Couples wed in mass ceremony – answers

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1. The mass wedding ceremony took place at Singapore’s Botanic Gardens to mark the attraction’s 150th anniversary.
2. Paper hearts bearing the couple’s hopes and dreams were hung on a wishing tree.
3. Throughout the afternoon vows were exchanged in brief ceremonies at twenty different locations around the gardens.
4. Many couples were seduced into marrying on this most auspicious of days, the twentieth day of the ninth month in the year 2009.
5. "We chose this because of the 209 209. To us it’s a very meaningful day."
6. " It represents , in Chinese, a lifetime of happiness and togetherness.
7. "I think it seems a little impersonal and the fact that people are actually queueing up to get married seems a bit strange to me".
8. The afternoon culminated with the newly married couples walking into the main grandstand area.