Amazing wedding photos from around the world
Fees, ransom, registry office, painting, photo session with champagne breaks and, finally, a banquet. Familiar? Yes, yes, almost all weddings took place according to a long-established scenario ... before. Do you think your wedding was original? Or just looking for inspiration for an unusual ceremony? Look at this selection of photos - and you will understand that the traditional marriage ceremony has long faded into the background. Now all sorts of madness is in fashion. Especially when you are the bride and groom!
(Total 27 photos)
1. Grooms carry their brides during a mini-marathon in honor of the New Year in Sanya, China. (Photo by Andy Gao/Reuters)
2. Akemi Kito and Hiroshi Matsuoka decided to seal their union in the ice chapel of the "Iglu Village" on Lake Shikaribetsu on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Why not? (Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
3. These newlyweds prefer warmer climates. (Photo by Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters)
4. And these newlyweds generally decided, as they say, to plunge into the ocean of their love - in the aquarium in Manila. (Photo by Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters)
5. This Tokyo couple had a humanoid robot as their witness. The fact is that Tomohiro Shibata (left) and Satoko Inoue met at a robot development company, so it’s hard to imagine a better witness than this humanoid robot. (Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)
6. Bride Yulia Tagil decided to come to the ceremony in Tel Aviv on a bike. The alternative marriage ceremony is a way of showing that Jews can break away from wedding traditions. (Photo by Nir Elias/Reuters)
7. Newlywed couple - Joey Baio and Lia plant a mangrove tree after a mass wedding ceremony called "Love with Nature" in San Jose, Philippines. (Photo by Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
8. Newlyweds on a bicycle on a footbridge in downtown Beijing. This is one of the so-called "naked weddings" - this is the name of a wedding without a restaurant, cars and large expenses. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)
9. Groom Kong Qinyan and bride Sheen Likun on a forklift that turned into a wedding car. Kong used to work as a forklift driver and his fiancée as a forklift salesman. It is not difficult to guess how they met. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)
10. Newlyweds walk past a stand with "delicious tacos" in Ciudad Juarez after a mass wedding ceremony. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)
11. This couple from Thailand - 29-year-old Prasit Rangsiyawon and 27-year-old Varuttaon Rangsiyavon decided to add a little extreme to their wedding and fly on a bungee. Similar entertainment for newlyweds in order to strengthen the relationship of future spouses is organized by one Thai resort. (Photo by Kerek Wongsa/Reuters)
12. All the same Thai couple on a bungee. (Photo by Kerek Wongsa/Reuters)
13. This madness is another idea of the same Thai resort. This time, three couples agreed to take part in a costumed show - run away from a pirate. Apparently, not everyone managed to escape from the evil corsair. (Photo by Kerek Wongsa/Reuters)
14. Newlyweds in a snowy park in the center of Milan. Here, the weather itself gave unusualness to the wedding - that year it was especially extreme. (Photo by Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)
15. Gerard Piper (center) kisses his fiancee Jan in the waters of English Bay after the 89th swim in Vancouver. The couple celebrated their wedding the day before by sailing through the icy waters of the bay. (Photo by Andy Clark/Reuters)
16. Erin Finnegan and Noah Fulmore sealed their marriage with a kiss ... in zero gravity, aboard a specially equipped Boeing 727, while flying over the Gulf of Mexico. We can say that this is the world's first wedding in zero gravity. During the hour-long flight, the plane had to perform all sorts of maneuvers, turns and descents to recreate the feeling of weightlessness without going into space. (Photo by Phelan Ebenhack/Reuters)
17. The bride poses with Israeli women soldiers at the Western Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. (Photo by Darren Whiteside/Reuters)
18. Brides travel by public bus to Neuschwanstein Castle in Fuessen. About 15 Chinese couples, already married in China, traveled to Germany to repeat their vows at one of Europe's most popular venues. (Photo by Michael Dalder/Reuters)
19. Melissa and Rick Clark leave Times Square after celebrating the New Year and their wedding. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters)
20. Newlyweds Sin Andersen and Rune Yamrat (right) got married right at the World Santa Claus Convention in an amusement park north of Copenhagen. And that Piero in the background is the father of the bride, who works in this park. Cheerful father-in-law went to Sin! (Photo by Casper Christoffersen/Reuters/Scanpix)
21. Ramoncito Campo kisses his already wife Harnely Ruazol Campo on a flooded street in Manila. The newlyweds decided to legalize their relationship, despite the flood. This is love! (Photo by Reuters/Courtesy of Ramoncito Campo/Handout)
22. Evgeny Okaevich and his fiancee Galina Grann from Kyiv preferred bikes to cars. (Photo by Konstantin Chernichkin/Reuters)
23. Chinese couple pose for a photo in a busy lane in Beijing. The most popular day for weddings in China is the 8th, because this number is very similar in pronunciation to the word "fa", which is part of the popular expression "get rich". (Photo by Claro Cortes IV/Reuters)
24. And these are fast food fans - Marisela Matienzo and Carlos Munoz. Naturally, they got married at a McDonald's in the San Pedro Garza suburb. (Photo by Tomas Bravo/Reuters)
25. Newlyweds among cyclists on the second stage of the Giro d'Italia race. (Photo by Stefano Rellandini/Reuters)
26. Elena Babkina and her husband rode bicycles in Gorky Park in Moscow after registration. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Reuters)
27. Sergey Kaunov carries his fiancee Irina Kuzmenko out of the Yenisei on their wedding day in Krasnoyarsk. Sergei is an experienced walrus, but Irina had never swum in ice water before, but on this special day she decided to do it for her future husband. That's courage! (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)
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