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- Lucy Dacus officiated weddings for nine couples onstage while performing her song “Best Guess” at All Things Go festival in Queens, N.Y. on Sept. 26
- In January, the Grammy winner posted a call to action on her Instagram Stories asking LGBTQ+ couples if they’d like to be legally married on stage during her tour stops
- Dacus was ordained by the Universal Life Church to officiate the weddings, in which Havana Rose Liu served as flower girl
Lucy Dacus officiated weddings for nine couples onstage at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, N.Y., during her set at All Things Go festival.
Dacus, 30, served as the officiant at 9 p.m. on the evening of Sept. 26. Bottoms actress Havana Rose Liu, 28 — who appeared in Dacus’ music video for her song “Ankles” in January — served as the flower girl, handing out roses to each couple taking part in the ceremony.
“You are my best guess at the future / You are my best guess / If I were a gambling man, and I am / You’d be my best bet,” Dacus sings on the humble love song “Best Guess,” the lead single from her album Forever is a Feeling.
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“In recognition of the vows you have made in this special moment in front of all these friends and strangers,” she read from a script, as the crowd cheered, according to The Seattle Times. “It is with great joy that I now pronounce you married.”
In January, the singer posted a callout on her Instagram Stories seeking couples interested in getting legally married onstage during her tour stops.
She later made a post on her Instagram adding, “I can think of all sorts of reasons people may be interested in securing the rights granted through marriage (you know what I mean?), so if you’ve had it in mind forever or are just recently making the decision, I will be honored to do the honors! -Lucy.”
The Grammy winner described the response to her wedding poll as “overwhelming” in an interview with The New York Times.
“I wish it was rote and it wasn’t calling to mind any threats to people’s rights,” she said of officiating the marriages. “But I can tell it’s coming up in everyone’s mind, everyone who’s onstage, everyone in the crowd. There’s no getting around everyone wondering if this is a temporarily possible moment.”
Dacus, who is in a relationship with her Boygenius bandmate Julien Baker, was previously ordained by the Universal Life Church, per the Times.
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Among the married couples were Mac Craighead and Frankie Terrone of Brooklyn, N.Y., Ashley Huynh and Matt Moore from Atlanta, Maria Botero and Bella Langlois of Norwich, Conn., Grace Messimer and Jessica Bajorinas, and more.
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“The first love letter I ever wrote Frankie had a lyric from her song ‘Trust’ in it,” Craighead, who met Terrone at a drag show he was performing in, told the Times. The couple, both 32, applied to be married on stage “on a whim.”
“We joked it’s the most convoluted way to get an autograph,” said Terrone, who works as a paraprofessional.
“thank you @allthingsgo, thank you @havanaroseliu for being flower girl, thank you @dylanminnette for singing bullseye, thank you to my band and crew for Everything. I am often in disbelief, disoriented, and overwhelmed, but I am deeply in love with this life. thank ~you~ for caring, you give me a beautiful view,” Dacus wrote in an Instagram post featuring photos from her festival set on Sept. 28.
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