20,000 COUPLES WED AT ONCE... AND MORE WEIRD NEWS

More than 20,000 church followers gathered for the ceremony at a stadium in Gapyeong, 47 miles northeast of Seoul.

                            

The founder of the church, Sun Myung Moon, and his wife were there to bless the mass ceremony. They sprinkled holy water over selected couples and declared them married.

"The mass wedding leads all mankind to be one, removing the boundaries of ethnicities, religions and nationalities. Our goal is making the world peaceful with forming new families," said Seuk Joon-ho, President of the Unification Church of Korea.

Couples from South Korea and abroad hugged each other and celebrated after exchanging wedding rings.

"This whole experience has been absolutely amazing. I mean really really happy to have met Lisun (his bride) and really happy that we are together now and really look forward to years ahead and so getting to know her well," said a bridegroom Chouchane Saemie, from the UK.

The church has been derided for its mass weddings as thousands of participants were matched with future spouses whom some of them had just met before the ceremony, and in many cases, did not speak the same language.

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