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"Vanessa Gardiner, a partner in the family team at RWK Goodman, told the Gazette: ‘I have personal experience of a family member who wanted to marry her same-sex partner in the garden of her family home in the UK – a garden with a special corner dedicated to the memory of her late father – surrounded by family and friends who could support their union.

‘But the legal restrictions and procedural hurdles made it so difficult that the couple (both Australian citizens) chose instead to marry in their own garden in Australia, in front of a celebrant. The lack of convenience and accessibility ultimately prevented them from marrying in the UK.’ "

Twaddle! All they needed to do is to have had the formal marriage before the Registrar with two witnesses and then any ceremony they liked in the garden with friends and family half an hour later. That has always been the case.

This is people being precious; 'I demand that I should be entitled to do things my way and no other'.

The government has enough on its plate already without wasting effort on this.