marriages on 10-10-10 marks wedded bliss to many

Sunday was a special day for the usually quiet Family Court. Many people were waiting at the unusually packed waiting room for their wedded bliss to begin.

“Marriage was planned a long time back. Though it was planned for the beginning of this year, we delayed it to make it more special.” Nashraf Abdullah who was waiting to be married said.

Most people marry today to make their marriage “special.”

“I plan on marrying once. What we do, we must do it perfectly, isn’t it? There would not be a day as awesome as this,” a youth leaving the court after the marriage said.

“I want to remember this day.”

The marriages were performed “specially” on this special day at the Family Court, as 24 out of 50 planned to be carried out in the court was done in groups.

“Our court has the capacity to perform 10 marriages at once. So we exercised that. Including the witnesses and photographers the court room has the capacity to hold 70 people,” Marriage Registrar at the court Ahmed Abdulla said.

“I do not want the waiting room to get over crowded. But a lack of capacity caused it.”

As is in most countries, many people plan to marry on the catchiest dates of every year. In the Maldives, 87 marriages were performed on 08-08-08, 56 on 07-07-07 and 63 on 06-06-06.