marriage bureau
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The second-most popular specialty wedding date on record with the county’s marriage bureau is Nov. 11, 2011, when 3,125 couples tied the knot.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
Same-sex marriage is not recognized in South Korea, so Kim and her fiancee flew to New York last year to tie the knot in a Manhattan marriage bureau.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2020
Investigators have also turned up at least one Muslim cleric running a marriage bureau from his madrassa, or religious school.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2019
He refused to talk to the AP, but his wife Razia told the AP that they make arrangements through a Chinese marriage bureau in Islamabad.
From Fox News ● May 7, 2019
Their confessional is a kind of marriage bureau; they have always got some plan on for marrying this person to that, and I must say I hate all that sort of thing….
From Celibates by George (George Augustus) Moore
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