Friday is the weekly holy day and it asks nothing. There is no service, no fast, no attendance and no prohibition — the observance consists of not doing very much, and Pastafarians describe the day as a holiday rather than a duty. The satire is precise: it isolates the one feature every weekly sabbath shares, a day marked off from the others, and removes everything else, leaving the reader to ask what the rest was for. In practice Friday is also where the church's social life happens, such as it is, and where the ordination business and the wedding business are conducted. New Zealand's approval of Pastafarian marriage celebrants in December 2015 gave the day a legal function it had never had, and the first recognised Pastafarian wedding was held at Akaroa on 16 April 2016.