The wedding gowns were snow white as seven dwarf couples were married in a mass ceremony.

The little couples celebrate after their joint-wedding (Picture: Reuters)

Thousands of well-wishers turned out to cheer on the newlyweds, who all perform with a theatrical troupe.Cheers went up as the brides and grooms kissed and embraced, acknowledging to the crowd and waving bouquets of red roses in Beijing, China.Some 45 actors aged between 21 and 27 – with an average height of 1.26m (4ft 2in) – belong to the Louzaitian Shadow Play Theatre.They come from across China, having fled ill-treatment in their original hometowns, and live in a community together to avoid discrimination.One of the grooms said: ‘We live in our own community and spend our lives making people happy.‘People can be short but our love will never be dwarfed.’Shadow play theatre – popular across China – sees performers manoeuvring oil lamps and leather cut-out figures to depict myths and fairytales.Another group of dwarfs have established their own mountain village and theme park near the city of Kunming, in China’s southern Yunnan province.Members of the so-called Kingdom Of The Dwarfs, which has its own police force, fire brigade and tourist attraction ‘mushroom huts,’ must be 1.3m (4ft 3in) or shorter.

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