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SALISBURY, N.C. – A same-sex couple from Salisbury, North Carolina, who recently won a nationwide contest sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union to receive the wedding of their dreams will depart from Salisbury tomorrow morning for their wedding ceremony in New York City on Sunday, April 27.  

Tamara Sheffield and Maryja Mee, college sweethearts who have been together for 24 years and co-founded the Salisbury Pride parade in 2011, are one of five couples living in states where marriage for same-sex couples is not yet legal who are receiving $5,000 toward the wedding of their dreams as part of the ACLU’s “My Big Gay (Il)legal Wedding" Contest.

“That state line keeps us from being treated equally,” Sheffield says in a YouTube video about their contest win. “Being married won’t change how I feel about my relationship with Maryja, but what it does change is how we interact in our part of society.”

Sheffield and Mee will depart from Salisbury Saturday morning on a “rock ‘n roll” train that will take them to New York City for a Fleetwood Mac-themed wedding on Sunday. They are huge fans in particular of Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks, who they are hoping will preside over their marriage ceremony. “We need Stevie to come and do this,” Sheffield says in the video.