Photographer Ma Hongjie has spent 11 years documenting families in various parts of China for his upcoming book The Family Belongings of Chinese People. Here: a couple with their belongings and vegetables in Hebei Huailai county. (Photo by Ma Hongjie)

Close up of a couple, with the woman holding the man's knee, underneath a table. (Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

Israeli couples attend a “trash the dress” event at a paint-ball venue in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, December 25, 2015. Twelve Israeli couples wore their wedding outfits once again on Friday as they took part in a video clip where they deliberately ruined their wedding outfits, in keeping with the trendy wedding style photography dubbed “trash the dress”. (Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters)

Couples (L-R) Chaiyut Phuangphoeksuk and Prontathourn Pronnapatthun, and Nichapatr Koomsombut and Pirat Rungthongoran run from sheep during their wedding ceremony at a resort in Ratchaburi province February 13, 2015. Three Thai couples took part in the wedding ceremony arranged by a resort themed around fun activities ahead of Valentine's Day. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

A couple participates in the “Running of the Brides” race in a park in Bangkok, Thailand on March 25, 2017. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

A couple kisses as they dance at a DJ party in Caracas, Venezuela, early Saturday, September 10, 2022. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)

Two couples prepare to pose for their wedding pictures outside the Forbidden City in Beijing on October 31, 2022. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)

A couple embraces at the railway station in Kramatorsk, on May 20, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Sergey Shestak/AFP Photo)