know like any other registry office wedding you know it was this is here was nice yeah i mean it was you know it was quite traditional in the wedding march played as the boys came down the aisle. and you know what the celebrant had to say was more or less in keeping with heterosexual ceremonies so you know i think the hope is that this will just become a normal part of life and you talk to boto and his partner how important was it for them after thirty eight years to actually be married really important you know they they've been gay activists for a really long time in the very active in the community and they wanted to get married so there was a personal element there was also sort of an activist element a sort of political element for them it was more about symbolism than the sort of extension of rights that they'll now get but it was a very symbolic thing and because they've been fighting for for the community for so long you know i think it was a really important day and do people see it as full equality in our is there still a ways to go. i think in terms of gay rights the community see it as germany
soon still on the big day some pretty wedding just his he didn't sleep. last night. but happy really happy. be able to marry a. photo and call method a party in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine in what was then west berlin they've been together ever since and it's been he is campaigning for gay rights in germany. so that hard work has finally paid off. the ear. marriage is a contract for life for two people who love each other and want to make a life together to be there for each other their gender is irrelevant. i know they've made it official in front of their loved ones with the world's media looking on. but not everyone the most moving moment was walking in here about seeing all our friends and hearing the wedding march. through that
the morning. time to check in with jeanne moos. who really saw this coming? not sarah palin. her daughter bristol and levi johnston, the father of her baby tripp, are now taking a second chance at love. >> they announced they're engaged again to "us weekly." we were told this morning it's not u.s. weekly it's "us weekly. >> i already knew that. you were told that this morning? that's right. you are always reading "the economist." >> that's right. high-minded stuff is all i read. before the breaking news to levi's father mother-in-law jeanne moos breaks it down. what was that breaking news? something about levi and bristol? >> reporter: even when levi johnston was uncovered on a cover it was less of a shock than this cover, anoungs his engagement to bristol palin. >> yikes. >> huh? >> the news was dispensed with musical accompaniment from reunited -- to the wedding march.