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2. Marriage in England and Wales - Wikipedia

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   Wedding ceremonies can either be conducted by "authorised celebrants" (sometimes, but not always, a minister of religion) or by an "authorised registrar". To be legally binding, they must take place with at least two other competent people present as witnesses. The marriage register is signed by the couple, the celebrant and two witnesses.

3. Coming of age - Wikipedia

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   Traditionally, the ceremony was held on the Liberalia, the festival in honor of the god Liber, who embodied both political and sexual liberty, but other dates could be chosen for individual reasons. [4] Rome lacked the elaborate female puberty rituals of ancient Greece, and for girls, the wedding ceremony was in part a rite of passage for the ...

4. Civil marriage - Wikipedia

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   Religious ceremonies could still be performed, but only for couples who had already been married in a civil ceremony. Napoleon later spread this custom throughout most of Europe. In present-day France, only civil marriage has legal validity. A religious ceremony may be performed after or before the civil union, but it has no legal effect.

5. Funeral - Wikipedia

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   Congregations of varied denominations perform different funeral ceremonies, but most involve offering prayers, scripture reading from the Bible, a sermon, homily, or eulogy, and music. [2] [11] One issue of concern as the 21st century began was with the use of secular music at Christian funerals, a custom generally forbidden by the Catholic Church.

6. Bedding ceremony - Wikipedia

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   A satirical cartoon by Isaac Cruikshank of Princess Charlotte and Prince Frederick being led to bed by a party including her parents, King George III and Queen Charlotte. The bedding ceremony refers to the wedding custom of putting the newlywed couple together in the marital bed in front of numerous witnesses, usually family, friends, and neighbors, thereby completing the marriage.

7. Sacraments of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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   For a valid marriage, a man and a woman must express their conscious and free consent to a definitive self-giving to the other, excluding none of the essential properties and aims of marriage. If one of the two is a non-Catholic Christian, their marriage is licit only if the permission of the competent authority of the Catholic Church is obtained.

8. Ayie - Wikipedia

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   Ayie takes place in homesteads like these. Ayie is the first of two stages of a traditional marriage ceremony of the Luo tribe of Kenya and Tanzania.The ceremony involves the payment of a bride price by the groom to the mother of the bride.

9. Mystery of Crowning - Wikipedia

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   A couple marrying according to the Mystery of Crowning at a Byzantine Rite Catholic wedding The Mystery of Crowning is a ritual component of the sacrament of marriage in Eastern Christianity . Variations of the crowning ceremony exist in multiple liturgical rites , including the Byzantine , Coptic , West Syriac , and East Syriac Rites of the ...