BY STACEY PALEVSKY
Journal of The Jewish Weekly of Northern California
SAN FRANCISCO — Three years ago, Sharon Papo and Amber Weiss stood under a chupah in a Santa Cruz redwood grove and said “I do” in front of 100 relatives and friends.
They stomped on a glass, stood nose to nose wrapped in a tallit and sipped from a Kiddush cup, rituals that sealed them forever. And yet, to the government, their union was invisible.
That changed this week in San Francisco, when they added one word — lawfully — that was absent from their original vows.
“Amber, my beshert, my beloved,” Papo said to Weiss inside San Francisco City Hall. “… I take you to be my lawfully wedded wife.”
Just hours before, Papo and Weiss took their ivory beaded chiffon wedding gowns out of the closet of their Berkeley home, hopped on local transit and walked into San Francisco’s City Hall to exchange vows once more.
This time, they had legal recognition.
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