Amid the rubble, Nepal wedding shows life goes on

A French woman and a Nepalese man have married in Kathmandu in a determined effort to show that life goes on even in the midst of great adversity.

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Eugenie Prouvost and Dipesh Munakami were supposed to get married in Nepal's capital last week - but the massive earthquake that struck the country April 25 forced the wedding to be postponed.

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On Friday, six days after the disaster, the couple got married, albeit with fewer guests in attendance than originally planned.

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For Prouvost, who works for a non-governmental organization in London, going ahead with the wedding was a small but important gesture of human resilience.

"I hope we are bringing hope that life is going on and there is a love and a solidarity and sharing and caring from each other, so I think we took the right decision," said Prouvost, who met her husband 11 years ago in London, where he works as a banker.