Bermuda became the first territory in the world, in early December, to restore the traditional definition of marriage by legislating to ban same-sex weddings only six months after they were introduced.
Voters in the British Overseas Territory had rejected same-sex marriage by a landslide in a referendum in 2016.
Change of government
However, earlier this year the island’s Supreme Court disregarded the public vote to rule that same-sex marriage should be legal. The first of these ceremonies took place in June.
