Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Dutch term or phrase:
trouwambtenaar
English translation:
registrar, solemniser, officiant, marriage officer (SA)
Dutch term
Trouwambtenaar
| 4 +1 | registrar, solemniser |
Chris Hopley
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| 5 +1 | Marriage officer |
Talitha Wilsnagh
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| 4 | Wedding civil servant |
Lucinda Hollenberg
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Dec 1, 2009 11:03: Chris Hopley Created KOG entry
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Proposed translations
Netherlands
Dutch & German to English
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK, Irish, US, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand)
Works in: German to English, Dutch to English, Flemish to English, and 1 more.
registrar, solemniser
'Registrar' would be my preferred option in the given context (civil wedding), but also because 'officiant' and 'solemniser' are not particularly pretty words, perhaps even jargonistic!
-> "to legally marry you require a Marriage Registration Form (MRF) from a Registrar and whoever is solemnising your marriage must be on the Register of Solemnisers."
http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/birth-family-re...
Native in: English
Works in: Dutch to English, Flemish to English, English, and 1 more.
Wedding civil servant
I do not know about 'wedding officiant.' To me a 'wedding officiant' is someone like a minister who performs the religious part of the wedding, eg in a church or other location. He or she does function as a civil servant and has the authority to marry people.
To me the 'trouwambtenaar' is the person who performs only the civil service at the Registry of birts, deaths and marriages.
I hope that this helps you and your client.
Good luck!
Lucinda
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Native in: English 
, Afrikaans
Works in: Dutch to English, Afrikaans to English, English to Afrikaans
Marriage officer
The marriage officer led the wedding ceremony.
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Annabel Rautenbach
: Definitely, another alternative could be marriage official, less clumsy than civil servant
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Thank you, Annabel
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Discussion
What Does The Word 'Officiant' Actually Mean?
|For most jurisdictions, the word "officiant" means the catch-all wedding marriage industry word for anyone legally-able to officiate a wedding marriage ceremony. This includes any marriage clergy, any wedding minister, all wedding pastors, officiates, officials, reverends, any civil non-religious ceremony officiant, i.e, no wedding officiants or wedding ministers who can "legally" officiate a wedding marriage would be excluded from this definition.
We hebben het dan wel over de Amerikaanse markt, zo lijkt het.
Succes!