1,200 couples for mass wedding in Saudi

Saudi Arabia’s second largest city will organize its biggest massing wedding on Tuesday involving 1,200 couples from the Gulf kingdom, newspapers reported on Monday.

The Charity Marriage Society is fund the mass wedding in the western Red Sea port of Jeddah, to be sponsored by Prince Khaled Al Faisal of Makkah, a key royal figure who heads the Society.

“The event will last three days and will be attended by many officials, social experts and Muslim leaders,” Sharq daily said, adding that it would be Jeddah’s second but largest mass wedding.