The health department in the US state of Washington looks set to remove the words “bride” and “groom” from marriage 
and divorce certificates, after same-sex marriage was approved in a referendum last month.
Spaces once reserved for a “bride” and “groom” will become more gender-neutral, according to MyNorthWest.com.
“Obviously those words aren’t going to fit everybody,” said health department spokesman, Mr Tim Church.
He said: “We are proposing a change where it will say something like ‘Spouse A’ and ‘Spouse B’.”
Officials are seeking to change the wording on marriage and divorce certificates before the new law permitting same-sex marriage comes into effect on December 6th.
The state began changing legal document wording before the public vote even happened, according to spokesman Tim Church.
“So we could have it moving ahead, because the time between the vote and the law taking effect was only 30 days,” he said. “So we started the process knowing we could just stop it if the initiative did not pass.”
Thirty-two U.S. states have voted against redefining marriage, but three voted in favour last month.
The UK Government has said the words “husband” and “wife” will have to be removed from official documents if marriage is redefined.
And in France, the words “mother” and “father” are set to be stripped from official documents, under its plans to redefine marriage.
Meanwhile, it appears that David Cameron’s plan to legalise same-sex marriage could lead to the biggest rebellion of Tory MPs he has yet faced.
Some 118 Tory MPs – more than a third of the party’s representatives- have indicated to their constituents that they are uneasy about the highly controversial move, according to The Daily Mail.