A remote Arctic town has hosted Alaska’s first ever legal same-sex marriage.

In an outpost that cannot be reached by road, a loving lesbian couple have been allowed to wed three days before their ceremony could technically be held.

Kristine Hilderbrand, 30 and Sarah Ellis, 34, obtained their marriage license on Monday afternoon. As they were unable to have their friends and family fly out to them later that week, magistrate Mary Treiber waivered the three-day waiting period.

‘The fact that we’re in a relationship together and have been for the last six years in this town, people have just been very accepting and it is just what it is,’ Hilderbrand said, as reported by the AP.

‘It’s been such a non-issue here for so long that we were really more focused on getting married and getting to spend the rest of our lives together. We really weren’t concerned about all the politics.’

Kelly Cahoon, 28, and Bernice Oyagak, 27, was also allowed to marry officially on Monday. They were leaving Barrow to Anchorage that night, and they didn’t want to marry in the city, the Alaska Dispatch News reported.

On Sunday (12 October), US District Judge Timothy Burgess ruled the state’s ban violated the equal protection guarantees of the Constitution.