First same-sex marriage takes place in Northern Ireland
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Belfast couple Robyn Peoples and Sharni Edwards make history after law change.
A Belfast couple have tied the knot in the first same-sex marriage to take place in Northern Ireland.
Robyn Peoples, 26, and Sharni Edwards, 27, made history at a ceremony in a hotel in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, on Tuesday afternoon. Their marriage came after a law change in the region.
The day marks their sixth anniversary as a couple and they had booked a civil partnership ceremony at the Loughshore hotel months before the legislation was passed last summer.
When it became clear the first marriages could take place in Northern Ireland this week, they changed their ceremony to a wedding.
After a long and high-profile campaign for change, same-sex marriage was legalised at Westminster by MPs who stepped in and acted on the issue during the power-sharing impasse at Stormont.
Edwards said ‘it means the absolute world’ to be married, before thanking the activists who have campaigned for same-sex marriage...
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