The ninth mass wedding was held yesterday at Bahrain University, in the presence of His Majesty’s representative for charity work and youth affairs and Royal Charity Organisation chairman Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa.
A total of 1,200 brides and grooms tied the knot in the largest ever mass wedding supported by the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation.
The ceremony was also attended by UAE Ambassador Shaikh Sultan bin Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Southern Governor Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali Al Khalifa, RCO secretary general Dr Mustafa Al Sayyed and Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation director general Mohammed Khoury.
Shaikh Nasser congratulated the brides and grooms on the occasion and commended the foundation for supporting Bahraini youth, hailing the mass wedding as embodying strong historic relations between the two brotherly countries and peoples.

Shaikh Nasser at the ceremony