New York City's event planners are gearing upfor a surge in business after the Empire Stateembraced same-sex marriage and hundreds of couples rush to tie the knot.

纽约州同性婚姻近日正式合法化，几百对同性恋人迫不及待要喜结良缘。纽约市的婚庆策划者已准备好迎接结婚潮。

In New York City alone, 800 couples were married within hours after New York became the sixth state to make same-sex unions legal on July 24.

7月24日，纽约州成为美国第六个允许同性恋结婚的州。此后数小时内，仅纽约市就有800对同性新人结婚。

"We've been getting a lot of phone calls," said Harriette Rose Katz, a New York City events planner. "I think we're going to get more and more and more out of this. I honestly think it will be a big surge for our business."

纽约市婚庆策划者哈里特 罗斯 卡茨说：“我们接到很多电话，我想我们的收入会越来越高。说真的，生意会火爆起来。”

Among the New York same-sex wedding events that Katz is planning for the marriage of Bill White, the former president of the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York, and commercial insurance brokerBryan Eure, on September 25 with a rosterof high-profile guests including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barbara Walters, George W. Bush and General David Petraeus.

卡茨在纽约策划的同性婚礼包括:纽约无畏号航空母舰海空博物馆前馆长比尔 怀特的婚礼、以及商业保险经纪人布莱恩 厄尔将于9月25日举行的婚礼，贵宾花名册里不乏克林顿夫妇、芭芭拉 沃尔特斯、小布什、以及大卫 彼得雷乌斯将军等名人。

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