Kate & Claire's Gorgeous New Orleans Popp Fountain Same-Sex Marriage

Checkout the highlights from Kate & Claire’s gorgeous New Orleans Popp Fountain same-sex marriage New Orleans wedding and their fairy tale love story! This wedding was featured in Bridal Musings, so be sure to check it out there as well.

“How the story began”

Kate & Claire met on OkCupid and made their first date at the Ardesia Wine Bar in December 2013. Ever since that first date, the two never checked OkCupid again. From there on the love story began. Their first trip together was in New Orleans in April of 2014, to attend one of Kates friends’ weddings at the Popp Fountain. Kate & Claire are grateful that the law on gay marriage was passed and the nation wide right to marry will be read at the ceremony. Side note, this was such a powerful moment in the ceremony. It was beautiful, powerful, and touched everyone’s heart!

“The Proposal Story”

They each proposed to each other; so cute!!! Kate proposed to Claire on January 12, 2018 in the same cabin in the Hudson Valley where the couple said “I love you” for the first time. In Kate’s words, “After tracking down the same cabin we rented years prior, I knew I had to come up with an excuse to get Claire upstate for the weekend. I told her I had a deposition upstate, and that she should meet me in Rhine beck by train afterwork. That way, I had all day to drive up to the Hudson Valley and set up the house before she arrived. I hung dozens of photos of us around the house, and placed roses everywhere. After picking Claire up from the train station, and nervously going out to dinner, I took her back to the house where I proposed in the exact spot where we said “I love you” for the first time.

Claire “counter-proposed” a couple of months later, on April 14, 2018. In Claire’s words,“Despite my questionable cooking skills, I made dinner for Kate. I had her friends trick her into going out for drinks and in the hour she was gone, I ran across our DUMBO, Brooklyn neighborhood and purchased flowers, food and wine, set up clues around the house, made dinner and set up a beautiful table on the roof. The clues led her to the roof, and I got down on one knee and said, “Will you marry me, also?” with the beautiful Manhattan Bridge behind me. I had left a key for her friends to sneak into our apartment downstairs as a final surprise when she opened the door”. The April 6, 2019 wedding will be the first legally recognized event to unite Kate & Claire as a couple. For avoidance of doubt, they have not been married, nor are the two in a civil union. They have also never had any non-legally recognized ceremony/event of any kind.

Kate & Claire’s Gorgeous New Orleans Popp Fountain Same-Sex Marriage was certainly one for the books! Their relationship is one of a kind and so was their family and friends.