バレンタインに合同結婚式、６６１組が愛誓う　メキシコ

【ネサワルコヨトルＡＦＰ＝時事】メキシコの首都メキシコ市近郊ネサワルコヨトルで１４日、バレンタインデーに合わせて６６１組のカップルが結婚式を挙げた。（写真はメキシコ・ネサワルコヨトルで行われた合同結婚式の様子）
　そのうちの１組、フランシスコ・カルボさん（７４）とロザルバ・シルバさん（６７）は共に配偶者に先立たれ、５年前に出会った。
　新婚の夫の横に立つシルバさんは「またこんなチャンスがあるとは思っていなかった。でも、愛は訪れた」と笑顔で話した。
　ネサワルコヨトル市職員は、合同結婚式は親密さには欠けるが、婚姻証明書を無料で取得できるなどの特典があると話した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/02/16-11:56）

With tears in their eyes and smiles beneath their face masks, more than 660 couples tied the knot Monday at a Valentine's Day mass wedding in Mexico.
The newlyweds included Francisco Calvo, 74, and Rosalba Silva, 67 -- two widowers who met five years ago.
I didn't think I would have another chance, but love arrived because love arrived, Silva said, smiling next to her new husband at the ceremony in a suburb of Mexico City.
For Jonathan Garcia, a mass wedding is almost a family custom.
Two of my sisters in my family have already been married this way and we saw they were happy so we said 'let's continue the tradition,' the 40-year-old said.
What the mass wedding lacks in intimacy it makes up for with perks such as free marriage certificates, said Maria Darinka Rendon, a council official in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl.
Gathering 661 families in one place was quite a challenge, she admitted.
But it is worth it for what is a very emotional event, for the spouses, for the families and for us who are going to witness it, she added.