A Pakistani relief camp hosted a colorful marriage ceremony for flood victims living at the camp. Camp inmates danced and sang as two young couples, made homeless by Pakistan's worst floods, tied the knot.

Forgetting their woes for a few hours, people living at a flood relief camp in Karachi sang and danced to the beat of drums on Monday... to celebrate the marriage of two couples in the camp.

Everyone joined in the celebration to ensure the newly-weds did not miss out on any of the rituals that are part of a traditional Sindhi wedding ceremony.

The grooms, barely out of their teens, watched as relatives and fellow camp dwellers danced and sang.

[Nadir Ali Khan, Groom]:
"The wedding was arranged because everyone said get married. So I said let's go ahead and get married. Our marriage was arranged some time back, before the floods, but after the floods we had to come here."

The floods are Pakistan's worst-ever natural disaster in terms of damage, with more than six million people forced from their home and 20 million people affected.

The majority of the homeless are living in camps across the country, with scant hopes of returning to their flooded hometowns in the near future.

[Qurban Ali, Groom's Father]:
"My desire was to have a bigger function, to have the wedding in the village. We had bought all the material for the ceremony with great happiness. I wanted to invite my brothers, my friends, all my relatives, but that was not Allah's will. So we are here; but we are happy."

Floods in Pakistan have killed more than 1,700 people, and aid agencies have warned that millions more are still at risk of death if emergency food and shelter are not provided.