WASHINGTON — Marriage licenses could soon look a little different in Virginia, thanks to a phone call from an upset bride-to-be.
Virginia Del. Dave Albo, R-Fairfax, says a woman called him after discovering that clerks had changed marriage licenses to read “spouse and spouse” because of the federal court decisions permitting same-sex marriage in Virginia.
She had her heart set on being listed as “bride and groom.”
“So I drafted a bill that just gives people the choice — they can do whatever they want to do; they can be spouse, they can be bride or they can be groom,” Albo says.
The bill passed both the House of Delegates and state Senate unanimously.
