A video clip featuring their wedding party was posted on YouTube Thursday, and has attracted more than 10,000 page views.
In the 11-minute-long clip, Thuy Linh and Quang Minh, both 19, exchanged vows in a cozy restaurant Tuesday with the presence of their friends, mostly young people.
The ‘groom’’s mother was the only parent to attend the wedding.
The clip has become a hot topic in Vietnamese online forums, with some raising questions whether the couple was too hasty to get married at such a young age.
The two are freshmen at the Raffles University in Hanoi. Quang Minh, the ‘groom’, said she hoped their wedding would help other gay people to be courageous enough to express who they are.
“I live with my mom and my younger sister. My mom was shocked when she was first told about my sexuality but then she said the most importance thing is that I feel happy,” she said.
Thuy Linh, the bride, said she felt no wrong to live with her true nature.
Most young people conveyed the best wishes to the couple on online forums, saying it was the rights of the couple to decide their own way.
The couple planned to go abroad for study after finishing their courses in Vietnam.
Currently, Vietnamese laws ban same sex marriage.
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