[Livia]

Civil partnership is the same as getting married in a registry office. I would imagine that doing the whole big white wedding thing in a church/temple/synagogue would mean you were a member of that church and a follower of that religion. Or is it just that you want the whole fancy dress and flowers in church thing? I think it's kind of shallow when hetero couples do the white wedding thing when it means nothing to them spiritually, I'd feel the same about gay "marriages".

I've been to a couple of civil partnership ceremonies and they were both lovely with the couples totally committed to each other. They didn't think that because someone doesn't call it a "marriage" it was any less binding.