NI Secretary ‘not allowing all same-sex couples to marry’

Couples who wish to have a religious ceremony as part of their wedding, or who wish to convert their civil partnership to a marriage, are still not able to do so.

Robyn Peoples (left), 26, and Sharni Edwards, 27, at the Loughshore Hotel, in Carrickfergus, after they became the first couple to have a same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland.

The Northern Ireland Secretary is preventing many same-sex couples from planning their weddings, one of the first to legally marry said.