San Francisco plaintiffs in Prop. 8 ruling are first couple to wed after appellate action.

A federal appeals court Friday afternoon authorized the resumption of same-sex marriages in California, two days after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the invalidation of Proposition 8.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay of an injunction that ordered state officials to stop enforcing the voter-passed initiative, which a lower court declared unconstitutional in 2010.
After Wednesday's Supreme Court decision, the court initially said it had up to 25 days to act. Gov. Jerry Brown immediately directed that the state's 58 counties should resume issuing marriage licences to same-sex couples as soon as the 9th Circuit acted.
In San Francisco, where the appellate court is located, the first same-sex marriage following the action was scheduled Friday for 4:45 p.m. PT (7:45 p.m. ET), local media reported. One of the two couples who challenged Prop. 8, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, were first on the list to receive a license, which was issued at 4:15 p.m., according to news reports.
Attorney General Kamala Harris went to City Hall to perform the nuptials.
"About to marry the #Prop8 plaintiffs Kristin Perry and Sandra Stier. Wedding bells are ringing!" tweeted Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney.
After Harris said, "I now pro ounce you spouses for life," the hastily assembled crowd burst into raucous cheers.
The other couple in the landmark lawsuit, Paul Katami and Jeffrey Zarrillo, are set to be married in Los Angeles at 6 p.m. PT (9 p.m. ET).
The wedding bells first rang in February 2004, when then-mayor Gavin Newsom ordered that marriage licences be issued to same sex couples. In the soaring, ornate rotunda of City Hall, Newsom, now the state's lieutenant governor, performed the first same-sex marriage, and nearly 4,000 same-sex couples were wed until the California Supreme Court halted and invalidated the marriages a month later.
In May 2008, the same court ruled that gays had the right to marry, but six months later California voters approved Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that defined marriage as being only between a man and a woman.
The state's high court subsequently ruled the initiative to be valid, but said an estimated 18,000 same-sex marriages that occurred before the election were still valid.

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Same-sex marriages resume in Calif.