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The fifth time is the charm as one Advocate.com blogger and his partner prepare to get married in West Hollywood.
June 17, 2008, was the first day when same-sex couples all over California could go get their marriage licenses and even wed if they so chose.
In the course of 13 years of couplehood, my partner, Dave, and I have had a purely ceremonial wedding complete with gifts, suits, and an open bar; a West Hollywood domestic partnership; a California domestic partnership; and one of those San Francisco '04 marriage licenses that had the shelf life of an overripe avocado.
Bridezilla? Advocate columnist Dave White waves at his husband.
Now that we're at ceremony number five, this whole marriage thing has become a slightly more glamorous form of paperwork -- like getting a fishing license, only with friends and family wishing you well. Off we went to where the action was in West Hollywood, namely the auditorium by the tennis courts. Major bedlam was expected for these first few days of legal queer nuptials, so rather than have the hordes gather at City Hall, the West Hollywood politicos decided to take the whole thing off-site.
Like the DMV, only better haircuts
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Duralde writes the Mr. Sardonic blog on Advocate.com. Photography by Alonso Duralde, Dave White, and common strangers on the street whom they talked into using their camera.