Iconic singer Sir Elton John has decided to tie the knot with his longtime partner David Furnish, exactly nine years after first exchanging vows for their civil partnership, on December 21. The couple has decided to have a small intimate affair at their estate in Windsor in front of 50 guests.

According to the Daily Mirror, the couple’s sons Zachary and Elijah, aged 3 and nearly 2 respectively, will be ring-bearers.

The news came after it became legal to covert civil partnerships into marriages earlier this month.

“If the laws are going to help us again, as a famous gay couple, we will do it,” the singer said, as reported by Global News.

Talking to the Las Vegas Review-Journal in March, Furnish said: “We don’t feel the need to take an extra step legally,” he said. “But since we’re committed for life, we feel it’s really important to take that step, and take advantage of that amazing change in legislation. We all live by example."

He further added, “My god, when I started seeing Elton, if you asked me if I’d be able to get married, if I’d be able to have children, it was unthinkable, literally unimaginable.”

The couple will say their vows in front of close friends and family including David and Victoria Beckham, Elizabeth Hurley and Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, to name a few.