supports HTML5 videoThe movement’s organisers said the services had so-far taken place without incident, although one priest received hostile emails telling him he would ‘die and go immediately to hell’ before a ceremony on Sunday.
Juliana Weinmeister, who was blessed in Cologne with her partner Nini, said: ‘It was actually surprising for us too. We decided quite spontaneously to come here today because we heard about it this morning. ‘Now we’re completely overwhelmed because we didn’t expect it to be so touching.’Andreas Helfrich, who was blessed alongside his husband Ralf Michael Berger, said the ceremony had been ‘important’ to him.