solemnizing
solemnising BrE

Declaring himself willing to risk fines and jail in a fight for constitutionally protected equal rights, Mr. West acted after the police warned him that solemnizing marriages without a license could result in prosecution for a criminal misdemeanor.

At the point where the structure of the piece would by its own implicit grammar lead to a sweetly beautiful solemnising of the main theme and a gentle resolution of the whole, I change it all completely.

We thought once to have blessed the day wherein the king came home again, but now we think we shall have reason to curse it; and if any of you come here in order to the solemnising of this day, we desire you to remove."