almostwitty

I think there's actually a different starting point in Europe, which has made it all a lot easier. *Everyone* has a civil union that is separate from the religious marriage. So even if you have a "chuch wedding" they stop the service here for your priest-cum-civil servant to serve you the papers, as it were. So from a legal point of view everyone gets the same thing (as I understand it) and from a religous point of view, you fend for yourself.