the traditional canon of wedding poses does not fit all heterosexual couples, there's a lot of variety in same-sex weddings that photographers need to plan for, Dodd said.

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