(477)  HUMANIST WEDDINGS

The Registrar General for Scotland, Duncan MacNiven, has decided that members of the Humanist Society for Scotland may be registered as marriage celebrants under the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977.  Twelve such persons have been licensed, and the first humanist wedding under the system took place at the interesting venue of Edinburgh Zoo on 18 June 2005.  The happy couple were Karen Watts and Martijn Reijns.