Fort Greene Couple To Get the Mayoral Treatment at Gay Marriage Ceremony

A couple together for 20 years will get a very special guest as they prepare to exchange vows Friday evening. 

Former Mayor David Dinkins, who led the city from 1990 to 1993, will preside over the union of Stephen Williams and Joey Pressley at a private ceremony in Manhattan.

The two met in Greenwich Village on a cold night in 1990, moved in together in 2004, but waited to tie the knot.

Williams, an employee relations manager, and Pressley, a program director for the Blocks Project at Harlem United Community AIDS Center, had proposed on three occasions. The pair said they were determined to get married in their home state and waited until New York achieved marriage for all loving and committed couples.

"We talked about, maybe we should go to Connecticut or D.C. or some other locale and get married," Pressley said. "But we decided this is our home and we didn't want to do it anywhere else."

Pressley made the former proposal on Gay Pride Day 2011, one day after the state Senate to gay marriages in New York being legal. 

A representative of Councilwoman Letitia James, D-Brooklyn, said she planned to attend tonight's ceremony.