Jonathan Mintz (Beth Miller)
Everyone was a winner in the gay-marriage lottery.
City Hall announced that it’ll marry off all 823 couples who entered a hastily organized contest for the right to utter, “I do,” on Sunday, the state’s first day of same-sex marriages.
“This is fantastic news,”‘ gushed New Jersey native and Atlanta lawyer Dawn Jackson, who is flying into town to tie the knot with her girlfriend.
The city originally planned the lottery to whittle an expected flood of applicants down to 764 spots across the five borough’s marriage bureaus.
But with only 59 extra couples to accommodate, officials simply expanded the capacity for the Manhattan office on Worth Street from 400 to 459.
A new lottery will now be used to determine which couples get their first choice of Manhattan — and which get relegated to open spots in the outer boroughs.
Those results should be finalized by noon today, according to City Hall.
City Hall aides John Feinblatt and Jonathan Mintz will have Mayor Bloomberg officiate their wedding Sunday night.