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Alexia Bazi and Denai Della Georgis are about to do

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something that until last month was forbidden in Greece.

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They're one of the country's first lesbian couples to get

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married after parliament passed a landmark bill in February allowing

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same sex couples to tie the knot. They waited

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years for this moment. I I the pair exchange

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vows with the city's mayor officiating. Mm When the

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ceremony wraps up, there are embraces and tears.

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I don't know if there are words to describe the

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feelings that I am feeling. Says Della, I

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certainly feel relief, justification and very happy. Baii

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adds there is so much love here. The pyramid

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nearly a decade ago, Della Georges proposed in 2022

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unsure how it would work, but certain about what

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she wanted to do. So I said to her

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that I don't know what's going on with Greece.

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I don't know what's going on with the AD F

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procedure that we're uh trying to have a baby.

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Um And I don't know what's gonna happen, but

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no matter what I would like to get married to

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you if you want to. And I don't know

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even we're allowed, but here's this ring talking about

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romantic acts. Yeah. Yeah. And like just

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, just so, you know, four last month's

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vote came after decades of campaigning by the LGBT community

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C I felt seen and it's not come without opposition

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. The orthodox church which has long held sway in

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socially conservative Greece is vehemently opposed. The first gay

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wedding took place in Athens last week under police watch

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and some within the LGBT community say the law does

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not go far enough. It gives LGBT couples the

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right to adopt Children, but many were hoping to

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see provisions for assisted reproduction methods and surrogacy. The

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couple says they feel lucky to be able to get

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married knowing many other couples before them could not all

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those people who fought for this. And now we're

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able to confirm with a statement that you know what

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you like, you were doing all these things.

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I mean, not for nothing. I mean,

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I'm here to confirm that this is it and you're

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right. So love wins. True love wins.

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Yeah.