OK, something else interesting about the wedding fayre. Don’t think we saw any other gay couples there ((and not because we were too busy cruising the straight grooms)). All of the imagery on all of the stands was relentlessly heteronormative. There were very few mentions of civil partnerships at all. Don’t think any of the photographers had a same sex couple photo on their stands. I suppose it’s a bit of a numbers game – there are still enough customers out there who would be uncomfortable around photos like that, and fairly few people who would be actively attracted by it.

The Government passed a bill last year that means that all companies offering services to weddings pretty much have to offer them to gay couples, since you are not allowed to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation. This is all well and good, but clearly we’d much rather work with – and spend our money on – companies that are happy to work with us than companies who are only doing so because they are legally obliged to.

So, anyway, as far as we can tall, all the people we spoke to this afternoon twigged exactly what sort of wedding it is that we want, and no-one had a problem or in any way reacted adversely. Which is nice.

Personally, we’re relentlessly appropriating all the words of “normal weddings” hence “getting engaged”, “husband” and so on. Civil Partnership doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue, and “CP” – sounds rather too much like “seepy”. Urgh!