KIDDERMINSTER Town Hall will be ringing the wedding bells for the first gay couple to be married under its roof next month.

Danny Mellor and Richard Coleman are having their fairytale wedding in the landmark building after it became the town's registrar following the closure of the district's register office at the Council Offices, Woodfield, Bewdley Road.

But despite the historic occasion for the town hall since the legalising of same-sex marriage in the UK last year, the couple are just ready to be married to each other.

Richard said: "The town hall said it's the first same-sex wedding for them so we wanted to tell the world to show the normality of life."

The grooms-to-be first contacted churches to host their wedding after unsuccessful attempts at trying to recreate the famous outdoor wedding from Twilight: Breaking Dawn, but many were still awaiting authorisation to perform same-sex ceremonies so were unable to book them in. Then on the off chance, they took a look at the town hall.

"The decision to get married wasn't rushed - we should have saved for years for the picture perfect wedding but we want to get married to each other and a big expensive wedding would have been for everyone else, not for us," Richard said.

But they have still done everything they wanted and brought the outdoors in.

Both Danny, 31, and Richard, 33, who met when Richard took a job at Danny's place of work as a care worker in March last year, have picked and dried flowers for the tables, created a centre piece out of wood, crystals, shells, leaves, flowers, and have even incorporated lost family members by adding feathers and ashes.

Danny said: "That's how we wanted it - handmade and from us. Everything we've made is from us."

When asked about the legalisation of same-sex marriage, both Richard and Danny, who are planning to foster children after they are married, agreed that love is blind.

Richard said: "Love is love - and it's as simple as that.

"It doesn't matter where you go in life there will be people who disagree with it, but as long as it;s your life and you're not hurting anyone or hurting yourself or breaking the law, what does it matter? It's 2015, not 1954."

Danny said: "I have always been asking for that person to support me and be a partner for me, and that's who Rich is to me and I couldn't ask for anymore."

In August Danny and Richard will be walking down the aisle in the King Charles room at Kidderminster Town Hall to A Thousand Years by Christina Perri marking a historic occasion in their lives as well as in the history of hall.

Joanne Bowkett, deputy town hall manager, said: "The town hall is delighted to be the new home of the Kidderminster Registration Office and we are very much looking forward to welcoming all the couples sharing their very special day with us.

"We wish Danny and Richard many years of happiness together and thank them for allowing us to celebrate with them the town hall’s first same-sex marriage.

"A new era for the town hall has begun."

For more information about weddings at the town hall, visit kidderminstertownhall.org.uk.