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Article: 44 Muslim couples tie knot at Gwalior mass marriage
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- The Hindustan Times
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- May 7, 2007
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Gwalior, May 7 -- Forty-four Muslim couples, belonging to poor families, tied the nuptial knot at a mass marriage here.
Organised by an Islamic charity organisation, the marriages were conducted as per Islamic rituals in a huge makeshift hall.
The grooms were dressed in white and wearing elaborately decorated bright saffron turbans arrived at the venue riding horses accompanied by their relatives and friends.
Rubina Khan, a bride, said such mass marriages should be encouraged.
"My parents are poor and could not afford to marry me off. I think it is great I was married in this manner. I think everyone should get ...