Two inmates of Canada’s Edmonton Institution for Women, one scheduled to be released in November, and the other scheduled to be released in December, were wed by a minister over the weekend.

The women were married in their street clothes, said [assistant warden Gary Sears], and were allowed to complete the ceremony without handcuffs. Still, they remained under the watchful eye of prison guards the whole time, he said.

The wedding night was a lonely one for the couple. Prison policy prevents them from consummating the union, and they remain in separate cells.

It isn’t the first same-sex marriage behind bars in Canada, but it may be a first for women. Two men were married at Ontario’s Bath Institution in November.