While gay people are busy registering to be legally married couples throughout the United States, a Chinese lesbian couple decided that it's about time to push forward the LGBT rights conversation in China.

But first, they decided, they wanted to advance their own relationship. Six days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Teresa Xu, left, and Li Tingting, right, held an informal ceremony in Beijing, the capital of China.

This is them kissing after getting their hair and makeup done in a beauty salon before the ceremony, as salon staffers snap photos.

Their union is not official as far as the government is concerned, though.

Same-sex marriage is not legal in China. Homosexuality was just decriminalized in 1997 and removed from the nation's official list of mental illnesses in 2001. The LGBT rights movement is still a new notion in China; gay couples often hide their sexual orientation in front of family and colleagues.

But the Chinese government is allowing the conversation about the U.S.' new acceptance of marriage equality to continue so far. State media and social media widely discussed whether Confucius would allow same-sex marriage to happen in ancient China, after Justice Kennedy cited him in the marriage equality ruling. However, very few media outlets have posted about this wedding on Weibo, China's popular microblogging site.