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They happen as mass ceremonies or from the back of a van all over the world in many different traditions. In the United States alone more than 2 million weddings take place a year at a average cost of $30,000, according to the Bridal Association of America. Here's a look at some brides and grooms and the events surrounding their big day. -- Lloyd Young 

Brides speak to their grooms during a mass wedding ceremony in Amman, Jordan, on  July 6. An Islamic charity organized a mass wedding for 46 Jordanian and Syrian couples who are unable to afford expensive ceremonies. (Ali Jarekji/Reuters) 


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Newlyweds dressed in Han-dynasty costumes bow to each other during a traditional group wedding ceremony in Xi'an, Shaanxi province on May 1. A total of 130 couples from all over China attended the group wedding ceremony  following the nuptial rites of the Han Dynasty. (Reuters)  #



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A participant watches a performance during the annual Parade of Brides festival in the center of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk on June 17. About 100 young married women dressed in wedding and fancy dresses took part in the festival to experience their wedding day again. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)  #



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Rev. Andy Gonzalez officiates a wedding vows renewal ceremony between Jay Junio and Anne Junio of Calif. at the Las Vegas Wedding Wagon in the parking lot of the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign on Oct. 6 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Isaac Brekken/Getty Images)  #



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A Filipino couple make faces as they take a picture using their mobile phone during a mass wedding ceremony inside a chapel in Manila, Philippines, on June 17. (Aaron Favila/Associated Press)  #



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Gulzar Ahmad Khatana (22) a Kashmir Gujjar groom, sits on a horse as he returns back to his home after his wedding in Dard Khora on the outskirts of Srinagar on April 29. Gujjars, who are semi-nomadic tribe members, mainly inhabit Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. They herd goats, sheep and buffaloes and walk for miles with their cattle through the mountains during summer in search of good pastures and come down to the plains for the winter. (Danish Ismail/Reuters)  #



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Pakistani groom, Phaloos Sohtra, and his bride Shabana Gill pray during their wedding in a church in a Christian neighborhood in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Oct. 5. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)  #



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Ana Borjas (75) kisses her husband Luis Garcia (87) during the wedding of 412 couples during the Free Wedding ceremony in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Aug. 31. (Orlando Sierra/AFP/Getty Images)  #



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Soldiers guard a platform to prevent it from falling apart while newlyweds have their group photo taken during a military mass wedding ceremony in Taipei on May 10. A total of 264 couples tied the knot together on Thursday, with Minister of National Defense Kao Hua-chu as the witness for the ceremony. (Pichi Chuang/Reuters) #



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A Somali policeman, Mohamed Nuur, and his bride Nawaal Abdi walk togehter after their wedding ceremony in the Hodan district of the capital Mogadishu on May 14. Al Qaeda-affiliated al Shabaab rebels, who once controlled the district before being driven off by AMISOM troops, had banned social gatherings in the district. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)  #



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A newly-wed couple poses for wedding photos on a street corner in Shanghai, China, on April 16. (Eugene Hoshiko/Associated Press)  #



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Brunei's newly-wed royal couple, Muhammad Ruzaini, and Princess Hafizah Sururul Bolkiah recite a prayer during their wedding ceremony at Nurul Iman Palace in Bandar Seri Begawan on Sept. 23. Hafizah is the daughter of Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, one of the world's richest men. (Ahim Rani/Reuters)  #



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Chinese bridal couples take pictures after their symbolic wedding in Fuessen on May 31. The 15 Chinese couples who already got married in China, travelled to Germany to repeat their promise of marriage at Neuschwanstein Castle, one of the most popular destinations in Europe. (Michael Dalder/Reuters)  #



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You Ya-ting (left) and her partner Huang Mei-yu stamp their names in front of a statue of Buddha in the prayer hall as they are married in the first Taiwan same sex Buddhist ceremonial wedding in Taoyuan, Taiwan, on Aug. 11. Taiwan still does not legally recognize same sex marriage. (Wally Santana/Associated Press)  #



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Friends photograph Jason Welker (left) and Scott Everhart after their wedding ceremony at a comic book retail shop in Manhattan on June 20. The same-sex couple tied the knot at a comic-book store in New York to celebrate the first gay nuptials in the superhero world in a new edition from Marvel Comics. Midtown Comics delayed the opening of its downtown store for the wedding of Everhart, a healthcare site manager from Columbus, Ohio, and 33-year-old architect Welker. The real-life nuptials, complete with a band, balloons and decorations, coincided with the comic-book union of Jean-Paul Beaubier, aka Northstar, who can move and fly at superhuman speed, and his long-term partner, Kyle, in the series Astonishing X-Men #51. (drees Latif/Reuters) #

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