MILWAUKEE  — On June 6, 2014, Matthew Schreck and Fernando Gutierrez became the first same-sex couple to legally marry in Milwaukee.

This weekend, they celebrated their landmark anniversary at the city’s PrideFest.

“I was laying in the backyard listening to the Brewers game and I got a text that this had happened, and we needed to get the courthouse immediately,” said Schreck. “I raced over and picked up Fernando at a school. He was teaching at on the South Side, and we raced downtown and grabbed one of our friends basically off the street and told him, ‘you are going to be our best man.’ We called another one and said, ‘Would you marry us?’ And the rest is history.”

Even though they didn’t plan on being the first, their special day made headlines.

Their marriage, along with hundreds of others, came after a federal judge in Wisconsin struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

“It was excitement, fear and passion,” said Gutierrez. “That’s the best way I can explain it.”

Ten years later, they are celebrating pride with even more pride. They recently visited the courthouse where they got married a decade ago.

Now living in Chicago, they said they still try to make it back to Wisconsin every year to celebrate.

“It just fills my heart, and it’s just so touching,” Schreck said. “Just the love and all the community gave to me growing up. I am just very thankful.”

While they said they’re thankful for the progress that’s been made, they said there’s still work to be done.

“We don’t want special rights; we just want to be treated like everyone else,” said Schreck. “No one is looking for anything special. We don’t want to die for being gay. We want to marry the one you love. We want to be able to adopt children and do all those things that straight people do.”