Despite Canberra couple Rebecca Stones and Adam Duffy having every intention of getting married, there was one thing stopping them from tying the knot.
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After a resounding "yes" victory in the postal survey earlier this month, in which 61.6 per cent of Australia supported changing the marriage act, it now looks like a wedding is on the horizon.
"We haven't done anything about it yet. We've got a lot of friends and family who are excited," Ms Stones said.
"Now the next move will be planning a wedding."
The couple told The Canberra Times earlier this year that their decision to hold off their wedding until a change in the legislation was out of respect to LGBT friends and family members.
"The government mandated that you have to say at weddings that the marriage means the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others ... which we don't believe and it's discrimination towards our loved ones," Ms Stone said in March.
Despite delaying their eventual wedding plans, Ms Stones said the wait was more than justified.
"I couldn't go out and get married tomorrow because the vows would have to have included that offensive statement, and so for us, we couldn't celebrate with our friends and family," she said.
"It's been absolutely worth the wait."
At the time the pair made their decision, the government had not yet proposed the postal survey as a means to legislate same-sex marriage.
While the survey result has meant Ms Stones and Mr Duffy can marry sooner than they anticipated, they said the process to get to this point may not have been the best way.
"We expected to get a plebiscite, and instead we got a non-binding postal survey," she said.
"We're lucky, however, to live in the jurisdiction with the highest percentage of 'yes' voters, and the Braddon street party really spoke for itself."
The ACT recorded a "yes" vote of 74 per cent, with the highest participation rate of any state or territory of 82.3 per cent of eligible voters.
The emphatic vote has now meant the pair can fulfil the promise they made earlier this year.
"We have a joke that [after the legislation passes] we could get together with the Jensens and do a ring swap," she said.
Ms Stones was referencing Canberra couple Nick and Sarah Jensen, who made headlines in 2015 when the pair said they would divorce if same-sex marriage became legal.
The Jensens have not offered a statement since the postal survey.
One of the reasons both Ms Stones and Mr Duffy elected to hold off getting married was setting an example to their almost-two-year-old son Henry about "standing up for what you believe".
"We'll be able to say to our son that we were on the right side of history and set a good example," she said.
