There was something unusual about the fresh-faced groom that day.
The priest at the San Jorge church in A Coruña, north-western Spain, didn't see anything special, and the smattering of relatives in attendance weren't saying anything.
But both 'Mario' and his bride, Marcela, were women.
It was 1901, and the union between Elisa and Marcela remains the only known same-sex marriage in the history of the Spanish Catholic Church.
But the couple's sweet victory over the conservative culture of early 20th Century Spain would be short-lived.