celebrate a marriage

"Hey National Enquirer and your sister publications, why not celebrate a marriage of 22 years and relationship of 27 years? Because, despite your endless harassment and wasted ink, we are nearing 3 decades of love, commitment, respect, family and home. There's your 'scoop' from a 'reliable source.'"

It’s a microcosm of a national trend among multiethnic couples tying the knot in elaborate ways to celebrate a marriage of cultures.

But the conviction of her heart is that marriage is between one man and one woman, so Stutzman stood up for her artistic and religious freedom and politely declined to celebrate a marriage ceremony with which she disagreed.

In the Telugu country, the services of a member of the Bōya caste are required if a Brāhman wishes to perform Vontigadu, a ceremony by which he hopes to induce favourable auspices, under which to celebrate a marriage.

They were contracted at first to avoid the expenses attendant on the public ceremony, but an act of 1696, which imposed a penalty of �100 on any clergyman who celebrated, or permitted another to celebrate, a marriage otherwise than by banns or licence, acted as a considerable check.