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Originally Posted by fallen_nemesis  edit* I'd posted this as you were replying obviously.  |
Aye, answered before you posted I think, but that’s right. Humanist wedding ceremonies are fully legal marriages in six countries, Scotland being one of them, whereas the rest of the UK don’t recognise ’em. No clue where the others are, before you ask.
Yes, a Humanist ceremony can be a handfasting, or it can be a traditional bash, or it can be anything you like really. The legal requirements are that the location be ‘safe’, that the ceremony includes a line about ‘do you take so-and-so to be your lawfully married blah’, and that you sign a marriage certificate and hand it in to the Registrars office within a few days.
A lot of gay couples still have two weddings; a legal ritual at the Registry office and a big faux-wedding someplace else—
but in Scotland, by making the big party a Humanist ceremony, they could do away with the Registry office part. *Edit: Nope, my mistake. Same-sex Humanist ceremonies don’t have legal status in Scotland yet. They’re lobbying the Scottish Parliament for it at the moment.
