Today, Ellen Degeneres and Portia DeRossi became the first high-profile celebrity Hollywood same-sex couple to legally marry under California’s new laws. According to MSNBC.com, the couple married yesterday in a small 19-person ceremony at their house in Los Angeles and recited vows that they had written to each other. Ok Magazine reports that Ellen was wearing an all-white suit, while Portia wore a beautiful pale pink Zac Posen dress.

As wonderful as this is, news sources in Australia (Portia’s home country) were already criticizing the fact that this marriage will not be recognized there. Well, to be honest, it won’t be recognized as soon as they leave the state of California here either…unless they go someplace equally friendly.

But rather than rain on the parade here, let’s focus on something truly important, the nookie Ellen will soon be receiving here. I mean, she got the woman a huge 3-carat ring, Portia’s set for life, and they were recently out on a lavish vacation in Italy….Ellen’s certainly got some wicked good stuff coming down the pike…

Cheers to the happy couple, and may there be many more years to come.