Earlier this month, we highlighted the marriage of Mark Reed and Dante Walkup — two men who wed in a Dallas, Texas hotel ballroom as D.C.-based official Sheila Alexander-Reid presided via Skype — as a clever exploit of the jumbled legislation on same-sex unions. But it looks like we (and several other more prominent media outlets) may have jumped the gun a bit. Amanda Hess reports today that the District’s marriage bureau has “kicked back” Reed and Walkup’s marriage certificate.

“The return is invalid because it has come to the attention of the court that the subject contracting parties to the marriage and you, the officiant, did not all personally participate in a marriage ceremony performed within the jurisdictional and territorial limits of the District of Columbia,” the letter reads. Alexander-Reid also received a fresh marriage license, with which she could re-officiate a Reed-Walkup ceremony, should they choose to marry again in D.C., this time “with all parties . . . in physical attendance”

It’s a bit of a flat tire on what was a pretty fantastic story, but it’s certainly not that shocking of a development — with the amount of media coverage the couple’s vows attracted, it was likely that the District would, at some point, get wise to the Skype loophole and invalidate the ceremony. (Of course, one could argue that the District could have gone the opposite direction and stuck up for its legislation.) In any case, it will be interesting to see how far Reed and Walkup take this battle — a civil action proposing that anything performed via Skype can be considered taking place in only one of the Skyping participants’ locations would surely make for one interesting lawsuit.