On December 21, 2005, at a private ceremony in England, Elton John and his longtime lover, the renowned British musician David Furnish, became civil partners. As one of the earliest well-known same-sex civil partnerships in the UK, their union was warmly received. Then, on December 21, 2014, in a stunning and celebrity-filled ceremony, they changed their civil partnership to a legal marriage in the wake of same-sex marriage being legal in the UK.