After hard work, a woman from Queensland, Australia`s first same-sex marriage, married her partner before cancer died.
Jill Kindt and Jo Grant have been together for eight years, and their legal marriage has lasted only 48 days since their wedding in their garden on Dec. 15.
It was a week after same-sex marriage was legalized in Australia, and today we know it was the first same-sex marriage in the country.
Their marriage doesn`t require a 30-day waiting period because Grant has a rare, terminal cancer.
She died six weeks after marriage, January 30, 2018.
Details of the marriage, as well as the people who helped them make it possible, were mentioned today in the Queensland Congress.
Attorney General Yvette D`Ath said that the marriage between kindt and Grant completed permits, rituals and registrations within the same day after the registry was ruled to be exceptional.
Employees from the birth, death and Marriage Administration also played an important role-an employee even met with a roadside gas station and manager on his way to Brisbane and Sunshine Coast from driving to Brisbane. Deliver the necessary documents for the wedding to her hands.
"I know there were other couples getting married that weekend, for a variety of reasons. They were all the first people to get married. And the reason we`re doing this is very sad, and I`m willing to trade everything for it, so I don`t have to stand here and tell that story, "Kindt said."
Kindt and Grant held a commitment ceremony in 2013, or what they called "promise Day," and viewed each other as their spouse.
The wedding in 2017 made their marriage legal.
"it`s great, it`s really great. It`s legal. Jo hopes this will happen, and me, too, "Kindt said.
"it`s hard to say that we think we`re married, but that`s not legal."
Kindt said she and her wife thanked the people behind the scenes who had given them as much time as possible after getting legally married.
"We are flattered by the fact that so many people do not know us that what we expect can happen and give us endless joy. That`s the story, "Kindt said.
"I`m happy to tell the story for Jo, and I love to hear her name mentioned in today`s parliament."
"Jo and I have been legally married for 48 days, and I will remember."
Ms D`Ath calls it an inspiring story.
"it`s a hopeful story of reinventing Queensland into a modern, groundbreaking state that recognizes fair rights and the most basic principles-love is love," Ms. D`Ath said.
Australia`s first same-sex wedding took place on January 19, but some couples such as Kindt and Grant were exempt from marriage, allowing them to marry earlier.
Sydney-based Lauren Price and Amy Laker also exchanged vows on December 16, when their families arrived in Australia from Wales and were exempted from a one-month waiting period.
Grant and Kindt are one of the 159 same-sex couples married in Kunzhou after the legalization of same-sex marriage.
