Bombshells and wedding bells: Ukraine sees wartime marriage rush

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She should have awoken to the sound of popping champagne corks on her wedding day, but Tetyana was instead startled out of bed by Russian rocket fire near her home in central Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine —

“Initially I thought we should cancel the wedding, but my fiance told me we should go ahead…. The war doesn’t have any right to ruin our plans,” said Tetyana, who asked for the couple to be allowed to use assumed names.The couple, who married in June in the industrial hub of Kremenchuk, 250 kilometres southeast of Kyiv, are part of a massive surge in weddings brought on by the war with Russia.

A sunny recent Saturday in Kyiv saw more than 40 newlyweds embark on their lives together in one downtown register office. At the height of World War II in 1942, the United States saw 1.8 million weddings in 12 months — an 83 percent increase from a decade earlier.“In such tough times, people don’t really know what will happen tomorrow, so they are eager to marry as soon as possible,” he said.

 

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