Photos: Valentines Day around the world
February 14, 2013
Women walk past heart-shaped balloons on Valentine's Day in Lahore, February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza
Paper hearts hang on a window on Valentine's Day on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 in Montpelier, Vt. The annual tradition of plastering Montpelier's downtown with valentine hearts has happened again. A person who is called the "Valentine's Phantom" has been putting up the hearts for over 10 years. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
Male Shetland pony, Silver (L), and female, Zorka, are seen dressed up as a groom and bride at the Royev Ruchey Zoo, on the suburbs of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, February 14, 2013. Employees of the zoo arranged a wedding between the ponies to mark Valentine's day. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
A man sells flowers during Valentine's Day at Raffles Place on 14 February, 2013 in Singapore. Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love, romance and friendship and is celebrated worldwide annually in different ways on February 14. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)
GRETNA, SCOTLAND - FEBRUARY 14: Michael Lewis and Rebecca Anderson pose outside the Gretna Green Famous Blacksmiths Shop on the day of their wedding on Valentine's day on February 14, 2013 in Gretna, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
People shop for Valentine's Day gifts in central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Wanda Smith, left, gives Clarence Coleman a bouquet of red roses he ordered for Valentine's Day at Flowers Texas Style on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Conroe, Texas. Workers at the shop estimate they will have assembled more than 700 arrangements before the end of Valentine's Day. (AP Photo/ The Courier, Jason Fochtman)
A wheelchair bound elderly woman sells flowers during Valentine's Day at Raffles Place on 14 February, 2013 in Singapore. Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love, romance and friendship and is celebrated worldwide annually in different ways on February 14. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)
A man checks out the roses at Raffles Place during Valentine's Day on 14 February, 2013 in Singapore. Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love, romance and friendship and is celebrated worldwide annually in different ways on February 14. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)
Michael Lewis and Rebecca Anderson kiss outside the Gretna Green Famous Blacksmiths Shop on the day of their wedding on Valentine's day on February 14, 2013 in Gretna,Scotland. Gretna Green is one of the most popular wedding destinations in Scotland hosting thousands of weddings each year with a particular rise on St Valentine's Day. Gretna Green has been hosting marriages in the blacksmiths shop since 1754. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
A bride pose for a photo at the Registry of Marriages at Fort Canning on 14 February, 2013 in Singapore. Couples take advantage of Valentine's Day to tie the knot on the day of love, to make it more memorable. Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love, romance and friendship and is celebrated worldwide annually in different ways on February 14. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)
A couple jokes around in a mall selling Valentine's day gift items at Orchard Road on February 14, 2013 in Singapore. Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love, romance and friendship and is celebrated worldwide annually in different ways on February 14. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)
A heart shaped ornament is seen as part of a decoration on Valentine's Day at the Registry of Marriages at Fort Canning on 14 February, 2013 in Singapore. Couples take advantage of Valentine's Day to tie the knot on the day of love, to make it more memorable. Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love, romance and friendship and is celebrated worldwide annually in different ways on February 14. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)
A couple dressed in traditional Chinese costumes have wedding portraits made on Valentine's Day February 14, 2013 in Beijing, China. Young Chinese couples have embraced the Western concept of Valentine's Day with hawkers selling roses and chocolates. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
A couple takes a picture of themselves on Valentine's Day February 14, 2013 in Beijing, China. Young Chinese couples have embraced the Western concept of Valentine's Day with hawkers selling roses and chocolates.(Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
A woman holding a heart balloon poses for a photo during on Valentine's Day February 14, 2013 in Beijing, China. Young Chinese couples have embraced the Western concept of Valentine's Day with hawkers selling roses and chocolates. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
A street seller ties up heart-shaped balloons on Valentine's Day in Islamabad February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
Peter Watkins kisses Nicola McCartney on their wedding day at the Gretna Green Famous Blacksmiths Shop on Valentine's day on February 14, 2013 in Gretna, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Paper hearts hang on a window on Valentine's Day on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 in Montpelier, Vt. The annual tradition of plastering Montpelier's downtown with valentine hearts has happened again.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
Iraqis shop for gifts for Valentine's Day in Baghdad February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen
A man tries to fit heart-shaped balloons in the trunk of his car on Valentine's Day in Islamabad February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
Zahra, 8, carries her niece while her sister prepares flowers to sell on Valentine's Day in Islamabad February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
Men try to fit heart-shaped balloons in the trunk of a car on Valentine's Day in Islamabad February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
A street seller inflates a heart-shaped balloon while a street cleaner sweeps on Valentine's Day in Islamabad February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra
A woman holding a heart-shaped balloon walks with her partner at a residential area for migrant workers on Valentine's Day in Beijing February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Lee
A man holds heart-shaped balloons while riding on a motorcycle along a road on Valentine's Day in Lahore February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza
A youth selling balloons counts money on Valentine's Day at a shopping district in Beijing February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
A vendor helps a woman to select her gift on Valentine's Day in Amman February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Majed Jaber
Men choose gifts on Valentine's Day in Amman February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Majed Jaber
A man waits for customers to buy his flower arrangements as Valentine's Day gifts at his stall in Havana, February 13, 2013. Picture taken February 13, 2013. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
A huge banner is seen on a construction building in celebration of Valentine's Day in downtown Beirut, February 14, 2013 . REUTERS/Jamal Saidi
A couple stand in front the 'I love You : The Wall' art work by Frederic Baron and Claire Kito on Saint Valentine's Day in Paris February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
A Pakistani man stands on a roadside waiting for customers to sell heart-shaped balloons on Valentine's Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Romance may not be dead in Pakistan but it is under attack. Conservatives in Pakistan are attacking the romantic holiday as a western-inspired event helping to spread vulgarity in their country and putting up posters calling on people to boycott the holiday. But romantics are fighting back with an arsenal of flowers, pink teddy bears and heart-shaped balloons. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
A student sign on a giant valentine card with inscriptions '' stop violence against women'' to support the "One Billion Rising" global campaign in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Thousands of women and children in various cities in the country danced in the streets, in malls and other places to express support for the One Billion Rising movement, a worldwide call to end violence against women and girls. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Camels watch as an employee of Royev Ruchey Zoo feeds treats to male Shetland pony, Silver (L), and female, Zorka, dressed up as a groom and bride at the suburbs of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
A Pakistani youth pushes his motorcycle, with balloons that he hopes to sell on Valentine's Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
A Palestinian woman adjusts a feathered scarf on a mannequin at a lingerie shop, decorated for Valentine's Day, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2012. Valentine's Day is a festival of romantic love and is celebrated in many countries over the world by giving cards, flowers or gifts to spouses or partners. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
Edwin Camarillo walks to his car after picking up flowers for Valentine's Day at Flowers Texas Style on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Conroe, Texas. Workers at the shop estimate they will have assembled more than 700 arrangements before the end of Valentine's Day. (AP Photo/ The Courier, Jason Fochtman)
A Pakistani woman uses her mobile phone to take a picture of flowers displayed for sale outside a shop on Valentine's Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
Palestinian women walk behind mannequins decorated for Valentine's Day, outside a shop in the West Bank city of Nablus, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2012. Valentine's Day is a festival of romantic love and is celebrated in many countries over the world by giving cards, flowers or gifts to spouses or partners. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
Indian farmers wait for customers at a wholesale flower market in Kolkata, on February 14, 2013. On Valentine’s day the floriculture business in the city is booming because of the increased demand nationally. AFP PHOTO/ Dibyangshu SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images
An Indian farmer arranges flowers at a wholesale flower market in Kolkata, on February 14, 2013. On Valentine’s day the floriculture business in the city is booming because of the increased demand nationally. AFP PHOTO/ Dibyangshu SARKAR/AFP/Getty Images
Couples stand in a queue at a gymnasium for a mass wedding in Manila on February 14, 2013. Some 400 couples exchanged vows inside a packed gymnasium on the outskirts of Manila's Makati financial district, as a school band played love songs that drowned out the heavy traffic outside. AFP PHOTO / Jay DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images
Local residents release a heart-shaped sky lantern in Pingshi, the New Taipei City, on the fifth day of the lunar new year on February 14, 2013. At least 600 couples celebrated their Valentine's day via releasing sky lenterns on the lunar new year of snake. AFP PHOTO / Sam YEH/AFP/Getty Images
Filipinos flock to the flower street called Dangwa to buy flowers for their loved ones in celebration of Valentine's Day Thursday Feb. 14, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. Business is brisk at this flower street and flower shops around Manila with red roses being the most popular among the buyers. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
A Pakistani youth poses for a picture taken by his friend in front of a big red heart made of flowers displayed outside flowers shop on Valentine's Day, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
A woman sells Valentine's Day roses near a pair of statue at a shopping district in Beijing, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Regina Millado holds an Ecuadorian rose she just bought that would be the centerpiece for a flower arrangement at the flower street called Dangwa on Valentine's Day Thursday Feb. 14, 2013 in Manila, Philippines. Business is brisk at this flower street and most of the flower shops in Manila, with red roses being the most popular among the buyers. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Activists release balloons during an event to support "One Billion Rising" global campaign in Kolkata, India, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Flashmobs, rallies with singing and dancing were organized across the country as part of the campaign, timed to coincide with Valentine's Day, to bring an end to violence against women. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Palestinian girls walk in front of a shop decorated for Valentine's Day, in Gaza City, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. Valentine's Day is a festival of romantic love and is celebrated in many countries over the world by giving cards, flowers or gifts to spouses or partners. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
A woman shops for a Valentine's Day present in central Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)
Heather Ford, 39, removes her blindfold during a game of "pin-the-heart-on-cupid" at the Meadow Lands Elementary School gym, to find her boyfriend, Todd Bevil, 34, down on bended knee with a marriage proposal, Thursday morning, Feb. 14, 2013 in the middle of a school-wide Valentines Day assembly in Owensboro, Ky. They met at a school PTO meeting where she teaches and has children and he has a son more than a year ago. (AP Photo/The Messenger-Inquirer, Gary Emord-Netzley)
Karen Brown (L) and Douglas Brown hold hands as they are wed during a group Valentine's day wedding at the National Croquet Center on February 14, 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The group wedding ceremony is put on by the Palm Beach Country Clerk & Comptroller's office and approximately 40 couples tied the knot. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Newlyweds Rem David (L) and Jenny Briceno (2nd L) and Karean Butler (2nd R) and Karlo Butler walk near a Rolls-Royce after taking part in a group Valentine's day wedding at the National Croquet Center on February 14, 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The group wedding ceremony is put on by the Palm Beach Country Clerk & Comptroller's office and approximately 40 couples to tied the knot. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Portraits of U.S. President Barack Obama, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Alejandro Mayorkas, Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, (USCIS), are adorned with hearts at a special Valentine's Day naturalization ceremony for married couples on February 14, 2013 in Tampa, Florida. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) held the Valentine's Day ceremony in Tampa for 28 married couples from 15 different countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Fabricia and Wagner Darosa kiss after becoming American citizens at a special Valentine's Day naturalization ceremony for married couples on February 14, 2013 in Tampa, Florida. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) held the Valentine's Day ceremony in their Tampa office for 28 married couples from 15 different countries. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Mora Giwa (L) stands next to performer Titus Gandy (2nd L) in Times Square during Valentine's Day celebrations on February 14, 2013 in New York City. People around the world are celebrating the lovers holiday. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Newlywed couples make a heart's shape in a public swimming pool during a mass wedding on Valentine's Day in Lima February 14, 2013. About 200 couples married in the ceremony organized by a local municipality to commemorate Saint Valentine's Day. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil
A woman sells balloons to celebrate on Valentine's Day in Caracas February 14, 2013. REUTERS/Jorge Silva
A couple walk off together after joining eighty-seven other couples who gathered in a snow storm atop a mountain to get married or renew their vows, at the 22nd Annual Marry Me & Ski Free Mountaintop Matrimony, at Loveland Ski Area, in Colorado, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Thode's Floral and Gift Shop floral designer Jessica Granger works on a Valentine's Day arrangement Thursday Feb. 14, 2013 in LaPorte, Ind. (AP Photo/The LaPorte Herald-Argus,Bob Wellinski )
Paul Berg, visiting from Madison, Wisc., carefully picks out tulips for his sweetheart on the busiest flower sales day of the year at the Pike Place Market, Valentine's Day, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in Seattle. At the peak of sales during the day, customers, nearly all men, lined-up as much as four deep along the 50-foot long table and at other vendor's inside the market as well. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Street vendors sell Valentine's Day gifts during Mexico's "One Billion Rising" flashmob against violence against women, at the Republic Square in front of the Monument to the Mexican Revolution, in Mexico City on February 14, 2013. The "One Billion Rising" is a protest held in about two hundred countries around the world on St Valentine's day. AFP PHOTO/Yuri CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images
A couple kisses on St Valentine's Day at the Republic Square in Mexico City on February 14, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Yuri CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images
A couple kisses on St Valentine's Day at the Republic Square in Mexico City on February 14, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Yuri CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images
A couple looks each other in the eye on St Valentine's Day at the Republic Square in Mexico City on February 14, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Yuri CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images
A man checks his mobile phone as he holds a bunch of flowers at the Republic Square in Mexico City on St Valentine's Day, on February 14, 2013. AFP PHOTO/Yuri CORTEZ/AFP/Getty Images
Couples get married inside a public pool during a mass wedding on Valentine's Day in Lima on February 14, 2013. Over 200 couples participated in a community civil marriage organized by the municipality of Comas, northeast of Lima. AFP PHOTO/ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP/Getty Images
Eighty-eight couples gather in a blizzard atop a mountain to get married or renew their vows, at the 22nd Annual Marry Me & Ski Free Mountaintop Matrimony, at Loveland Ski Area, in Colorado, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. At left are couple Joseph and Elizabeth Antonio, who renewed their vows after six years of marriage, and at right are newlyweds Mary Stipe and Ryan Kargol. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Newlyweds Mary Stipe and Ryan Kargol kiss, among eighty-eight couples gathered in a snow storm atop a mountain to get married or renew their vows, at the 22nd Annual Marry Me & Ski Free Mountaintop Matrimony, at Loveland Ski Area, in Colorado, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Portuguese performer Pauliana Almeida, 34, kisses her fiancee Japan's Yuga Hatta, 26, after rappelling down the Clerigos' Tower during a performance to mark St. Valentine's Day, Porto, Portugal, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Paulo Duarte)
Oakwood Florist designer, Sheila Fuller puts the finishing touches on Telefloraís Heartstrings Bouquet for Amber Cardarella whose husband, Matt ordered her the bouquet for Valentineís Day thus winning the $15,000 diamond necklace in conjunction with Teleflora "Love Rocks" sweepstakes, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013 in Dayton, Ohio. (Jay LaPrete/AP Images for Teleflora)
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