I just tell them I agree with Elton John on the subject...
"I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership," John says. "The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. "You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships."
I use that one as well and add that with marriage comes divorce. Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.