Four Weddings and a Traffic Jam

Friday and Saturday must be wedding days in Hong Kong. Looking down from our hotel window yesterday and today, we must have seen a parade of over 20 brides, grooms, and families on the steps and front courtyard of the Hong Kong Cultural Center jockeying for picture position.

(Larger view available here.)
One may think it strange that the preferred position seemed to be on the steps with nothing but steps as a background until one realizes that those in the courtyard had, just out of view at the bottom of the picture, heavily trafficked Salisbury Road with busses, taxis, other vehicles, and pedestrians going by. With all the scenic places in Hong Kong, a very strange choice for so many weddings.

[Later...] We're informed that there is an extension of City Hall in the Culture Center, dispensing marriage licenses and civil ceremonies, hence the gatherings out front on the steps.