Schools from time to time organize events and invite their alumni to renew ties with their teachers and classmates. One university in Hangzhou arranges a different kind of gathering where its alumni would share on a kind of bond that would last--ideally and hopefully--for eternity.
Zhejiang University hosted another mass wedding, and this year, it’s for some 400 couples on its sprawling campus on April 30, according to the university’s website.
Dubbed “Love@ZJU,” the event had thousands witness the union of the couples, including Party Chief Jin Deshui, a Shaoxing native.
Jin said that ZJUers should not only pursue building a career but should also find time for matters of the heart. He added that he was happy these alumni chose to get married in their school campus.
“Marriage marks a new beginning in your life and it is also a journey of your spiritual growth,” said the former vice governor of Zhejiang Province. “I hope that everyone can fulfill the obligation of wives and husbands and live happily afterward.”
Zhejiang University celebrates its 119th anniversary this year, and it has been organizing mass weddings for its alumni since 2012, according to South China Morning Post.
It seems that the school made the mass wedding a part of its anniversary celebration.
Some of the couples who got married came from 10 provinces in the country and others traveled all the way to China from Japan, Singapore and South Korea and as far as America and Germany.
According to the university, many of the newlywed couples graduated from the university some five years ago only, reported Mail Online. Graduates from the Computer Science department invaded the ceremony as they were the majority of those who got married.
There were 128 couples who attended the university’s first group wedding held on May 19, 2012; 116 in 2013; 200 in 2014, and 360 in 2015, according to Xinhua.