celebrant

- Celebrant - A friend who did weddings in a another region was able to register with the city council to be our celebrant.

Very few same-sex couples are interested in getting married by a religious celebrant, considering said religions typically vilify their sexuality.

As a fellow celebrant, the Word can be seen as the operating system of life.

It is time for a prairie birthday, and in one corner of this graveyard lives a surviving celebrant of that once important event.

Thereupon, the priest or priestess in the booth confers upon the celebrant a special talisman to wear around the wrist at all times.

I think he did it in order to be the family marriage celebrant and whatnot.

Australia has civil marriage too – if couples do not want a religious ceremony, they can be married either by a government official or a professional civil celebrant.

By having to write the homily, the celebrant benefits from writing the homily as well, a benefit he would lose if he simply drew from a corpus of prewritten homilies.

My idea of using the factory pattern, for example, is not to write a MarriageFactory class, but to write a Celebrant class, and we may recognise that it embodies the factory pattern if that is helpful to the comprehension or authoring of the code.

They're so non-hierarchical that it required special legislation for them to marry as Quaker weddings have no "celebrant" taking the priest role.

All Masses include a prayer for the bishop(s) and pope; when the bishop is the celebrant, he refers to himself as God's "unworthy servant", and if it's the pope that formula morphs to "your most unworthy servant".

I'm a marriage celebrant here in Australia and a couple must, by law, give "one month" notice before they wish to be married.

I kid you not, at his wedding when the celebrant said, "Do you Susan, take this man Brian..." his bride exclaimed, "Who's Brian?"