31.   Local officials checked the dowry, then helped the elephants put trunk prints on jumbo-sized marriage certificates, before presenting them with garlands of yellow flowers.

32.   Navajo officials have complained that widows of dead miners have been denied compensation because they were married in traditional Indian ceremonies and do not have marriage certificates.

33.   She contested the will, showing her marriage certificate and saying that she and Fung never divorced.

34.   The couple has been charged with illegally having sex outside marriage, although Ahson has produced their marriage certificate before the court.

35.   The court then asked that she provide a marriage certificate as proof.

36.   The intelligence chief promised to provide the newspaper with a marriage certificate, but reneged, Ncube testified.

37.   The London-based Guinness verified her age through her certificates of birth and baptism, census records, two marriage certificates and other documents.

38.   The Rev. Brent Hawkes presided over the ceremony and issued a marriage certificate, but he acknowledged the Ontario provincial government said it would refuse to register the marriages.

39.   The swimming couples, accompanied by officials as witnesses, would exchange rings and sign waterproof marriage certificates, the organizers said in a statement.

40.   The suit asks the court to force the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, which oversees marriages and death certificates, to issue marriage certificates to the couples.