At least they’re honest in Mexico City about their greed for foreign money, I suppose; and after all, it’s not now uncommon for wedding guests to have to shell out hundreds of pounds to take part in people’s ‘fantasy’ weddings. But I do hope Mexico City’s own gays without access to the all-important dollars are going to see an improvement in the way they’re treated too, and not just the moneyed foreigners.

I usually am someone who tends to be sort of cynical towards capitalizing on certain things, but honestly in this case… it would be like if you lived in a city that had say.. no coffee shops, then your neighboring city just happened to open a rather large coffee shop. If they are gonna do then heck, why not! not many other places seem really interested in offering said service.

The Netherlands, for instance, allows same-sex as well as opposite-sex marriage but will only let you get married if you are resident there (or have Dutch citizenship) so that’s no use to someone who lives somewhere else and can’t get married in their home country.

In time, as same-sex marriage becomes legal in new areas, people who live in such areas and have already got married somewhere else can simply register their marriage which will have, by that time, become valid.

I think its a disgrace that my legal marriage would only be regarded as a civil partnership in my home country. I hold a “certificate of marriage”. Nowhere does it state that its a civil partnership, the two are entirely different unions. At least I can take comfort in the knowledge that here in New York state where I live, my marriage performed in Connecticut is legally recognised in New York. So there’s absolutely NO reason why it should not be recognised as such in the country of my birth. This has NOTHING to do with semantics either. I’m most definitely not in a civil partnership and personally, I find it highly offensive that my own government refuses to acknowledge that fact. The only reason I can think of as to why its so obstinate is that if it recognised mine and other British same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, it would then put it in an extremely difficult and embarassing situation by forcing its hand to allow same sex couples to marry in their own country. Similarly, straight couples in the UK should also have the right to opt out of marriage and form a civil partnership, I see no reason why they shouldn’t if the government, be it labour or tory truly believes in full equality, which neither do.

My partner and I are planning to wed in Canada. In the UK our marriage will be recognised as a CP for all legal purposes but:

1) we’d know we’re married
2) marriage exports better to countries that may not recognise civil partnerships
3) I see it as a political statement, giving money to a country that supports marriage equality taking it away from the UK’s civil partnership system.
4) if and when the UK passes marriage equality, you’ll already be married

I hope more couples out there, who don’t like civil partnerships, will consider doing the same.

Currently many Americans get married in Canada, for instance, which has no residency requirements and their marriages are recognised in those states that recognise same-sex marriages. For New Yorkers it’s the only option. They can’t get married in NY state, but same-sex marriages celebrated elsewhere are recognised once they come back home.

I’m guessing this article is trying to tell us that Mexico City does not have residency requirements for marriages but they don’t actually say it, and considering they seem to think Mexico is in South America, I would double check elsewhere before planning a Mexican wedding.

Mexico is not in South America. Geographically it is part of North America, and Mexico is generally referred to as being part of Central America.