30 pairs of newlyweds take part in a group wedding ceremony at the 35th China Harbin Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo at Sun Island Park in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, on Feb 11, 2023. [Photo by Liu Yang/For chinadaily.com.cn]
 
Thirty pairs of newlyweds took part in a group wedding ceremony on Saturday at the 35th China Harbin Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo at Sun Island Park in Heilongjiang province.
 
In the romantic world of white ice and snow, bridegrooms in military uniforms and brides in white wedding dresses exchanged their promises of love.
 
30 pairs of newlyweds take part in a group wedding ceremony at the 35th China Harbin Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo at Sun Island Park in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, on Feb 11, 2023. [Photo by Liu Yang/For chinadaily.com.cn]

The grooms are all from a unit of the People's Liberation Army in Harbin, and their brides came to Harbin from 14 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, including Beijing, Chongqing, Jiangxi, Shaanxi and Hunan.
 
After the ceremony, the young couples visited Harbin Ice and Snow World, an 810,000-square-meter amusement park that combines ice, snow, sound and lights.
 
Since the first ice and snow group wedding ceremony held in 1985, 1,243 couples from all over the world have traveled to marry during the Harbin ice festival, a major annual event for the city.
 
30 pairs of newlyweds take part in a group wedding ceremony at the 35th China Harbin Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Expo at Sun Island Park in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, on Feb 11, 2023. [Photo by Liu Yang/For chinadaily.com.cn]