Margarita, 23, and Cristian, 22, met last year through mutual friends and ended their first date under the lighthouse. There they shared their first kiss.

They returned to the site to marry.

“Cristian is my first girlfriend,” said Margarita. “It has been such a wonderful relationship that it’s only logic that it wound up here, with us performing this ceremony…I’m so excited.”

Margarita´s mother, Azucena Chávez, admits it has not been easy to accept her daughter’s homosexual lifestyle, especially because it goes against traditional Mexican education and Catholicism publicly condemns it.

“My family is split between those who accept her, and those who don’t,” Ms. Chavez explains, “but for both me and my husband, the priority is to keep our family together, no matter how they choose to live their life.”

Text by Mariana Martínez of La Prensa-San Diego

Playas de Tijuana, Mexico.

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