As a trainee journalist in Cumbria many years ago, every so often I would have to write wedding reports.You would go down to the front office and pick up a sheet of paper, on which one of the families of the married had answered about ten easy questions and attached a photo of the happy couple.
From that you would whip up a 200-250 word story to go in the paper , which would usually go in the Saturday edition, or whenever there was a space to fill.
It was easy then as the was clearly a bride and a groom. But what about in these enlightened times? Do we say groom 1 or groom 2 or dare I say 'top' and 'bottom!'
Indeed, what can we say except have a look at this report from the News of the World (where else?) of Hamilton priest Rev Dr David Lord (left) and his English 'husband' Rev Peter Cornwall.
They are the ones who recently staged a ceremony in London, which is shaking the Church of England to its foundations.
The UK Daily Mail has more pix, including the seven tier cake, and this post could well be their first exposure in New Zealand.
Now, in the mid-90s, I worked for the Waikato Times, but I cannot really remember if the paper featured wedding reports too. If it does, then some young trainee has an interesting wedding report to write up. Unless, of course they can simply 'take it off the wire.'
UPDATE: Tony Milne posts this hilarious video claiming gays getting married causes heterosexual divorce!

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From City Hall...
'Next!'
'Good morning. We want to apply for a marriage license.'
'Names?'
'Tim and Jim Jones.'
'Jones? Are you related? I see a resemblance.'
'Yes, we're brothers.'
'Brothers? You can't get married.'
'Why not? Aren't you giving marriage licenses to same gender couples?'
'Yes, thousands. But we haven't had any siblings. That's incest!'
'Incest?' No, we are not gay.'
'Not gay? Then why do you want to get married?'
'For the financial benefits, of course. And we do love each other. Besides, we don't have any other prospects.'
'But we're issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples who've been denied equal protection under the law. If you are not gay, you can get married to a woman.'
'Wait a minute. A gay man has the same right to marry a woman as I have. But just because I'm straight doesn't mean I want to marry a woman. I want to marry Jim.'
'And I want to marry Tim, Are you going to discriminate against us just because we are not gay?'
'All right, all right. I'll give you your license. Next!'
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'Hi. We are here to get married.'
'Names?'
'John Smith, Jane James, Robert Green, and June Johnson.'
'Who wants to marry whom?'
'We all want to marry each other.'
'But there are four of you!'
'That's right. You see, we're all bisexual. I love Jane and Robert, Jane loves me and June, June loves Robert and Jane, and Robert loves June and me. All of us getting married together is the only way that we can express our sexual preferences in a marital relationship.'
'But we've only been granting licenses to gay and lesbian couples.'
'So you're discriminating against bisexuals!'
'No, it's just that, well, the traditional idea of marriage is that it's just for couples.'
'Since when are you standing on tradition?'
'Well, I mean, you have to draw the line somewhere.'
'Who says? There's no logical reason to limit marriage to couples. The more the better. Besides, we demand our rights! The mayor says the constitution guarantees equal protection under the law. Give us a marriage license!'
'All right, all right. Next!'
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'Hello, I'd like a marriage license.'
'In what names?'
'David Deets.'
'And the other man?'
'That's all. I want to marry myself.'
'Marry yourself? What do you mean?'
'Well, my psychiatrist says I have a dual personality, so I want to marry the two together. Maybe I can file a joint income-tax return.'
'That does it! I quit!! You people are making a mockery of marriage!!'
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(wish I'd written that :)
Does gay Lord say no, I wonder?
/"the Office" reference
FFM, I also spent time working at moon base alpha out the back of Te Rapa. Was that skank Delwyn Knight still the advertising manager when you were there?
I think so Roger.
I don't recall ever having much to do with her.
I might have done one adfeature on Whakapapa but that was it.
I stayed in the newsroom, working for Roy Pilott.
I see that they wear their condoms on their ties - is this a safe sex practice?
Whoever you are roger i believe you need to keep your nasty comments about people to yourself! How dare you call someone such a name....i don't understand how you can be so rude about someone, blatantly call them a name and i no for a fact you would not have the balls to say it to her face.....do you like being back in the school yard because thats where you belong....was Skank the best you could do....really smart of you thats for sure. Just so you know i know Delwyn in a work capacity and believe me she is nowhere near being a skank in fact she is one of the nicest people i have ever met and has no resemblence to a skank! For godsake i cant believe you said this!
As for Fairfacts media....not calling someone on such a comment in your blog is unreal, seriously Delwyn is a person who has great respect from her peers, staff and friends so i would say such a derrogatory comment be removed.
Id like to know more about what the "skank" did. Quite a shady personality.
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