Autumn is widely recognized as the wedding season in the country due to Mongolian religious beliefs. Mongolians tend to tie the knot on this specific day more than on other days throughout the year. Many couples are married at the Wedding Palace. It isn’t unusual for the Wedding Palace to be the busiest place in the capital on this special day. Since the palace can hardly manage the number of wedding ceremonies in a single day, it opens for 24 hours.
The Wedding Palace in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, hosts between 500 and 1500 weddings each year. During the 50th anniversary celebration of the People's Republic of Mongolia declaration, the Head of State of the Soviet Union, L.I. Brezhnev, and distinguished guests visited Mongolia.
The Wedding palace was opened on June 14, 1976, by the "Department of Registration of Civil and Family Status" of the Ulaanbaatar Municipal Civil Registry Office. It was established under the name "Marriage Ceremony Palace" handing over the keys of the apartment for the newly married couple and it opened the history page of this palace. The young Soviet and Mongolian builders built it quickly, and Mongolian famous artists D. Amgalan and engraver L. Chuvaamid combined their skills to create the interior.
Since this time, the husband and wife have worn a solid gold ring with a queen bracelet and a king bracelet on their ring finger. So far, more than 40,000 couple marriages have been registered. In recent years, more than 30% of all people who get married have performed the ceremony in the palace and vowed to be faithful to each other in front of their relatives, and friends from both sides, making a stronger and more valuable marriage.
After 20 or 30 years, the couples who got married when it was first established come to the wedding palace again to celebrate their silver wedding. The wedding ceremony, which is metaphorically named after nine precious stones is performed in the wedding palace. For 10 years of marriage, a steel gemstone Wedding, 15 years for a Nacre Gemstone, 20 years for an Amethyst Gemstone, 25 years for a Silver Gemstone, 30 years for a Pearl Gemstone, 35 years for a Pearl Gemstone, 40 years for a Turquoise Gemstone, 45 years for a Copper Gemstone treasure, 50 years is a gold treasure, 55 years is a diamond wedding.
Also, by the decision of the Chairman of the City Council, a 12-walled, 108-pole, carved "Great Palace" was built near the Marriage Ceremony Palace. American citizens Curtis Bridges and Patricia Manner, who first met in Mongolia in 1994, and got married at the Wedding Palace are visited again for their 25th wedding anniversary. They are the first foreign couple to get married in Mongolia.
The history of how the Wedding palace was built is A.I. Tsedenbal Filatova, the wife of Yu. Tsedenbal - a Mongolian politician who led the Mongolian People's Republic from 1952 to 1984, made a generous offer to the guests to strengthen the bond of brotherhood and make a precious gift. She mentioned the need for a place for young people to hold a wedding ceremony and gather relatives.
Thus, a decision was made to build the "Wedding Ceremony Palace" with the aid of the Soviet Union, and it became the first palace to open its doors not only in Mongolia but also in Central Asia. Originally, in 1924, the first administration of Ulaanbaatar city was established with six houses in the place where this wedding palace is located, and M. Bayar was appointed as the first chief.
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