Lauren Price, 31, and Amy Laker, 29, traded promises in Sydney on Saturday, one week after the new laws became effective.
The function occurred before 65 visitors at a service in Camden in Sydney's south-west.
The primary same-sex weddings were relied upon to occur from January 9 one year from now however a few couples have been qualified for exceptions enabling them to marry prior.
Ms Price and Ms Laker effectively acquired a waiver exempting them from the one-month holding up time of a wedding in light of the fact that their families were going from Wales to be there.
Loved ones of the couple flew from around the globe to be a piece of the day.
In the interim, Amy and Elise McDonald's unexpected wedding occurred in Melbourne's Carlton Gardens on Saturday before around 60 clueless visitors.
The couple told the Herald Sun they had arranged a dedication function during the current end of the week yet acknowledged at the eleventh hour that they could be qualified for an exclusion from Births, Deaths and Marriages on monetary grounds.
Elise McDonald's folks had flown from Asia for the function, while different kin had made the long trip from the United Arab Emirates.
"We were continually going to have a service however to have it authorized is extremely uncommon," she told the Herald Sun.
One couple's race against time
Another Melbourne couple, Cas Willow, 53, and Heather Richards, 56, will likewise be among the first to marry with their wedding slated to occur on Monday.
The couple are in a race against time since Ms Willow has bosom tumor, which has spread to her mind.
Births, Deaths and Marriages gave the couple consent to marry on Monday in light of Ms Willow's conditions.
"I don't know whether I'll influence it to Christmas, to not to mention January 9, so they enabled us to get hitched early," Ms Willow told AAP on Friday.
The match said staff from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center, where Ms Willow is getting treatment, recommended they mastermind an optimized wedding facilitated by the healing facility.
"We are excited to help the festival of Cas and Heather's marriage," the healing facility's CEO Dale Fisher said.
The couple got drew in when government Parliament sanctioned same-sex marriage, instead of have a dedication service as it "simply wasn't the same".
"It implies our relationship won't simply be endured, it will be acknowledged," Ms Richards said.
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