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1. 2008 06 17 Wedding

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2008 06 17 Wedding

Dear Friends and Family,

Our wedding yesterday was documented by the Oakland Tribune.

We enjoyed getting married ... again.

It really was incredible getting married legally for the first time in the United States!

Please feel free to share this video-link with others.

If you have the time to send a note to the photographer, Jane Tyska, info below, to thank her, that would be great.

Love,

Michael and Randy

There are also some still pictures at the article below:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_9617219

We decided to register with EQCA, Equality California, which is doing great work and helping to make sure our wedding stays legal past November. Any support to their efforts would be greatly appreciated!

The link is: http://www.eqca.org/site/pp.asp?c=kuLRJ9MRKrH&b=4183811

Just look for our listing under “Randy Sweringen and Michael Mansfield.”

(Note: Our names most likely will show up on Wednesday or Thursday…sorry for the delay.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Tyska, Jane
Sent: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 1:47 am
Subject: thanks again!

Wow, what a pleasure it was to meet you both and film your wedding today. It was a beautiful event and you are both the nicest people! I don't have the exact link yet, but you can find the video in the player in the lower left-hand corner of the page below. From within the player you can send to friends, link to, or embed the code for the video in a homepage.

http://www.insidebayarea.com

I normally shoot and edit 2-3 minute videos, but so much unfolded that this one was a little over 4 minutes...still not much for such a big day!

I appreciate all your help and wish you both all the best!

Regards,

Jane

Jane Tyska, Multimedia Reporter/Photojournalist
The Oakland Tribune, 7677 Oakport Street, Suite 950, Oakland, CA 94621 510-208-6438
http://www.insidebayarea.com

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This was a post in the Comments section of the NYTimes article on the
weddings this week...

• 73. June 17th, 2008 5:13 pm
I just retired after serving 26 years in the U.S. Marine Corps. My partner of 12 years is currently an active duty marine. We are looking forward for his retirement so we can get married in California. We are both natives of the San Diego and we will celebrate with our friends and family. I worry that inviting our marine friends might put an
unwanted light if they attend our wedding. An old salty gunnery sergeant marine friend of ours asked, "What will the Marine Corps do if I attend your gay wedding? Will they make me shave my head and go back to Iraq for a 4th time?" There you go….courage! — Posted by Daniel

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