Rep. Barney Frank weds longtime partner

Democratic Rep. Barney Frank tied the knot with his longtime partner Jim Ready on Saturday. 

The Massachusetts lawmaker becomes the first member of Congress to enter into a same-sex marriage. 

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and fellow Reps. Al Green (D-Texas) and Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) were among the guests, according to media reports.

“I think it’s important that my colleagues interact with a married gay man,” Frank had said in an interview with New York magazine.

“I do think, to be honest, if I was running for reelection, I might have tried to put the marriage off until after the election, because it just becomes a complication,” Frank added. “But I did want to get married while I was still in office.”

Rep. Green told local television station WBZ-TV that the wedding was “an opportunity for them to do what so many others have been free to do for years and years in this country.”

Frank had joked before the wedding that President Obama would not be invited citing security concerns.

"If he and Michelle wanted to come, I would be delighted and honored to have them, but he will bring the Secret Service," Frank said in January. "I don’t want to be accused of having shut down the entire region for a five-mile radius on a holiday weekend."

This story was updated at 9:40 p.m.