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Actor Maurice Mejia married her boyfriend: Did a Catholic priest marry them?
Actor Maurice Mejia did not want to say goodbye to the year 2020 without walking to the altar and swearing eternal love to her boyfriend, stylist Enrique Guzmán, and this Monday, December 14 a wedding in the United States, although the initial idea was to do it in Bali, Indonesia.
The news was revealed by the magazine People in Spanish, which through its website, shared several photographs of the marriage of the soap opera actor as Cure with the Angel and The Successful Perez and his promised, who is that none of this.
As seen in the snapshots, Mejia wore a white jacket and blue pants, while her husband today opted for a completely dark blue dress, which matched a white shirt, in which they both described how the best day of their lives.
And although the Catholic Church has not yet approved same-sex marriage, Mejia says he made his dream of being married to a priest come true.
“The most emotional moment was to get in front of him and in front of your father and receive his blessing. It’s like a very strong energy to be in front of someone who represents your Catholic religion,” the actor said in the aforementioned post. “I lived it as ‘I am a child of God’. God has nothing to do with your sexuality, but with the simple fact of being alive and being part of this universe,” the Mexican added. “We got married with a father’s blessing and it was amazing. I felt like such a traditional groom, taking the priest’s blessing I never would have imagined I could do that and it was a dream.”
And unlike other celebrity weddings, which feature long guest lists, the couple didn’t invite anyone, and it was a moment they treasured just for the two of them.
“I wanted it to be an intimate moment, to be for us,” the soap opera gallant said, recalling that they were faced with various obstacles when planning their original wedding in Bali, where unions between couples are prohibited. the same sex. And although they tried until the end to do it there, then they chose to marry better at home, in the United States.
“We find that (Indonesia) is a country that does not allow unions between gay couples (…) I insisted that there should be a solution to marry where I wanted, then the solution was to rent a village and make everything private, risking that the government or the authorities could come and cancel everything, ”commented the happy husband, who mentioned that he had sworn eternal love to his partner in November, in a another special ceremony.
“We had done a Mayan ceremony a week before, then I said to my husband, ‘For me I was already married.’ Actually the Mayan ritual we did was so beautiful that for me I was already married. ‘And he said to me,’ No, I want to get married, ‘”Mejia said.
And speaking of her husband today, the actor said he felt very lucky. “My love story comes from 5 years ago. He introduced us to a mutual friend, we saw each other one day, I stole a kiss from him and we didn’t see each other again until two years later. We have been together for three years now, “he said.
“We spent 24 hours together: we work together, we train … we do everything together. A lot of people ask me if it’s difficult and for me it’s the greatest pleasure … I love working with him. I admire him a lot. That’s what made me fall in love with him: the admiration I have for him, for his work and for his way of leading the whole project “, he concluded in a youtuber.
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