Words Tim Heap
Partners of five years, Cara McCann and Amanda McGurk are set to tie the knot on Valentine’s Day 2019 in Belfast. It’ll be a day of celebrations: two people professing their love for each other in front of family and friends, as countless people have done before them and will continue to do after them.
But it will also be a bitter-sweet day: despite equal marriage being legal in England, Scotland and Wales, as well as in the Republic of Ireland and even the Isle of Man, this will be a civil partnership — a peg down from fullblown marriage.