The crowd stood and cheered as Lauren Marie Tidwell and Sara Michelle Yarbrough walked out of a sanctuary Monday night for the first time as a married couple.

Tidwell and Yarbrough were the first same-sex couple to get a marriage license from the Oklahoma County Courthouse and they were the first couple out of 14 to be married inside the sanctuary at the Mayflower Congregational Church UCC, 3901 NW 63.

Friends and family members took pictures and video of their loved ones’ ceremonies with some wiping tears from their eyes as their loved ones walked away as married couples.

“We were just going to have a small, private ceremony with friends and family and have it be amongst us. We would know that we were married and that would be all that would matter. But that we get to include everyone in it is amazing,” Yarbrough said while one family member gave her and Tidwell a purple wedding cake.