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(Enlarge) On the first day that Washington recognized marriages of same-sex couples, the Rev. Lorilyn Candy Holmes, left, and the Rev. Elder Darlene Garner, right, from Laurel, walked down the aisle at the Human Rights Campaign building as they were married by the Rev. Dwayne Johnson, pastor of Metropolitan Community Church, where they both serve. (Staff photo by Matt Roth)

After being legally married last week on a historic day in Washington, two Laurel women are in the throes of planning a more traditional wedding to celebrate their union a second time.

Mexico will be the locale for the repeat proclamation of love by Darlene Garner and Lorilynn “Candy” Holmes, one of the first couples to marry March 9 under the District of Columbia’s new same-sex marriage law.

“It surprised me how liberating it felt to get married,” said Garner, who proposed to Holmes on New Year’s Eve.

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