Recently re-elected Connecticut state Rep. Beth Bye and her partner Tracey Wilson plan to make history today by becoming the first gay couple to marry in the town of West Hartford.

The Associated Press reports:

For Wilson, it’s not just a personal milestone, but a professional one as well. She’s the town’s historian.

“She’d love to be the first one in town,” joked Bye, who spent hours as a lawmaker listening to testimony on the marriage issue in 2007. She was a member of the Judiciary Committee which approved a bill that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed.

In 2005, Bye and Wilson had a big “wedding” ceremony at their church, before more than 150 guests, when they got a civil union. On Wednesday, they plan to show up at town hall with their kids, dressed in street clothes, and have a friend who is a local state senator and justice of the peace make it all official.

“I think for us, we really were married three years ago in our church,” Bye said. “But it feels different that our state is saying, ‘now you’re married. You have the same rights as everyone else.’”