Almaty’s Wedding Factory

If you’re in Almaty, Kazakhstan on a Saturday, situated opposite the circus on Abai street (the main East-West street) is Kazakhstan’s wedding factory.

Almaty’s Vegas-style wedding factory.

At both ends of the parking lot stand police officers, ensuring traffic can flow *cough* collect bribes for limousine parking *cough*.

The main parking lot can handle between four and eight limousines. Those that can’t afford a limousine also can’t afford to park their white car in front of the factory and need to walk one block.

As one bride leaves the factory…

… a new one enters …

… another gets the chance to start taking photos …

… cannons are fired …

…while yet another releases some balloons …

… a cute girl releases a couple of doves …

… a guy collects more petals from the rose garden …

… while another bride takes a photo next to her limousine as she waits …

… for traffic to clear.

 

Hope to see you there, can’t wait until they install a conveyor belt to save on walking.

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