AKIPRESS.COM - The Prime Minister of Luxembourg is taking advantage of the new gay marriage laws by getting married himself.

Xavier Bettel and architect Gauthier Destenay have been civil partners since 2010.

The tiny European duchy of Luxembourg is the only country in the world to have both a gay Prime Minister and Deputy, Etienne Schneider.

Sources told AFP that Bettel and Destenay want the service to be private, and have declined to have press photographers at the event.

"He does not want to put his private life in the public spotlight and he has turned down requests from the celebrity magazines to cover the event," a friend told the agency.