TEN YEARS AGO today the Houses of Parliament passed legislation to allow same-sex marriage in England and Wales.
To mark the anniversary, BBC Radio Merseyside host Paul Salt interview me and my husband Warren, as we were the first couple to register a civil partnership in a place of worship in the UK.
In the eight minute interview, we discussed:
- the situation when we decided to have a civil partnership in May 2012, how the law changed about two weeks before, and how we found out ours would be the first a couple of days before the service;
- how supportive the community at Ullet Road Unitarian Church were to us;
- why we wanted to have a ceremony in a church;
- how the story went viral across the world, in 2012 and again in 2013 as the UK Government consulted on whether to allow same-sex marriage;
- how we wrote our own ceremony, incorporating something old (the rite of Brother-Making) and something new (the first civil partnership to be registered in a place of worship in the UK);
- whether we dreamed that it would be possible to marry when we met in 2007;
- why we had three receptions to celebrate!
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