At just past the stroke of midnight Sunday morning, it became legal for same sex couples to marry in the State of New York, and hundreds of couples raced to be among the first to tie the knot.
Over 800 couples applied for licenses to be used Sunday in New York City alone, more than the city clerks could process.
On June 24 the New York state senate voted 33 to 29 in favor of legalizing gay marriage and the Governor signed it into law that night, with it going into effect July 24.
New York follows Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington D.C. in making same sex marriage legal.