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| The Couple Taking photograph |
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| The Couple Exchanging Vows |
Luxembourg Prime Minister, Xavier Bettel
married his gay partner on Friday, just a year after same sex
marriages was approved in the country.
Xavier Bettel,
42, married his gay partner named Gauthier Destenay,
a Belgian architect.
The prime minister, who was in a navy
blue suit, and his partner, dressed in a dark grey suit, held hands as
they walked themselves through the aisle for the low key ceremony at
the Luxembourg town hall, where around
100 well-wishers applauded them.
He is the first European Union
leader and the second in the world to openly enter into a same-sex union.
Xavier Bettel is only the second in the
world after Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, who also got married to her writer partner in 2010.
""I wish for everybody to be as happy as I am, thank you to the Luxembourg people and to everyone, I do not make any distinctions, thank you," Xavier Bettel said after the ceremony, as the crowd applauded, threw rice and confetti over the happy couple.
""I wish for everybody to be as happy as I am, thank you to the Luxembourg people and to everyone, I do not make any distinctions, thank you," Xavier Bettel said after the ceremony, as the crowd applauded, threw rice and confetti over the happy couple.
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