Surat: 135 Couples tie knots in mass marriage
Local businessman organizes mass marriages for poor and widows
A muslim bride Nazminbanu Khalifa signed on papers as others sit during a mass wedding.
SURAT, JAN 30 (UNI): Over 135 couples were married in a mass marriage ceremony in Surat on Sunday.
The mass marriage ceremony was organized by a local businessman from the city, to help poor, widows and destitute women.
With the brides dressed in traditional red and gold embroidered saris and the grooms in long tunics and turbans, 135 young couples tied the knot at a mass wedding in Gujarat diamond town.
The nuptials were hosted by Mahesh Savani, a diamond trader who has been paying
for the weddings of fatherless women in the city of Surat for several years. Savani first stepped in to play the role of the father in 2008, when one of his employees died a few days before the weddings of his two daughters.
Every year since then, Savani has paid for the weddings of young women from poor families who have lost their fathers.
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