Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish have formally converted their civil partnership to a marriage - with the musician documenting the day on the Instagram website.
The couple have been hosting a ceremony at their Windsor estate in Berkshire with a number of stars in attendance.
David and Victoria Beckham, musician Ed Sheeran and actor David Walliams were among the guests.
Mr Furnish and Sir Elton, who have two sons, became civil partners in 2005.
The couple's sons Zachary, who was born in 2010, and Elijah, born last year attended the ceremony.
One image - showing the newlyweds holding hands, with Elijah standing between them - bears the caption: "Zachary grabs David's iPhone and takes a photo of his brother while we exchange our vows."
Sir Elton has been including the hashtag #ShareTheLove on his posts on Sunday.
Friends of the couple have also been using the tag, with the Beckhams' eldest son Brooklyn writing: "Amazing day with family and special friends congratulations Uncle Elton and Uncle David #ShareTheLove."
The teenager posted a photograph of the wedding lunch menu, which included wild mushroom soup with truffle cream, beef short rib and caramelised onion pie and warm chocolate pudding with ice cream. Guests were served Laurent-Perrier champagne.
Sir Elton has posted a number of pictures to the photo-sharing website, where he has thousands of followers, including a picture taken at a window showing a garden, with the caption: "Good morning! Nice day for a wedding".
Bless, Reggie marries Dave
Bless, Reggie marries Dave
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Re: Bless, Reggie marries Dave
Congratulations to the family! 
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Re: Bless, Reggie marries Dave
I'm happy for them, but as Jarl pointed out, it does not affect me much.
Re: Bless, Reggie marries Dave
Good for them. Glad Sir Elton lived long enough to benefit from the change in attitudes and the change in the law which has followed it.
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Re: Bless, Reggie marries Dave
For some reason I thought Elton already was married. 
Well congrats to the happy couple.
Well congrats to the happy couple.
Re: Bless, Reggie marries Dave
It's always a good day when love finally reigns supreme over bigotry and hatred!
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Re: Bless, Reggie marries Dave
They were in a "Civil Partnership" a legal but rather unromantic way for same sex couples to cement their relationship that we had before Same sex marriage was made legal. Civil partners have been able to convert their status to married since 10th December.TPFKA@W wrote:For some reason I thought Elton already was married.
Re: Bless, Reggie marries Dave
OK but hasn't same sex marriage been legal for a while longer, a year or more at least in Britain? And thanks for the clarification.
Re: Bless, Reggie marries Dave
Yes same sex marriage has been available for a while but if a previously civil partnered couple wanted to marry they would have had to dissolve the civil partnership before marrying - this changed on 10th December.
Peculiarly British.
Peculiarly British.