One of Vince’s co-workers pointed out yesterday that Vince and I might have a 6th option in April to obtain a marriage license. It’s the District of Columbia.

The Washington, DC, city council voted 11 to 2 to legalize same-sex marriage in December.

If the bill is not overturned during a mandatory 30 day congressional review, then Washington D.C. will join Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont in granting same-sex marriages. Congress has expressed little interest in intervening with the law and did not intervene when the DC City Council voted to recognize out-of-state same sex marriages in July. Without intervention from Congress or through a ballot initiative, marriage licenses will start being issued to same-sex couples in March.

We have a lot of friends there, but we’d also have to wait three days from filing before receiving a license. Considering the journey ahead, what’s three days really?