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Také "wedding officer", viz Tools -> Web Term Search zde na ProZ.com

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A registrar is not always authorised to perform a wedding as this mostly refers to the official papers involved in the ceremony, rather than the ceremony itself.

A (Wedding) Officiant is used in civil as well as religious ceremonies.

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Taken from Answers.com, indicating that officiant is used in both civil and religious ceremonies (Interesting enough, Registrar is not mentioned here, yet they do mention the registry office):

Weddings
The ceremony in which a marriage is enacted and announced to the community is called a wedding. A wedding in which a couple marry in the "eyes of the law" is called a civil marriage. Religions also facilitate weddings, in the "eyes of God." In many European and some Latin American countries, where someone chooses a religious ceremony, they must also hold that ceremony separate from the civil ceremony. Certain countries, like Belgium and the Netherlands even legally demand that the civil marriage has to take place before any religious marriage. In some countries, notably the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Spain both ceremonies can be held together; the **officiant** at the RELIGIOUS AND COMMUNITY CEREMONY also serves as an agent of the state to enact the civil marriage. That does not mean that the state is "recognizing" religious marriages; the "civil" ceremony just takes place at the same time as the religious ceremony. Often this involves simply signing a register during the religious ceremony. If that civil element of the full ceremony is left out for any reason, in the eyes of the law no marriage took place, irrespective of the holding of the religious ceremony.

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=tx2o79rkj8ce?...

Here is also an interesting transcript of a debate on changing wording on a bill, none the less, where a religious group is against the word officiant in Ireland: http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/finance/moe/moe020924.htm

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This is the term you would use in Australia, although I am not sure if that is what you're after. If you want to pinpoint a role of a person employed or designated for performing as a marriage celebrant at the City Council then that is hard to do - it can be one of the councillors as mentioned above, but it can be a licenced celebrant contracted to do so at the offices of the Council. But it is obviously a marriage celebrant of some type...

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I just wanted to comment briefly on the debate re: 'registrar'. It is not only an admin term (as to a keeper of the marriage records) but also a term for a person that physically does perform the actual civic wedding ceremony i.e. non-religious in the United Kingdom (at least mine & my friends' wedding ceremonies did :)
However, the terms are going to differ from country to country (UK, Australia, USA & Canada, etc), depending on the type of the ceremony & legislation of each coun

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in UK, read more at www.horsleyhall.co.uk/wedding_ceremony.htm
(Civil ceremony can be conducted by Licence or Certificate and requires...)

in Australia Civil Marriage Celebrant www.vlady-celebrant.com

in USA someone who has Credentials to Perform Marriages (before someone can perform marriages ceremonies in XY, they must first file their certificate of ordination...)