article_snippet.sent: The 44-year-old said Balding and Alice Arnold returned to the register office where she and Alice Arnold civil partnership ceremony was held in 2006.
article_snippet.sent: Balding said she and Alice Arnold returned to the register office where their civil partnership ceremony was held in 2006 their civil partnership ceremony .
article_snippet.sent: ‘she and Alice Arnold just backdate it to when you did your civil partnership, so officially now we have been married since 2006.
article_snippet.sent: The next thing is to be able to say “married” and have people, businesses, ask what your husband or wife does without assuming you are straight or gay.
article_snippet.sent: and I have [as a high-profile gay couple] and are quite happy to embrace [as a high-profile gay couple].’ Former BBC newsreader Miss Arnold, 53, has written in several newspapers in support of the legalisation of gay marriage.
article_snippet.sent: Clare Balding said: ‘That one word “married” is crucial because That one word “married” defines we relationship.
highlights_snippet.sent: The 44-year-old has tied the knot with Alice Arnold in Chiswick, London .
  