Dozens tie the metaphorical knot at Amsterdam’s ‘Married For A Day’ Pride event
Dozens joined the symbolic ceremony, while Dutch marriage rates fell to 44% in 2025, the country’s statistics office said.
- On Thursday, couples gathered in Amsterdam for a mass wedding ceremony inside an inflatable chapel, celebrating 25 years since the Netherlands became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage.
- The 'Married For A Day' event was held near the site where the world's first legalized same-sex unions occurred, marking a milestone where more than 36,000 same-sex couples have married in the Netherlands since 2001.
- Dutch marriage rates have declined from 56% in 1995 to 44% in 2025, yet many couples now sign legally binding cohabitation agreements; 42,500 such contracts were signed in 2025.
- Prime Minister Rob Jetten, the country's first openly gay leader, plans to marry his partner Nicolás Keenan, an Argentine field hockey star, while organizer Julia van den Beek officiated the ceremony.
- Organizers emphasized the event's importance amid global pressures on the LGBTQ community, citing discriminatory legislation and safety concerns following a recent attack in Berlin.
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Dozens tie the metaphorical knot at Amsterdam’s ‘Married For A Day’ Pride event
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Wearing rainbow flags, sequins and sometimes hardly anything at all, dozens of people lined up in a pink church at Amsterdam’s Pride festival on Thursday to get married, or at least married for the day. The Married For A Day event was part of the annual event’s celebration of marriage, held a...
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Dozens tie the metaphorical knot at Amsterdam's 'Married For A Day' Pride event
Wearing rainbow flags, sequins and sometimes hardly anything at all, dozens have lined up in a pink church at Amsterdam’s Pride festival to get married, or at least married for the day.
Dozens of couples took part, this Thursday, in the initiative "Married for a Day", which allows to celebrate symbolic marriages during the Pride of Amesterd o. The event marks the 25th anniversary of legalizing the marriage between people of the same sex in the Netherlands, the first pa s of the world to recognize it.
Dozens of people attended the "Married for a Day" event on Thursday, organized as part of the Amsterdam Pride festival. Participants lined up in a church decorated in shades of pink to symbolically celebrate marriage, even though the union is only valid for the duration of the event. 25 years since the first gay marriages The initiative is part of the annual Amsterdam Pride program and marks 25 years since the first legally recognized same-sex m…
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