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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
registry office
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If you're tying the knot at a registry office, this timeless style is ideal.
▪ The registry office couldn't marry them at such short notice and they must wait until the following day.
▪ The feelings that are carried up the aisle or into the registry office are presumably countless.
▪ The offices, in an old registry office, are still being worked on.
▪ The witnesses were people who worked at the registry office.
▪ They were also married in a registry office.
▪ They were married at a registry office and had a quiet reception.

Usage examples of "registry office".

Westman said with a shrug, and the Land Registry Office inspector exhaled noisily.

His chrono showed it was time for Prime Facilitator Koytatik's duty to start at the registry office, something he'd taken care to ascertain earlier.

I'd confessed my past to her the night before, and she had seemed to forgive, but she must have slep' on it and changed her mind, because the fact remains that I waited a couple of hours at the Beak Street registry office and not a sign of her.

A woman like this may call herself a geisha and be listed at the registry office.

I found not a single allusion to Ellen's wedding, and based on the list of witnesses on the marriage certificate, no one in her family or Sickert's was present at the Registry Office, a very odd place for a first marriage in those days, especially when the bride was the daughter of Richard Cobden.

Oh, I see, you want me to marry you at a registry office to-morrow?

Day after tomorrow, some guy from the bloodstock registry office is going out.

Not saying anything about being a Catholic yourself, and even being quite ready to have a registry office wedding, even though you know that that sort of wedding means nothing at all.