Moscow Marriage Registry Bans ‘Inconvenient’ Music and Food

</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="xagly6632bb6ff3086" > <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) { .xagly6632bb6ff3086 { display: block; } } @media screen and (min-width: 993px) and (max-width: 1200px) { .xagly6632bb6ff3086 { display: block; } } @media screen and (min-width: 769px) and (max-width: 992px) { .xagly6632bb6ff3086 { display: block; } } @media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 768px) { .xagly6632bb6ff3086 { display: block; } } @media screen and (max-width: 767px) { .xagly6632bb6ff3086 { display: block; } } </style> <p><span>“We have decided to cease all cooperation with [contracted musicians and caterers] from May 1, 2017, due to numerous requests [we have to deal with] on providing these services,“ </span><span>the deputy head of Moscow’s registry offices, Marina Maslova,</span><span><a target="_blank" href="//izvestia.ru/news/707786" rel="noopener">told Russian tabloid Izvestia.</a></span><br /> </p> <p>The new rules will be added to Moscow registry offices’ extensive list of banned wedding merriments, which include drinking alcohol, breaking glasses, or throwing flower petals, rice or confetti.</p> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-template-part"> <div style="height:0" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <div class="wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained" style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)"> <hr class="wp-block-separator alignwide has-css-opacity is-style-wide"/> <div class="wp-block-columns alignwide has-small-font-size is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex" style="margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)"> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-layout-1 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <div class="wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-layout-4 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex"> <p> Posted </p> <div class="wp-block-post-date"><time datetime="2017-05-16T12:45:00+00:00">May 16, 2017</time></div> <p> in </p> <div class="taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms"><a href="https://cultureru.com/category/news/" rel="tag">News</a></div> </div> <div class="wp-block-group is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-layout-5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex"> <p> by </p> <div class="wp-block-post-author"><div class="wp-block-post-author__content"><p class="wp-block-post-author__name">admin</p></div></div> </div> </div> <div class="wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-layout-2 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow"> <div class="wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-layout-6 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex"> <p> Tags: </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <section class="wp-block-template-part"> <div class="wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained" style="padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)"> </div> </section> </main> <footer class="wp-block-template-part">  <script type="text/javascript" > (function(m,e,t,r,i,k,a){m[i]=m[i]||function(){(m[i].a=m[i].a||[]).push(arguments)}; 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