A British couple have accidentally held the first same-sex wedding ceremony in the Faroe Islands—a self-governed archipelago that’s part of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Leslie Travers and Richard McBride travelled to the remote location to hold a low-key ceremony, only to find that they were inadvertently becoming part of the Islands’ history, the Copenhagen Post .
“We came here to have a quiet marriage ceremony, it just so happened that we're the first same sex couple to be married in the Faroe Islands,” Travers wrote on Facebook.
“Good on this beautiful place to recognise marriage equality. Beautiful day in a fantastic country with wonderful people.”
The Faroe Islands—which has a population of just 50,000— legalised same-sex marriage on July 1 but no local gay couples have gotten around to tying the knot just yet.
The couple—who have been together for 16 years—married at the local court house in a ceremony attended by the Torshavn mayor, Annika Olsen.
