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A couple have got married at the Channel Islands Pride celebrations in Guernsey.Freddy Palmer and Becca Morris from Guernsey tied the knot on the main stage of the event in St Peter Port's Market Square on Saturday.

Organisers said it was the first time a wedding had taken place at a Channel Islands Pride event. They added that it could have been the first wedding to have taken place on a Pride stage anywhere.Freddy said: "We're wives and we can say it now. It's for everyone, it's for all the young people who need to see representation like this to feel accepted."The couple led the annual Pride parade which saw hundreds of people walk from Candie Gardens, through St Peter Port, to Market Square.

Before the wedding Becca said she was nervous because Pride was such an important event to her."It means so much to me, for making me feel comfortable in myself and my lesbian identity," she said.

Channel Islands Pride director Ellie Jones said the wedding could be a "world first where a couple have got married on a Pride stage".

"We can't find another case where it's happened and it's legal," she said.and bestow every blessing upon the Church and the whole world.

Let us pray to the Lord.Lord, hear our prayer.

For the late Pope Francis,that the Chief Shepherd,