The first same sex wedding looks set to take place in England and Wales a few months earlier than originally estimated, the government has announced.
According to Women and Equalities Minister Maria Miller, ceremonies could take place as soon as Saturday 29th March 2014, subject to Parliament’s approval of various statutory instruments, to be laid in the new year.
Further details of the recently announced timetable include:
- Same sex couples who married abroad under foreign law and are currently treated as civil partners will instead be recognised as being married in England and Wales in March 2014.
- Same sex weddings in some British consulates and armed forces bases overseas will be possible, and arrangements for same sex weddings in military chapels will be in place, from June 2014.
- The government is working hard to ensure that couples wishing to convert their civil partnerships into marriages, and married people wanting to change their legal gender while remaining married, will be able to do so as soon as possible. It aims to do this before the end of 2014.
Those couples wishing to be among the first to marry will need to formally give notice of their intention to marry on 13th March 2014.
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