Gay Honeymoons

There are no residency requirements for gay marriages in the UK, so you can get married in England, Scotland or Wales and this can take place without the need to be present for more than a day. Why not combine a holiday with your marriage and make it a honeymoon. Alternatively, hold your marriage ceremony in the UK and then take the honeymoon across some of the most romantic locations in in Europe. Yes, gay couples across the world are travelling to the uk for a holiday and getting married here at the same time. Imagine holding your wedding ceremony in a Scottish castle before flying over to your wedding bed in Paris for a relaxing and romantic honeymoon. Paris is only a two hour flight from Scotland or less than one hour from London.

If planning your Civil Partnership is one of the most important parts of your life at the moment, then you can just imagine how exciting it will be to be driving away from your wedding and heading off on your honeymoon. When it comes to planning gay honeymoons, we know that you will be looking for lots of gay honeymoon ideas to help plan that special holiday of a lifetime. We've written this guide to gay friendly holidays to help you choose the perfect honeymoon. We hope you like our ideas.

Gay Wedding Ideas

The UK Civil Partnership Act of 2005 allows same sex couples to register civil partnerships that are fully recognised by the State and grants them a package of legal rights and opportunities. Many gay couples in the UK are now planning their wedding and honeymoon, so there are many events taking place to assist you with your planning and travel requirements.

You might be interested in attending the UK's Gay Wedding Show that is held in Cardiff, Manchester and Brighton. This event is unique as it allows you to experience a range of Civil Partnership, religious and independent ceremonies as they unfold, providing the opportunity for you to understand the symbolism, signing and ceremony. What happens is that a number of couples demonstrate by perfroming examples of Civil Partnership ceremonies from the registration service and Civil Ceremonies.

This year, there will be a range of themes which will be used throughout the shows - everything from musicals to magic, swing to jazz, classical to acoustic, providing suitable ambience for the different ceremonies.

A note regarding venues for Gay Weddings Partnerships in the UK

Currently in the UK, approved venues are obliged to offer either Marriages OR Civil Partnerships OR both. However, this potentially allows venues to make a prejudiced decision and then hide behind their licence. You can read more about this in the Registrar General's guidance to Authorities for the approval of premises as venues for Marriages under section 26(1)(bb) of the Marriage Act 1949 and Civil Partnerships under 6 (3a)(a) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004.

Under the Types of premises - section 8, it states that:
The premises will be approved for the solemnisation of marriages and the registration of civil partnerships and must be regularly available to the public for use for one or the other. The holder of an approval may decide that the premises are only available for marriages or for civil partnerships and not for both. If a person is aggrieved by approved premises not being available for both, he or she should be advised that this cannot be enforced under marriage and civil partnership legislation. The authority has no powers to intervene and it is a matter that the person will have to pursue with the holder of the approval.

At present the Regulations prevent local authorities from refusing to licence a venue which provides weddings but refuses to offer Civil Partnership ceremonies. Some organisations are campaigning to change this.