Why Do Moonies Have Mass Weddings?
The Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony Is a Large-Scale Wedding or Marriage Rededication Ceremony Sponsored by the Unification Church. It Is Given to Married or...
The Holy Marriage Blessing Ceremony is a large-scale wedding or marriage rededication ceremony sponsored by the Unification Church. It is given to married or engaged couples. ... For Unificationists, these interracial, interreligious and international mass marriage ceremonies symbolize the family as the hope for peace.
Why are there mass weddings?
Mass weddings are sometimes preferred for economic and social reasons, such as the reduction of costs for the venue, officiants, decorations, as well as the celebrations afterwards which can sometimes be shared between multiple families.
What is Moonie mass wedding?
Moonies' mass wedding held in South Korea. About 3,000 couples from around the world have taken part in a mass wedding at the South Korean headquarters of the controversial Unification Church. The Church's mass weddings - which take place regularly - began in the 1960s. The BBC's Steve Evans reports.
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