STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
June 16, 2008--Shelly Bailes, left, and Ellen Pontac, right, hold each other during their wedding ceremony held at the Yolo County Clerk/Recorder's office in Woodland, Calif. Bailes and Pontac were the first gay couple to wed in Yolo County after a May 15th decision by the California Supreme Court to overturn a 2000 ballot initiative banning same sex marriages.
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
"We have breaking news! We're gonna get married!" If you call the Davis, Calif., home of Shelly Bailes, 67, and Ellen Pontac, 66, today, that's the voice mail recording you'll hear. But if you wait until this evening, you'll get a greeting that includes two words both women have waited more than three decades to say: "My wife." read more
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
They had barely spoken in 23 years when, on a winter's day four years ago, Ellen Pontac broke the news to her daughter: Three decades after leaving her husband, Pontac had remarried to another woman. Autumn Cruz / acruz@sacbee.com Laura Caplan, center, kisses Shelly Bailes, after Bailes remarried Caplan's mother, Ellen Pontac, left, at the Yolo County clerk's office...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
At the stroke of 5 Monday afternoon, gay and lesbian couples across California had a moment to savor: At long last, they could legally wed. Shelly Bailes, left, and Ellen Pontac, both of Davis, made their bond official Monday at the Yolo County Clerk Recorder's Office. "We've been waiting a very long time," said Pontac. Yolo County began officiating same-sex wedding ceremonies...
STLtoday.com (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
June 16, 2008--Shelly Bailes, left, and Ellen Pontac, right, hold each other during their wedding ceremony held at the Yolo County Clerk/Recorder's office in Woodland, Calif.(Rich Pedroncelli/AP)SAN FRANCISCO — With a series of simple "I dos," same-sex couples across California started what is expected to be a crush of such unions in coming weeks. The weddings began in a smattering of...
NBC11.com - Local News (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
... at 9:16 a.m.Today, we'll profile one of California's very first same sex couple to get married..Ellen Pontac and of Davis will actually take their second wedding vows as a lesbian couple.They were first married in San Francisco in Feb. 2004 by Assemblyman Mark Leno, then six months later their marriage was invalidated by the California Supreme Court - the same court that is now allowing...
Gay.com (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
"We have breaking news! We're gonna get married!" If you call the Davis, Calif., home of Shelly Bailes, 67, and Ellen Pontac, 66, on Monday morning, that's the voicemail recording you'll hear. But if you wait until evening, you'll get a greeting that includes two words the women have waited more than three decades to say: "My wife." At 5 p.m. Monday, the California Supreme Court ruling...
Gay South Florida (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
By LISA LEFF, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- The flowers have been selected, the Veterans' Memorial Center has been booked, and the three-piece band has been chosen. The e-invitations have gone out and relatives are flying in. The brides - and there will be two of them - might not have time to buy something new to wear, but that's OK. Shelly Bailes and Ellen Pontac, who have been together...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
TOOLSSAN FRANCISCO — The flowers have been selected, the Veterans' Memorial Center has been booked, and the three-piece band has been chosen. The e-invitations have gone out and relatives are flying in. The brides — and there will be two of them — might not have time to buy something new to wear, but that's OK.Shelly Bailes and Ellen Pontac, who have been together for 34 years, do not...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
SAN FRANCISCO - The flowers have been selected, the Veterans' Memorial Center has been booked, and the three-piece band has been chosen. The e-invitations have gone out and relatives are flying in. The brides — and there will be two of them — might not have time to buy something new to wear, but that's OK.Shelly Bailes and Ellen Pontac, who have been together for 34 years, do not want...
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
SAN FRANCISCO - The flowers have been selected, the Veterans' Memorial Center has been booked, and the three-piece band has been chosen. The e-invitations have gone out and relatives are flying in. The brides - and there will be two of them - might not have time to buy something new to wear, but that's OK.Shelly Bailes and Ellen Pontac, who have been together for 34 years, do not want...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
... at the first second that we can," said Shelly Bailes, a Davis resident who will marry her partner, Ellen Pontac.The high court's ruling also raised uncertainty among the state's county clerks who issue marriage licenses and who will no longer pronounce couples as "husband and wife."State officials have moved to strip such gender-specific words from state forms – perhaps using less...
