South Korean evangelist Reverend Moon Sun-myung blesses newlyweds at South Korea's Olympic stadium in Seoul, February 16, 2002. About 3,500 couples from 186 countries around the world exchanged wedding vows in what the Unification Church billed as one of its largest weddings ever. The Unification Church, founded by South Korean Moon in Seoul in 1954, perfomed its first mass wedding in 1961 with 33 couples.