Sundanese wedding in Indonesia.

Nubian wedding, near Aswan, Egypt.

Wedding ceremony at the Victory Monument in Minsk.

Wedding in Poland, 1936.

Bride and groom wearing traditional Bengali wedding costumes, from Bangladesh.

Ethnic Hakka people in a wedding in East Timor, 2006.

Japanese bride and groom, wearing white and black kimonos respectively. The Japanese bride-to-be is painted pure white from head to toe, visibly declaring her maiden status to the gods; a white hood is attached to her kimono, which the bride wears like a veil to hide her ‘horns of jealousy’ from the groom’s mother, who will now become the head of the family.

A wedding cake.

Two decorated mustangs.

Two grooms at their same-sex wedding in Wellington, New Zealand.

A new bride tossing her flower bouquet over her shoulder.