The justice ministry says its figures indicate some 1,200 minors were married in France in 2004, but admits that many more are taken abroad each year to wed someone they may never have met.

法国司法部门表示，有数据显示，2004年约有1200名未成年儿童结婚，而每年还有好多人到国外与他们从未谋面的人结婚。

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Hemant (r), 16, sits with his 13-year-old newly wed wife Saraswati in a mass marriage outside his village near Kota in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, May 17, 2010.

赫曼特(右)，16岁，同他13岁的新婚妻子萨拉·斯瓦提坐在一起。这是2010年5月17日的西北部拉贾斯坦邦哥打附近村庄之外的一场集体婚礼。

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Men are April when they woo, December when they wed; maids are May when they are maids, but the sky change when they are wives.

男人们在求婚的时候是四月天，结婚的时候是腊月天；女人们做姑娘的时候是五月天，一做了妻子就阴云密布了。

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But if homosexuals wish, they may freely wed.

FORBES: Marriage Is A Private Matter That's None Of The Federal Government's Business

There's no erasing those tabloid photos, like the ones that chronicled the once-blissful pairing of Oscar-winning actress Renee Zellweger and country crooner Kenny Chesney, who wed in the Virgin Islands in May 2005 after a whirlwind courtship.

FORBES: Celebrity Annulments

Assuming that the two still find a way to wed, the best man's speech may be interesting.

ECONOMIST: Accounting