At the end of the day, this is really what it is all about. It is not about that day, it's about the day after. Here is a photograph of Sgt. Charles Eater kissing bride Nelda Mae Draege at end of civil ceremony at the Marriage License Bureau.

Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: May 1943
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt

{image via Life magazine archives on Google}