With 1987's "The Secret Marriage" (from . . . Nothing Like the Sun) Sting attempted to answer [the question of marriage]. However, as the couple's children grew older, it became apparent that the kids wanted a formalization of their parents' relationship. And so, on August 20, 1992, the couple exchanged vows in a small, civil ceremony. Two days later Mr. and Mrs. Sting celebrated their official union with a full-blown private ceremony—an occasion so festive that even The Police reformed for a two-song set. Sting later called the ceremony "[t]he most romantic thing I've ever done. [. . .] We got married Aug. 22 in a 900-year-old Saxon church in England. It was a fabulous day. It rained until we made our promises, then the sun came through the stained-glass window."
After years of bad blood between the two, Sting and Frances eventually came to amicable terms. "I'm lucky. I have a very good relationship with all my kids and my ex-wife. I think we've done rather well. We're still good friends and we have something very important in common." And on 1995's "All This Time" CD-ROM, Sting discussed his taking the plunge a second time: "'The Secret Marriage' is my way of trying to justify or rationalize why I wasn't married to the woman I had lived with for 10 years. My justification was that we were already married in a way—that we expressed our vows to each other every day, but not in a big public ceremony. It wasn't until our kids got to around the age of 9 or 10 that they needed to have some sort of public demonstration that we were married, and it was their idea that we got married in a public way. Our marriage is a secret no longer."
With 1987's "The Secret Marriage" (from . . . Nothing Like the Sun) Sting attempted to answer [the question of marriage]. However, as the couple's children grew older, it became apparent that the kids wanted a formalization of their parents' relationship. And so, on August 20, 1992, the couple exchanged vows in a small, civil ceremony. Two days later Mr. and Mrs. Sting celebrated their official union with a full-blown private ceremony—an occasion so festive that even The Police reformed for a two-song set. Sting later called the ceremony "[t]he most romantic thing I've ever done. [. . .] We got married Aug. 22 in a 900-year-old Saxon church in England. It was a fabulous day. It rained until we made our promises, then the sun came through the stained-glass window." After years of bad blood between the two, Sting and Frances eventually came to amicable terms. "I'm lucky. I have a very good relationship with all my kids and my ex-wife. I think we've done rather well. We're still good friends and we have something very important in common." And on 1995's "All This Time" CD-ROM, Sting discussed his taking the plunge a second time: "'The Secret Marriage' is my way of trying to justify or rationalize why I wasn't married to the woman I had lived with for 10 years. My justification was that we were already married in a way—that we expressed our vows to each other every day, but not in a big public ceremony. It wasn't until our kids got to around the age of 9 or 10 that they needed to have some sort of public demonstration that we were married, and it was their idea that we got married in a public way. Our marriage is a secret no longer."