registry-office

It was a muddy morning in March when Raye alighted from a four-wheel cab at the door of a registry-office in the S.W. district of London, and carefully handed down Anna and her companion Mrs. Harnham.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

The children were given the name Ackerley and even Roger's business partner, Stockley, believed there had been a registry-office marriage.

Papa Was a Wise Old Sly-Boots Auden, W.H. 1969

DEAR MOIRA, -- I am glad to say Emma has gone and I am putting my name down at a registry-office in the usual way.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919 Various

Two days later her ladyship slips away to London early in the morning, and they're married at a registry-office.

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories 1928

The strange admixture of orange-blossom and registry-office was not the only strange thing about the wedding.

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

He was Hugo, with extraordinary resources at hand, but a quite ordinary circumstance, such as ten minutes spent in a registry-office, will sometimes outweigh all the resources in the world when the success of a scheme hangs in the balance.

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

She objected to the registry-office at first, but in the end she agreed, on the condition that I got her a spray of orange-blossom to wear at her breast.

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

Only, she had been married on the very morning of those boastful words by license at a registry-office to Francis Tudor.

Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Arnold Bennett 1899

Corps, but just the family (like being married at a registry-office, don't you think?).

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 Various 1898

To have a fire without a fire-engine is like being married at a registry-office.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-14 Various 1898