We all love a wedding video, but the problem with gay weddings in the US is they are all too recent. Where’s the questionable hair? The odd outfits?

Back in Minnesota 1971, a gay couple was believed to have been the first to be legally wed in the United States.

While Jack Baker and Michael McConnell received a marriage license and were legally wed, state courts soon declared their union illegal.

The couple took their case to the Minnesota Supreme Court for recognition of their marriage, but eventually lost.

CBS Minnesota revealed the rare video of the 1971 wedding, showing Baker and McConnell exchanging rings and sharing their first kiss as husband and husband in front of a Methodist minister.

Pastor Roger Lynn, who married the couple more than 40 years ago, said: ‘That [kiss] was the moment when I really felt it viscerally, like, “Oh, this is different”.’

And now, 42 years later, Minnesota gay couples will be able to officially and legally wed on 1 August.

It follows the historic decisions the Supreme Court made in favor of marriage equality; striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8.

Check out the wedding video below: