It’s called a yearly group marriage. Every year, the ex-prime minister’s sister sponsors 100 couples in Lebanon – who are Palestinian or Lebanese – to get married. The group wedding happens in a sports stadium where people attend this mass celebration.
I remember trying to look up this event online having missed the actual thing which happened in the South. When I found no online sources, I relied on the conversation I had with my aunt at her apartment building across the stadium where the event took place. She describes it to me while we stood at her balcony one day.
Fast-Forward in time: Two Months later.
While talking on the phone with my mother …
Me: “ … and then I went to see aunty and she told me about that group-wedding”
Mom: “ Yes, I saw that on the Lebanese satellite channel, but didn’t you say Lebanese and Palestinian men are good-looking. I kept staring at the screen, they’re ugly”
Me: “ lol!’”
Mum: “ And the brides, they were too happy, dancing and singing all over that stadium. Must be the open space, they looked like they were about to take a run around that track in their wedding dresses too, like they’re on crack” (yes, mummy said that :-)
Me: “ umm, maybe they’re so happy because they get a free furnished apartment each one of them sponsored by the ex-prime minister’s sister”
Mum: “ What! You need to get your name on that marriage list”
Me: “ you think they’d toss in a husband along with that furnished apartment?”
:-)
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3 comments:
Asalaamu Alaikum
Are all the brides Christian? I don't see a single hijab in the bunch! Is it like a lottery..they pick your name out of a jar or is it first come first served?
haha...very cute!
C, it's a lottery based thing. And the picture in the post is random, not from the event. But isn't it all something, huh :-)
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