The First Gay Couple Married In Maine

“We finally feel equal and happy to live in Maine,” Steven Bridges told the Bangor Daily News after marrying Michael Snell.

Via: @alexsteed

Video available at: http://youtube.com/watch?v=SokdJXGoBjM.

Source: Knack Factory / Bangor Daily News  /  via: youtube.com

3. Meet Steven Bridges and Michael Snell, the first couple who were in line to marry at Portland City Hall as Saturday began.

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4. Here Bridges and Snell are filling out their marriage license:

Image by Kurt Graser / Knack Factory

Via: @dfarmer14

Image by Kurt Graser / Knack Factory

7. Then, they got married.

Source: Kurt Graser / Knack Factory  /  via: bourbonportlandbeerpolitics.bangordailynews.com

8. Here they are inside Portland City Hall, legally married:

Via: @SethKoenig

9. Finally, they stepped outside City Hall to press and a crowd of supporters:

Via: @ccsquirrel

10. The photographer of that top shot, Alex Steed, later tweeted about tonight’s experience:

alexsteed @alexsteed

We're on our way to process our videos and pictures. The feeling here in indescribable. Love! #yeson1 #ME4M #mepolitics bit.ly/U6CZb9

6:01 AM - 29 Dec 12

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For more great photos from tonight, check out the Bangor Daily News liveblog post on tonight’s weddings, which was covered in partnership with Steed’s Knack Factory — the source of several of the above photos.