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标题：HUMANISTS HITCHED
作者：ANDREW BLACK
期刊名称：Sunday Mirror
印刷版ISSN：0956-8077
出版年度：2005
卷号：Jun 19, 2005
出版社：Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd.

HUMANISTS HITCHED

ANDREW BLACK

A COUPLE were wed yesterday in the UK's first legal humanist marriage.

Karen Watts, 29, and Martin Reijns, 27, tied the knot in a landmark ceremony in Edinburgh.

Until now the non-religious wedding has required a second, civil ceremony to make it legal. But new laws passed in Scotland earlier this year mean humanist ceremonies can take place without a minister or registrar.

The traditionally-dressed couple, who posed briefly for photographers following the wedding at The Royal Zoological Gardens, have been together for six years.

Ms Watts and Mr Reijns, who are both non-religious, thought a civil ceremony would be too impersonal.

Ivan Middleton of the Humanist Society married the couple. He said: "It was a wonderful day. The couple wrote the ceremony themselves and it was a real celebration of their love."