Austrian women celebrate country's first same-sex marriage
It is possible from Jan. 1, 2019
01 January, 16:09Public broadcaster ORF reported Tuesday that Nicole Kopaunik and Daniela Paier wed in a ceremony in Velden, southern Austria, shortly after midnight Tuesday. The couple, both 37, had reportedly been engaged for four years.
Austria's constitutional court ruled in 2017 that same-sex couples should have the right to marry from Jan. 1, 2019.
Previously, same-sex couples could only enter into a registered partnership that granted fewer rights than marriage. Austria's current governing parties, the People's Party and the Freedom Party, had strongly opposed granting same-sex couples the right to marry, but said they would respect the court's ruling. (AP-ANSA).