PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 It started out as a novelty but it\u2019s become a beloved tradition and on Wednesday, Philadelphia celebrated a thousand weddings at the LOVE sculpture in JFK Plaza.<\/p>\n
Meng Lin thought she was choosing the simplest of weddings when she signed up for Wednesday morning in LOVE Park, so she wasn\u2019t expecting the media coverage.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was kind of surprised that we have a lot of photographers here but it\u2019s a good thing that they\u2019re celebrating a thousand weddings here so it\u2019s a special day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe experience was fantastic,\u201d said groom Ren Jing.<\/p>\n
Parks Commissioner Susan Slawson agreed it was a milestone worth celebrating.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is super exciting that they\u2019re choosing to come here to say yes, to spend the rest of their lives together,\u201d she said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t get any better than this. This is what we offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city started offering weddings at the Robert Indiana icon in 2018 as part of the grand reopening of the park after a multi-million dollar renovation, and was immediately met with a huge demand.<\/p>\n
For lifelong Philadelphians Robin and Michael, when they were looking around for a wedding venue, the LOVE sculpture seemed perfect.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was cool and something different, and we love our city, so yeah, we thought, why not?\u201d said Robin.<\/p>\n
It turned out just as she’d hoped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are so happy with the gorgeous weather. All of our family and friends are with us, so we feel blessed.\u201d<\/p>\n
LOVE Park manager Andrew Emma believes it’s a unique service for a park system to offer, as unique as the park itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost parks are, you know, it’s nature, it’s other things, it’s activity. There’s food trucks, but just that simple word, \u201clove,\u201d connects people in a different way to this one square block. And so leaning into it, I think, is exactly what we should be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 It started out as a novelty but it\u2019s become a beloved tradition and on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11869,69,71,70,79171,16171],"class_list":["post-321489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-love-park","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-parks-and-recreation","tag-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}