The world’s first legally-wed lesbian couple are celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary, this week.

Dutch pair Helene Faasen and Anne-Marie Thus said the secret to their success is marrying for love, not politics.

Speaking to News.Com.Au, Thus said: “We married for love. But of course we were aware it was an historic moment."

The Netherlands was the first country to legalise same-sex marriage, in 2001.

Since then, nearly 15,000 gay and lesbian couples have wed in the Netherlands - about 2 per cent of the total number of marriages registered between 2001 and 2010, based on figures from the Central Statistics Bureau.

"We wanted to make other people think about how horrible it is to be denied something that is a natural right for others,” added Faasen, 44.

“A heterosexual person never needs to think about whether he is allowed to marry or not, he simply needs to be lucky enough to find the love of his life.”

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