Couples celebrates St Valentine´s Day

cctv.com 02-15-2006 15:48

Couples across the world have celebrated St Valentine's Day, with a variety of romantic gestures and traditions - some more conventional than others. This year's Valentine's Day was an unforgettably romantic one for the several thousand couples who got married.

At the Great Wall of China, lovers carved their names and declarations of love into a "love wall" - for a hundred and twenty-four US dollars on a signal brick.

In Rome - the city that gave birth to the legend of Saint Valentine - couples have been celebrating in more conventional ways.

The restaurants were doing good business - as were the florists.

In one of Rome's oldest chocolate shops, people were queuing up to buy Valentine's presents.

In Peru, more than two hundred couples declared their undying love at a mass wedding ceremony in Callao.

The event was organized by the mayor's office and gave many who could not afford private ceremonies, a cheaper alternative.

This is an annual tradition where city authorities donate some of their facilities to give people a lower cost option.

In the Russian city of St. Petersburg, five couples celebrated their Valentine's Day by getting married in an ice house.

The house was built to resemble the ice palace that Empress Anna Ioannovna had constructed for the wedding of her two court clowns in 1740.

In Thailand, seven couples married on Tuesday at a ghoulish mass wedding ceremony in Pattaya. The couples all married in "horror" film outfits, splattered with blood and live scorpions.

In the Iraqi capital, young men and women roamed a flower market central Baghdad.

Meanwhile, in Mexico City, a judge married a hundred and fourteen couples in a mass civil wedding in the city's town hall.

New York City also saw couples getting married in a mass ceremony on the Empire State Building.

Editor:Wang Ping  Source:CCTV.com