solemnize

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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

Jennifer Elysia Holland and Steven Gilman Dannenberg were married Nov. 3 in Bolton, Vt. Nina Pascal Butler, who received permission from Vermont to solemnize the marriage, officiated at the Ponds at Bolton, an events space.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2018

North Carolina has attempted to accommodate officials like Davis, allowing some register of deeds workers who assemble marriage licenses and magistrates who solemnize civil marriages to recuse themselves.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2015

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

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2014

Father Lacombe was called upon to bless and solemnize many such matches, to baptize many children, and to teach and preach what scores knew but vaguely or not at all.

From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Ralph, Julian