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WATCH ABOVE: Couples from all over the world were in attendance.

GAPYEONG, SOUTH KOREA – Thousands of Unification Church members wearing white wedding gowns and tuxedos held a mass wedding ceremony at a stadium in South Korea on Tuesday.

3,800 couples from more than fifty countries attended the event at the Cheongshim World Peace Centre in Gapyeong, about 60 kilometres (37 miles) northeast of Seoul.

Eight hundred couples were getting married for the first time.

The leader of the Unification Church, Hak Ja Han, led the ceremony which was first held in the early 1960s, and has since grown in scale over the years.

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