nodnirG kraM wrote:Congratulations to the pair of you!
Civil Partnership is something of which I know very little, but I have been asked to do one in the autumn so I rather need a bit of an insight! Does the service itself differ greatly from a Registrar Office wedding in as much as two people in a room, someone doing the ceremony and the riff raff sitting behind on the sides of their respective person?
The only thing that HAS to be done is a form signed by the people being partnered (not sure of the phrase) and 2 witnesses and the guy doing the partnership. there is nothing else that has to be done.. our registry office had a small thing we had to repeat to each other - which was basicaly the decleration on the form. Everything else is up to you.
We had a short introduction, a friend read a poem, we read a very short poem one line each, gave each other the rings (we did have our neices as ring bearers - as we wanted something for them to do) and that was it - 30 min tops.
We wanted it very simple and short.