Elton John and David Furnish married on Wednesday under a new law in the U.K. that allows same-sex couples to form civil partnerships. The couple’s official union took place to the town hall in Windsor, England, the Guildhall, where Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles married in April. Elton and his 12 years partner married in a private 20-minute ceremony. The ceremony was followed by a $2 million reception for more than 600 guests at the singer’s mansion, according to People.
Close friends Sam Taylor-Wood and husband Jay Jopling, who attended the service, called the ceremony “very, very emotional.”
Wednesday is the first day of such unions become legal in England and Wales, following ceremonies earlier in the week in Northern Ireland and Scotland. The new law will afford same-sex couples the same rights to social security, taxes, pensions and inheritances as other married couples.
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[...] Elton John and David Furnish married on Wednesday under a new law in the U.K. that allows same-sex couples to form civil partnerships. [...]