According to another report just this Friday (9/12/08),
“Those who wish to be married in California and be called ’bride and groom’ will have to wed in another state. The problem surfaced when a couple who married in the state crossed out ’Party A’ and ’Party B’ on the marriage license and inserted ’bride’ and ’groom.’ Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) picks up the story. ’The state of California refused to recognize this marriage between a bride and a
groom, and said [their marriage license] had to be filled out again to [read] only Party A and Party B – that the state of California no longer recognizes a marriage between a bride and a groom or a husband and
a wife,’ Dacus explains.”
(http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=246972)