About 500 couples celebrated their unions under a blue sky in a New York event aimed at healing the wounds of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Garlands on their heads, the couples, many of them already married, walked in procession before a symbolic ceremony by an imam, a rabbi and a pastor.
Some could hardly hold back their tears. "We were supposed to get engaged on March 24, 2020 in Hawaii, but obviously the pandemic cancelled everything," Erica Hackman told AFP, hanging on her husband Richard's arm in the festive atmosphere at Damrosch Park.
The couple, who are expecting a child, got married the following year on a rooftop with just immediate family members in attendance. "Everybody wore masks," recalled 35-year-old Erica. "It was a very small wedding...