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57 gay weddings a day blows away UK Government estimates

The Office for National Statistics has today released the provisional figures for the numbers of civil partnerships taking place in the UK.

The figures show that a total of 15,672 civil partnerships have been formed between December 2005 and September 2006, averaging 57 gay weddings a day.

This means that 5 times more gay weddings are taking place than the Government estimates of 22,000 by 2010.

The Government estimated the number of Civil Partnerships after various consultations before the law was implemented.

90% of all civil partnerships were formed in England, 6% in Scotland, 3% in Wales and 1% in Northern Ireland.

There are still more male partnerships formed than female partnerships, with the split being 61% to 39% across the UK.

The Office for National Statistics website has full details of the figures together with further interesting interpretations of the data. However there is no breakdown of the figures by individual area, only by broad region.

Responsibility for the production and release of statistics has passed from the General Register Office to the Office for National Statistics.

Read the detailed release

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pogoplum.com - Company Profile

Christina Harrison-Flynn, Founder & Managing Director, pogoplum.com

Christina Harrison-Flynn, founder and Managing Director of pogoplum.com, has been directing the implementation of technology and integrating acquisitions for launch businesses over the past 22 years. With an immense portfolio of successes that includes D&B, Centrica Telecommunications, 3 and American Express, Christina finds her highly developed organisational skills are the perfect antidote to the emotional demands of the gay wedding industry.

Inspiration for pogoplum.com

In January 2005, during initial contact with Leeds Castle in Kent, Christina, and her wife Liz were intrigued to find the staff were somewhat reticent about hosting a gay wedding, which the couple were planning for December 2005 as the new Civil Partnership Act came into force. Asserting their desire for the perfect day, a visit to the Castle to meet the team was needed to eliminate their fears. The wedding was a dream. But for the 11 months of planning the event, finding other products and services proved challenging, with good quality information and advice being near impossible.

pogoplum.com website

pogoplum.com, the gay wedding portal of choice, which launched at the Gay Wedding Show on 22^nd October 2006 in Brighton, offers its visitors a unique and unrivalled experience. pogoplum.com speaks volumes about its values of openness, passion, creativity and trust. At the same time pogoplum.com offers its visitors the best quality information, advice, products and services; all with a clean, refreshing and dignified approach for gay couples, their friends and families.

Stonewall Giving through pogoplum.com

pogoplum.com has launched with a comprehensive array of features that are being enhanced and supplemented each day, all at no cost to the visitor. When pleased with the quality of free content, the pogoplum.com visitor can donate money to support the portal, 50% of which will be donated by pogoplum.com to support the work of Stonewall.

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Silks, a fabulous new range of greeting cards featuring designs by Yvonne Bell. The designs celebrate gay couples in love and can be used as greeting cards and wedding invitations. Yvonne’s original silk paintings are meticulously reproduced on superior silkweave board with a beautiful envelope and are presented individually wrapped. Yvonne Bell is an internationally recognised Vestment Designer specialising in silk painted vestments. Yvonne is a member of the Guild of Silk Painters and the breadth of her subject matter makes her work of constant interest to them.

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