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Nine years later, when the United Kingdom allowed same-sex couples to solemnize their marriages in religious ceremonies, Ortega-Medina and his husband married in a Jewish ceremony at West London Synagogue.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

Kate Black, the groom’s sister who received temporary authorization from the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to solemnize this marriage, officiated.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2018

The wording he proposed would make clear that the government cannot force a clergy member to solemnize any marriage in violation of the clergy person’s religious beliefs.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 31, 2015

Questions about how to solemnize Constitution Day sometimes prove far more interesting than Constitution Day itself.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2014

Within four years the Legislature of Upper Canada passed Acts allowing the various religious denominations to hold lands for churches, parsonages, and burying-grounds, and also allowing their ministers to solemnize marriages.

From Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by J. Harold Putnam

This is followed by an audience participation segment, in which Edna solemnizes the marriage between two perfect strangers, one of whom happened to be already married.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2015

It solemnizes and legitimizes and dignifies those who have departed into the squalid indignity of death, departed in a way so inhuman that humanity wants to pile on posthumous kindnesses, posthumous significances.

From Time Magazine Archive

A something in a summer's day, As sIow her flambeaux burn away, Which solemnizes me.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

If they are published in two different parishes the clergyman of one parish must give a certificate of publication, which must be delivered to the clergyman who solemnizes the marriage.

From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose

A something in a summer's day, As slow her flambeaux burn away, Which solemnizes me.

From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

They lured religious leaders out of their homes by pretending to need a marriage solemnized.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 10, 2023

The couple’s Nov. 29 marriage took place at the clerk’s office of the County of Nevada in Nevada City, Calif. Carrie McReynolds, the deputy commissioner of marriages, solemnized their license.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

A grand boldness solemnized Mälkki’s performances of Russian scores by Tchaikovsky and Scriabin with the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2021

“It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

From Fox News ● Jul. 4, 2020

It is also our royal will and pleasure that Donna Estella shall be your bride, and that your nuptials be solemnized in this our palace of the Escurial.”

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

The Scottish Episcopal Church opened the door to solemnizing same-sex marriages in 2017, the Church of Scotland last May.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2023

Despite facing an outstanding arrest warrant for solemnizing Arzoo’s marriage, he continued his practice in his ramshackle office above a wholesale rice market in downtown Karachi.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 28, 2020

“I would really love the opportunity to participate in solemnizing Congress,” Barker said in an interview.

From Washington Post ● May 5, 2016

But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal luster, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of nature.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey

I know nothing which sounds so soothing, solemnizing, heart-touching, and moving to man's spirit, at that trying moment, as the wondrous utterance of the old inspired law-giver: "Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling-place."

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle