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“Every time I think about it I cry, it means I get to marry the woman I love, you are gonna be able to have a marriage license, so you are gonna be able to be a wedded couple. There’s some legitimacy now.”

A historic moment in California, for Tracy and Tiffany who are about to walk down the aisle together, oh, look at this, and for Robin and Dian, who fought for decades for the right of same-sex couples to marry.

“It’s not just about each other, it’s said it’s opened this entire possibility for every gay kid that’s growing up today, that they can grow up, and they can have marriage, and they can have families, and they can have acceptance. I mean it’s, it’s just incredibly important to us.”

A monumental occasion for the couples and an unexpected boom for California’s economy

“I would say the total spending that will be generated by same-sex weddings is well over a billion dollars in the next three years.”

A billions dollars and 2,100 new jobs over the next three years according to a study by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, wedding planner Marcia Vidal says it couldn’t have come at a better time.

“Are you seeing economic hard times, are things rather soft for people in your industry right now?”

“Actually it is, we are definitely seeing a slowdown, and we’re also seeing a forecast of Weddings being postponed even out to 2010 and 11.”

Tiffany and Tracy are learning weddings are big business.

“You discover that, yes you know, you wanna have it at a place, and you wanna have someone officiating for you, oh, and we have to have it catered, oh and, by the way, don’t we want flowers?”

Their budget about 40,000 dollars

“Cause' we are doing 40,000 just ourselves. And you count probably, 80 guests coming in from out of the state, staying for at least 3 nights in hotels, car rentals, eating out, tourist attractions.”

“We don’t want to be like two brides or two grooms”, Baker Tom Rosa says his business has already tripled, thanks to customers like Dian and Robin.

“I think price for most gays and lesbians will not be an object, because it’s something they never expected, never expected in all of their life, and so the Californian Gold Rush is on.”

“I now pronounce you spouses for life”, Dian and Robin became the first same-sex couple to officially tie the knot in southern California. And now, among the first to say, it helped the state along the way.