Troy Perry conducted the first same sex wedding in California in the late 1960 s Today I watched a review of the documentary where he was interviewed at the time with footage of such a ceremony and interview with Perry at the time on Alan Whicker s retrosepctive of Whicker s World which was broadcast in April this year Weddings are part and parcel of Christian marriage and marriage is not confined to civil and common law marriages but includes religious forms of marriage whether recognised by the state or not