</p> <p>Moscow marriage registry offices have banned live music and champagne receptions for “disrupting officials’ work.”</p> <p>Registry offices traditionally provided guests with music or food through outside contractors. But now officials are complaining that the extra requests to help guests organize musicians and food have left them inundated.<br /> </p><div class="hpaqn673a98419b56b" ><!-- Yandex.RTB R-A-749142-1 --> <div id="yandex_rtb_R-A-749142-1"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function(w, d, n, s, t) { w[n] = w[n] || []; w[n].push(function() { Ya.Context.AdvManager.render({ blockId: "R-A-749142-1", renderTo: "yandex_rtb_R-A-749142-1", async: true }); }); t = d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s = d.createElement("script"); s.type = "text/javascript"; s.src = "//an.yandex.ru/system/context.js"; s.async = true; t.parentNode.insertBefore(s, t); })(this, this.document, "yandexContextAsyncCallbacks"); </script></div><style type="text/css"> @media screen and (min-width: 1201px) { .hpaqn673a98419b56b { display: block; } } @media screen and (min-width: 993px) and (max-width: 1200px) { .hpaqn673a98419b56b { display: block; } } @media screen and (min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 992px) { .hpaqn673a98419b56b { display: block; 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