Utah Gay Marriage

It has been a busy few days in Utah. After a federal judge ruled Utah's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional last Friday, couples from around the area spent the weekend unsuccessfully chasing rumors about open city clerk's offices. By Monday morning, the county office in Ogden was scheduled to open at 8AM and the state attorney generals office was presenting they case for a stay on gay marriages at 9AM. I shot a fair amount of photos and video throughout the day, but here are a few of the highlights.

Gage Church, left, and Tim Sharp kiss at the Hampton Inn in Ogden after becoming the first gay couple to be legal married in Weber County on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. Over 60 couples were married in hallways and side rooms of the hotel as they tried to beat a possible stay on the ruling to allow gay same-sex marriage in Utah. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Cody Carter, right, and his husband, Darren Hayes, center, get married in the hallway of the Hampton Inn in Ogden while another couple is married at the top of the stairs on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. Over 60 couples were married in hallways and side rooms of the hotel in a two hour window as they tried to beat a possible stay on the ruling to allow same-sex marriage in Utah. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Hundreds of people line up outside of the county clerk's office in the Weber Center on Monday morning, Dec. 23, 2013, the first day that Weber County began accepting applications for same-sex marriage licenses. Couples began lining up outside the building at 10pm on Sunday night due to concern that the state might only issue licenses for one hour before a possible stay could be placed on the ruling that allowed same-sex marriage. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Alicia Miller, left, and Alishe Argyle are married at the Hampton Inn in Ogden by Father Robert Trujillo of the Glory to God Old Catholic Church on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. Father Trujillo was one of several volunteer ministers who performed over 60 same-sex marriages at the hotel that morning. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Tim Sharp, left, and Gage Church apply for their marriage license at the Weber County Clerk's Office in Ogden on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. Sharp and Gage were the first gay couple to be legally married in Weber County. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Dennis Leavitt signs a marriage license after performing a marriage between two men in the hallway of the Hampton Inn in Ogden on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. Over 60 couples were married in hallways and side rooms of the hotel in a two hour window as they tried to beat a possible stay on the ruling to allow same-sex marriage in Utah. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Patrick Freideman, left, and his soon-to-be husband Spencer Freideman leave the county building behind them and cross Washington Blvd. in Ogden as they head towards the Hampton Inn on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. As wedding applications were given out at the county clerk's office, ceremonies were held in the hotel across the street in order to accommodate the more than 60 couples getting married in two hours. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Trever Olsen, center, marries his husband Wayne Elwood, left, in the hallway of the Hampton Inn in Ogden on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. The couple's minister, Gage Church, right, was married to his husband just an hour before in the same spot. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner) 

An official Weber County marriage license sits in a make-shift wedding chapel at the Hampton Inn in Ogden on Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. Gay and lesbian couples began lining up outside the county building on Sunday night, ten hours before the offices opened. Previous attempts to get licenses on Friday and Saturday were unsuccessful. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

See the rest of the photos from the day here.