Photo of the Day

After their wedding at a monastery in northeastern Romania, a couple waits for their reception to begin. This portrait from the December 1983 issue shows a room full of appetisers—which the whole village will soon gather to eat.

Women of the Candomblé faith give thanks to the sea goddess for the first catch of the day. Founded in Salvador, Brazil, the faith is a mixture of African beliefs that resulted from enslaved people's export to the country.

A playground entertains families visiting Iraq's Great Mosque of Samarra, seen in the background. The spiral minaret, shown here in the late 1990s, dates all the way back to 851. It sustained damage from bombing in 2005.

A young boy enjoys a slice of watermelon at a festival in Chiefland, Florida. Almost 40 years after this picture was published, Florida still leads the states in watermelon production.