In a New York Post exclusive, “Hakim Nelson and Jason Stenson married on May 26 with nary a raised eyebrow among the oblivious city bureaucrats who not only OK’d the marriage license, but conducted the ceremony, despite gay marriage being illegal in the state.”

The Post notes that one half of the blissfully married duo arrived for their wedding ceremony in a dress, which was perhaps enough to fool city officials.

“Is our system 100 percent foolproof? What system is? We do the best job we can,” an unnamed source told the tabloid. ”If someone is trying to willfully sneak through, we try to stop it. But you have instances of females [who] have male names and vice versa. You’ve heard of a boy named Sue, right?”

Nelson and Stenson may have started a trend when their nuptials flew under the radar — the Post reports that

another gay couple wedded after hearing of Nelson and Stenson’s marriage, and the city is now investigating to see just how many homosexual couples it has joined in matrimony.

Civil attorney Raoul Felder told the Post that, because New York state doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages, Nelson and Stenson’s marriage holds no legal validity.

The state had seemed headed to be the next to approve same-sex marriage, but a coup in the Albany legislature last week — in which two Democratic Senators crossed the floor and gave control of the New York Senate to the Republicans — has put those plans on hold.