Voices from a historic weekend:

With this ring, I thee wed

I now pronounce you spouses for life

I feel the weight of history, in a way that I never felt before... It is remarkable and profound

The history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is seldom, if ever, equal

This probably isn't the way anyone would dream up their dream wedding. But it's still a dream. It's a dream come true

Everybody has a right to love each other. It's a civil rights issue. It's time for us to get off the back of the bus

I'm just watching... and saying, 'Right on!'

We've been waiting longer than Britney Spears' marriage lasted

It's a special day in San Francisco... You feel the energy, excitement and enthusiasm, not just here in City Hall but around the Bay Area and the state, and for that matter around the rest of the nation and the world

I keep tearing up as I do this, and I've been doing this for hours," Leno said, as he filled out yet another marriage certificate. "I didn't think it would get to me. What's happening here is so humane. Our opponents will come to learn that.

To be here and be part of history is totally worth it... To have a marriage certificate -- we'll probably frame it. And if it's not legal tomorrow, it'll be legal some day

We've been together 30 years, and we've been married one day

we want all the rights that come with marriage. There are 1,049 federal rights that come with civil marriagewe want all the rights that come with marriage. There are 1,049 federal rights that come with civil marriage

Love, commitment and domesticity have descended on the state capital. Beware

We normally do about 20-30 couples a day. We're doing about 50-60 an hour

My parents are getting married... Congratulations... You're not living in sin anymore

It may seem premature to some Americans, but for 83-year-old Del Martin and 79-year-old Phyllis Lyon, it was a long time coming.... The hour has arrived to decide whether there is any rationale -- in a nation guided by a constitution assuring "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" -- for government to deprive some Americans from the rights and responsibilities of marriage.