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A Saudi family has dismissed claims that a groom gave away new iPhone 8s to all the guests at the wedding ceremony.
     A video clip showing a troupe playing traditional wedding music while waiters carried trays with pyramids of boxes went viral on social media under the claim that they were packs of the latest smartphones from Apple offered as gifts to the guests in a hall in Jeddah, in western Saudi Arabia.
     "These were malicious rumours that had nothing to do with the reality on the ground," Mohammad Al Haqqan, a relative, said. "First of all, it was not a wedding ceremony, but an engagement party."