West Palm Beach, Fla. — Brides hold their roses during a group wedding at the National Croquet Center. The group wedding ceremony is put on by the Palm Beach County clerk/comptroller's office. Thirty couples tied the knot.

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Los Angeles — Kase Chong, right, picks out balloons held by Peter Lee to go with his flowers as crowds filled the downtown flower district.

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Los Angeles — Jose Bernardo carries a huge bouquet of roses to the car of a customer who bought them for his wife.

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Los Angeles — Jorge Gonzalez, a traffic officer with the L.A. Department of Transportation, gets into the spirit of the day with a rose in his safety vest as he directs morning traffic in the flower district.

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Los Angeles — Veronica Zamora stuffs helium-filled balloons from her daughter into their compact car as they joined the masses looking for flowers and balloons to celebrate the day.

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Los Angeles — Alejandro Flores, from left, Frank Bermudez, Carlos Bermudez and Ruben Duarte carry bouquets for the women in their lives. The four Commerce co-workers decided to hit the flower district in the morning.

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Liverpool, England — England's Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is given a rose as she visits Alder Hey Children's Hospital. She visited charities on her first Valentine's Day as a married woman, more than 7,900 miles away from husband William, who is on a six-week posting in the Falkland Islands as part of his role as an RAF search and rescue pilot.

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Bowling Green, Ohio — Bowling Green State University ROTC Air Force Cadet David Harless holds hands with Hazel Ellis at Heritage Corner Health Care Campus. Harless and other cadets spent their lunch hour passing out roses and cookies to residents.

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Frankfurt, Germany — A red heart-shaped balloon lies in the snow.

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Berlin — Pia Walter and Maxence Lepesant kiss in an inflatable church during their wedding rehearsal. Lovers in the German capital were invited to test their wedding in the "pop-up church" on Valentine's Day.

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Shanghai — A Chinese couple kiss for 60 seconds to receive free food in a kissing competition at a cafe.

PHOTOGRAPH BY: Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press

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Ventanilla, Peru — Couples get married in a pool. It was the second year the city organized such a group wedding.

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