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Yup. Texas.  The Dallas natives used Skype to have their October 10 nuptials officiated from Washington, D.C., where gay marriage is legally recognized, by Sheila Alexander-Reid, who appeared on a 6-by-8-foot screen behind the couple as they stood hand-in-hand in a conference room at the W Dallas Victory hotel surrounded by friends and family.  \u201cWhen we walked down the aisle, as soon as we reached the front, she comes on the screen like The Wizard of Oz,\u201d Reed told the Dallas Voice. \u201cIt was beautiful. It wasn\u2019t make-believe. It was like she was really there.\u201d According to the Voice, \u201cIt\u2019s called \u2018e-marriage,\u2019 and it\u2019s a sort of high-tech version of the proxy wedding traditionally held when one of the parties can\u2019t be physically present\u2014because, for example, they\u2019re in the military stationed overseas.\u201d \u201cThe reason we wanted to do it this way is because we wanted to have a wedding here in Dallas with our family and friends,\u201d Reed told the Voice. \u201cIt was very important that all of our family came. It was the first time they actually met, even though we\u2019ve been together 10 years. If we had to go to D.C., there\u2019s no way we could have had the people there who we wanted to be there.\u201d Though there is nothing in D.C.\u2019s marriage laws that prohibit this type of proxy wedding, Reed acknowledges that the validity of the arrangement might not stand up in court. 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