This is the case for both heterosexual and same-sex couples.

Same-sex marriage was legalised in France in 2013, and the procedures and ceremonies are nearly identical to those for a heterosexual marriage. Same-sex marriage Citizens of 11 countries (Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Kosovo, Laos, Morocco, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia and Tunisia) cannot enter into a same-sex marriage in France.

I adore Sevastopol, which is a magnificent resort (with a climate of the Mediterranean type) where I go every summer.

Most of my former boy-friends did not drink a drop of alcohol and they were very nice to my lady's taste but so called night-birds.

Getting married in France Getting legally married in France is only possible through a civil ceremony which takes place at the council offices ().

It can also be difficult to get legally married in France if you don't have ties to the country, so it's important to check the requirements for a French wedding, which are outlined below.

This is apparently due to pre-existing treaties which mean that citizens of these countries must abide by certain of their own laws while in France.

At the time of writing, in 2014, various challenges were under way but success is not in sight.

I married in 1999 to a French man and now I am living in Toulon (the south of France).

The fact that struck me most of all when I had arrived in France, was the image of Ukrainian or Russian women that French people have: a little bit exacting, without ambitions, obedient (even imposed) in short cliches to antipodes of reality which make laugh.