Anthropology

Peru’s marriage rate is comparatively low, something that’s caught the attention of local officials. In order to turn it around, which officials have linked with improving local infrastructure and the local economy, officials are throwing mass wedding ceremonies and inviting long-time couples to attend.

Local officials in Lima are urging people to get married, which they say will lead to a more stable society. Officials are even sponsoring mass weddings. Annie Murphy went to one in the capital.

Many Japanese women look forward to having a Western-style, Christian wedding ceremony — because they like the pageantry of it all. But as they become more popular, there aren’t enough caucasian ministers, deemed essential to the true “white wedding,” to conduct them all.

Celebrity weddings make people sick, but when Prince William marries Kate Middleton, many in Great Britain are welcoming the distraction.

Languages represent more than vocabulary and grammar, and some people are fighting to save them.