The couples were gifted with free wedding rings, make-up services, wedding outfits and flowers, wedding celebrations and photos, along with 10 million VND in cash. (Source: http://kyluc.vn) HCM City (VNA) – A mass wedding for 50 couples, featuring people with disabilities, washeld in Ho Chi Minh City on December 21 by the “Dao Phat Ngay nay” (BuddhismToday) Fund from the city’s Giac Ngo Pagoda.
Many of the couplesface difficult economic conditions and were unable to afford a weddingotherwise, despite having lived together for years and some even with children.
They were gifted with freewedding rings, make-up services, wedding outfits and flowers, weddingcelebrations and photos, along with 10 million VND in cash.
Most Venerable ThichNhat Tu, head of the Giac Ngo Pagoda and founder of the Buddhism Today Fund,said that the organisation of the mass wedding hoped to convey warm wishes of ahappy and harmonious marriage to the couples.
Pham Thanh Quy and hisbride Tran Thi Hong Ngoc expressed how moved they were by occasion, havingdreamt about the wedding that they could not afford for seven years.
“Our lives areattached to the wheelchair, we never imagined that one day we would be able togive each other a wedding ring. Therefore, today is a sweet memory that we willnever forget, a significant milestone in our lives,” they stated.
Another couple, Ho TanDat and his bride Nguyen Thi Nhung, both 36 years old and residing in Cu Chidistrict, said that although they have lived together with two children for 10years, they had never thought of organising a wedding. They said that theyregistered for the mass wedding with the hope that they would get the chance torealise their life-long dream of becoming a groom and a bride.
On the occasion, theVietnam Record Association (Vietkings) recognised Giac Ngo Pagoda as havingorganised the largest mass wedding for the most number of couples in Vietnam.-VNA
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