IN MASS. WEDDING WAVE, THE TRUTH MAY BE VEILED: From the NY Daily News

For Shelley Curnow and Deborah Gar Reichman to make their big wedding legal, they may have to tell a little white lie.

"Getting married is a chance to hold up our relationship, to join a larger community," said Curnow, 34, a database administrator. "And we want the marriage license that goes with it."

The Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, couple, like dozens of gay and lesbian couples in New York, plans to head to Massachusetts on Monday, when that state becomes the first in the nation to allow gay marriages.

A federal court in Boston turned down a last-ditch effort by conservative groups yesterday to scuttle the nuptials.

To get a license, Reichman and Curnow will likely have to fib about where they live--possibly giving the address of the resort where they are getting married May 22.

"We had already planned a traditional Jewish wedding. At the time, we thought it was only going to be consecrated by a rabbi," said Reichman, 30, a freelance museum curator.

"Now, suddenly, we have a chance to have a license on our wedding day," she said. ...

"Out-of-state couples can write down a friend's address, or the inn where they are staying," said Provincetown tourism director Patricia Fitzpatrick, whose town board voted to grant licenses regardless of where a couple lives. "It's a question of basic human rights."

But whether a Massachusetts marriage license will hold up in New York is an open question. ...

Both their families are thrilled, and older relatives suddenly have familiar words like "fiancée" and "engaged" to use.

"My brother would date a woman for two weeks and family friends would ask when he was getting married," Reichman said. "But we weren't asked those questions about our future, until now."

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