(21 Jun 2025)
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Amsterdam - 21 June 2025
1. Wide of people walking under a highway sign in Amsterdam's ring road A10
2. Wide of people walking in the Amsterdam ring road A10
3. Wide of crowd
4. Bride holding a bouquet walking with a man in a suit
5. Wide of the wedding ceremony
6. Couple kissing as pronounced married
7. Wide of wedding guests applauding
8. Bride holding a bouquet walking through a crowd in Amsterdam during a wedding celebration
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Zuzanna Lisowska, bride:
"It just seemed like a super fun idea. I don't know, statistics weren't on our side. There were 400 couples who wanted to do it, so we feel really lucky to have been chosen. So, but I think it's descriptive of all the wildness and fun we like to have."
10. Various of married couple during photo shoot
11. Mid of photographers capturing moments at a wedding event in Amsterdam.
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Yuri Iozzelli, groom:
"It's nice. It's a nice party. We didn't have to organise."
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Zuzanna Lisowska, bride:
"Yeah, all these people came to party with us just by themselves. Thank you to these people."
14. Groom placing a ring on the bride's finger during a wedding ceremony
15. Couple celebrating their wedding on a sunny day in Amsterdam, surrounded by a festive crowd on the ring A10
16. People walking on a sunny day on A10
17. Crowd
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyra Smit, student:
"Well, it's really fun because it's a once in a lifetime thing, so wedding on the ring is like, it's so fun that you can say to people, well, I married on the ring, so I really like it."
19. Various of people walking on closed highway
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Marjolein de Bruijne, Amsterdam resident:
"That's quite strange because you normally you drive here and now you're walking, so yeah, that's a totally different situation."
21. Various of people walking
STORYLINE:
Securing a coveted slot to exchange wedding rings on Amsterdam's usually traffic-choked ring road seemed like a good omen for Zuzanna Lisowska and Yuri Iozzelli's future life together.
“It just seemed like super fun idea," Lisowska said "And, you know, statistics weren't on our side, there were 400 couples who wanted to do it so we feel really lucky to have been chosen.”
Their only regret was not being able to bring their pet rabbit.
Friends and total strangers cheered and clapped as they said their 'I dos' on the part of the A10 highway, which surrounds Amsterdam, that was closed for a day-long festival.
As part of a day of festivities marking Amsterdam's 750th birthday, some parts of the highway became pedestrian only.
Lisowska, originally from Poland, and Italian-born Iozzelli were among 20 couples who were tying the knot on the closed ring road.
“It’s a nice party we didn’t have to organize,” said Iozzelli.
The city said that some 600,000 people tried to get access to the ring road last month when more than 200,000 free ticket... [truncated]
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