As head of government the prime minister presides over the Council of State or cabinet.

A minister may preside, but, since less than 1 percent of the population is Christian, it's unlikely that the couple will share his affiliation.

Its minister will preside from the seventh floor, sandwiched between the two of the former bureaucracies from which it was formed.

However, the Pilgrims saw this arrangement as biblical, there being no evidence from Scripture that a minister should preside over a wedding.

In his year in office, the departing prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, presided over a rising wave of sectarian violence.

Behind those curtains, which rise to reveal the action, a rather rakish minister presides over his frantic congregation.

The prime minister will preside over the council of Government, which prepares the general policy of the state.

Under the authority of the president as commander-in-chief, the minister of defence presides over the National Defence Council.

They had no church but Melanie's minister can preside.

Among them was Arabella Ogilvie, 30, who said a Unitarian minister presided at her wedding in October.