0 to perform the official marriage ceremony, especially as part of a religious ceremony in a church --
Anglican deacons may baptize and in some dioceses are granted licences to solemnize matrimony, usually under the instruction of their parish priest and bishop.
A marriage or civil partnership must be solemnized by a marriage officer in the presence of the partners and two witnesses.
Marriages are also solemnized here on a large scale.
Ministers preach the word, baptize, assist deacons in anointing, solemnize marriages, and officiate at communion.
He was also long a justice of the peace, and solemnized many marriages.
This affection eventually solemnized in the form of a rakhi symbolically.
Some states allow anyone to solemnize a marriage.
Where a marriage took place in prison, there would appear on the marriage certificate an identifiable address showing that the marriage had been solemnized in prison.
