The first same-sex marriage license in Halifax County was issued Tuesday, the register of deeds office confirmed.

“The license was returned so they did get married,” county Register of Deeds Judy Evans-Barbee said this morning.

While there have been several calls following the ruling last week by a federal judge that ended the state's gay marriage ban, only one couple, the couple which got married Tuesday, applied, she said.

Monday was the first full day that same-sex marriages could be performed, state media outlets reported.

The Associated Press reported that United District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr., in Asheville issued a ruling Friday shortly after 5 p.m. declaring the ban approved by state voters in 2012 unconstitutional.

The county Register of Deeds Office could not give the name of the couple over the phone.