While some lawyers have drawn up 'pre-cips', the equivalent of a pre-nuptial agreement, civil partners must wait at least 12 months before they can legally break up (just like any heterosexual marriage that goes wrong).
As for Christine Quinn, the city's first openly gay City Council Speaker, she thanked the president for standing up for LGBT rights and called for a press conference at City Hall in which she joked, "He's more than invited to the wedding" referring to her upcoming nuptials to longtime partner Kim Catullo.
Cyanogenesis serves in predator defense by releasing HCN, but also stores reduced nitrogen that can be mobilized for chitin synthesis, and plays a role in mate choice by determining the attractiveness of nuptial gifts from male to female partners (Zagrobelny et al., 2007).
The two chose a civil ceremony drawn from the traditions of the Cherokee Indians, which uses the word "partners" where other nuptials might mention "husband and wife".
Pre-nuptials Once you're married, both partners have a claim on the household assets – and, as messy divorces such as that of Paul McCartney and Heather Mills have shown, it can often take a court battle to decide who owns what.
As part of courtship, they sing, rub antennae with their partner, and create small "nuptial gifts" from their own secretions for the female to eat.
Sexuals of fungus-growing ants typically mate during nuptial flights.
Following a day of travel, they arrived in New York, Lisa's frail physique being pushed in a wheelchair through the airport terminal by a beaming, devoted and loving partner, their nuptials less than 48 hours away.
For example, the previously available experimental data strongly suggest that dart shooting serves to manipulate the partner (manipulation- or sexual conflict hypothesis), whereas alternative hypotheses are not supported (nuptial gift- and female choice hypothesis; see background section).
Appearance: The Democratic Nuptial Convention.
