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BBC News - Same-sex couple married in pagan first

19 January 2015

Two male witches in Edinburgh have tied the knot in the UK's first pagan same-sex marriage.

Tom Lanting, 34, and Iain Robertson, 39, were married in a ceremony in the 16th-century vaulted cellars of Edinburgh's Marlin's Wynd.

The couple, who have been together for 12 years, are both hedge witches, who use herbal remedies to deal with medical and spiritual ailments.

The ceremony included handfasting, the sharing of mead and jumping the broom.

After their wedding on Sunday, the couple said: "Getting married in a legal pagan ceremony means so much to both of us. [How surprisingly trite.]

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