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South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a rising star in the Democratic party, will marry his partner Chasten Glezman on Saturday, as the city's LGBT Pride week comes to an end.

The 36-year-old also will be notably missing from the Indiana Democratic Party State Convention, which is the same day in Indianapolis.

The couple is getting married at The Cathedral of Saint James Episcopal church at 4 p.m. Saturday. The ceremony will be carried on the church's live stream. (Search "St. James South Bend" at youtube.com.)

Buttigieg, who became South Bend's mayor in 2012, is one of the most notable members of the state's Democratic party and has been making national headlines as a potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. He was one of nine potential candidates to meet with Barack Obama in recent months, regarding the future of the Democratic party.

He's been featured in profiles from top political publications, such as Politico, and lost a bid to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 2017.

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In 2016, he was chairman of the state convention, making his absence in the 2018 convention more noticeable.

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The military veteran came out as gay in a 2015 essay in the South Bend Tribune, and got engaged to his boyfriend this past December.

"Like most people, I would like to get married one day and eventually raise a family," he wrote in 2015. "I hope that when my children are old enough to understand politics, they will be puzzled that someone like me revealing he is gay was ever considered to be newsworthy."

His wedding ceremony is exactly one week after state Republicans opted to keep language specifically praising marriage between a man and a woman in the party platform.

Buttigieg responded to the GOP's decision on Twitter: "Quick question for @indgop after today’s platform vote against marriage equality: Do you propose that our marriages be broken up? Or just stripped of legal protection?"