Let’s honour Elton and David’s union for what it is – a true marriage, says antonia bland
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Sir Elton John got married today, or as the press would have it, "married". The first civilian partnership ceremony had been on Monday - two lesbians in Belfast, one stocky, the other foxy - but this was something else, this was Elton and David.
I don't know what we expected, but in truth, for those of us who were there, it was rather dull. I think, if you're posh, the term is "low-key". They turned up unfashionably early - seven minutes early to be precise. Apart from a brief burst of life from the peanut gallery - two fans brandishing a Ben & Jerry's ice-cream cake with two grooms perched on top - there were surprisingly few fans. For such a subdued and, dare I say it, tasteful event, the press frenzy was absurd.
What did we expect? An orgy? David in a fabulous sequinned white wedding gown,
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| So, there they were, the happy couple, or rather, to adopt the mean-spirited punctuation used by the press, the ‘happy couple’ |
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courtesy of Donatella Versace? Instead, it was eerily similar to our most recent royal wedding, which had taken place only months before at the same Guildhall in Windsor, now the shabby-chic venue of choice for classy celebrities and royals who choose to have a low-key affair.
The traditional country white wedding, once the province of the ultra-Tory, tight-assed Protestant English at their most purse-lipped, has now been usurped by Jordan. What is left for Middle England that hasn't been warped by gay-dom and celeb fantasy? Orgies, possibly.
So, there they were, the happy couple, or rather, "happy couple", if I am to adopt the mean-spirited punctuation used by the press to suggest, in a low whisper, "It's not a legal marriage, you know." Well, allow me to ask the millions of people, journalists included, who are bound to comment on this extraordinarily brave "gay wedding", that we give Elton and David the greatest wedding gift of all, and drop the quotation marks. 
FIRST POSTED DECEMBER 21
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