"Asian marriage"

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8 December 2025

A couple from Asia, with the woman wearing a white wedding dress, poses for a photoshoot on a stone waterfront area near moored gondolas, overlooking the Grand Canal with the San Giorgio Maggiore church and bell tower visible across the water in Venice, Veneto, Italy, on November 17, 2025. This area is a popular location for wedding photography and tourism.

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30 November 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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30 November 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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30 November 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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30 November 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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30 November 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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30 November 2025

Girls from the Newa community take part in the Bel Bibaha ceremony, in which they are symbolically married to a bael fruit (wood apple), at Banglamukhi Temple in Lalitpur, Nepal, on November 29, 2025. The ritual is performed for girls aged between 5 and 9 years, typically before they reach puberty. The ceremony, also called the Ihi ceremony, is rooted in Hindu and Tantric traditions and serves to protect girls from social stigma, especially widowhood. The fruit symbolizes the god Vishnu, ensuring the girl is symbolically married to a divine entity for life.

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1 August 2025

Ornate jeweled belts worn by brides during a traditional Moroccan wedding ceremony are displayed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 6, 2025.

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1 August 2025

Ornate jeweled belts worn by brides during a traditional Moroccan wedding ceremony are displayed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 6, 2025.

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18 June 2025

Poly Borman, from the fishing community near the Meghna River, leaves her parents' home for her husband's house a day after her wedding in a rural part of Chandpur, Bangladesh, on June 15, 2025.

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18 June 2025

Poly Borman, from the fishing community near the Meghna River, leaves her parents' home for her husband's house a day after her wedding in a rural part of Chandpur, Bangladesh, on June 15, 2025.

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18 June 2025

Poly Borman, from the fishing community near the Meghna River, leaves her parents' home for her husband's house a day after her wedding in a rural part of Chandpur, Bangladesh, on June 15, 2025.

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18 June 2025

Poly Borman, from the fishing community near the Meghna River, leaves her parents' home for her husband's house a day after her wedding in a rural part of Chandpur, Bangladesh, on June 15, 2025.

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18 June 2025

Poly Borman, from the fishing community near the Meghna River, leaves her parents' home for her husband's house a day after her wedding in a rural part of Chandpur, Bangladesh, on June 15, 2025.

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18 June 2025

Poly Borman, from the fishing community near the Meghna River, leaves her parents' home for her husband's house a day after her wedding in a rural part of Chandpur, Bangladesh, on June 15, 2025.

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18 June 2025

Poly Borman, from the fishing community near the Meghna River, leaves her parents' home for her husband's house a day after her wedding in a rural part of Chandpur, Bangladesh, on June 15, 2025.

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