Last May, bride-to-be Koyuki Higashi took to Twitter to encourage Tokyo Disney to change their policy on same-sex weddings after she was told her and her fiancée would have to dress like a heterosexual couple if they wanted to exchange vows at the Happiest Place on Earth. Thanks to her efforts, the company changed their policies within a week and, 10 months later, Higashi got her happily ever after as she and her partner became the first same-sex couple to marry at Tokyo Disney.
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The brides looked stunning in classic ball gown dresses paired with sweeping veils and long white gloves. We were pleasantly surprised to learn that they said their I dos in the chapel of Hotel MiraCosta, which we were originally told would be off-limits to same-sex couples because of “religious teachings.”
“Mickey and Minnie rushed to congratulate me, and [we] boarded a mini parade of Venetian gondola out of the public ceremony in the chapel of the Hotel MiraCosta, to the park!” Higashi writes on her blog. “[It] was really a great day.”
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