Wherever I’ve been during this October holiday there have been masses of wedding photo parties blocking our way or asking us to move, presumably about 10% of the entire population are getting married at this time.
I first bumped into a wedding outside the Orden Billiards Centre I blogged about previously, as we came outside a couple were posing in front of an enormous dart board (that’ll look nice in the album), I didn’t get any pics though. Next was Taikang Lu, an almost continuous procession of brides sporting tacky dresses with fleeting glimpses of fake adidas trainers as they lift their dresses enroute to the next location.
Lemon Meringue at Taikang Lu
Next was Century Park, awash with them and their nervous grooms in ill-fitting white suits, fopping around and crouching in fields of tall grass while being tailed by a fleet of photographers and video cameras.
Enjoying a romantic moment next to a broken umbrella, the only people daring to get so close to the stinking, stagnant pond.
DINGLE EXCLUSIVE – closeup picture of the broken umbrella!!
Then it was off to Nanjing where we saw massive numbers of lucky couples about to commit social suicide.
There are four brides in this picture, can you find them all in less than one minute?
My heart goes out to this guy though, what kind of future does their marriage hold when the poor guy has to stand on a box to be the same height as his wife in the wedding photos. If I ever found myself in this situation the bride would be going barefoot, if she was still taller she’d be crouching!
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Dingle do you remember that massive group wedding some time ago where something like 100 couples all got married together? It’s production line business here in the middle kingdom.
yeah, i think it was more than that wasn’t it? anyway, it’s definitely huge business over here
Yes, I think it was a billion couples in one day.
weddings are big business no matter WHERE you go . . . the combination of customs, ritual, ceremony and tradition often get cluster fu*ked into a pomp and circumstance circus of over-doing it, doing it bigger and better and sadly with very little meaning into the original meaning behind the wedding itself: celebration of a couple’s happiness and commitment.
but i DO love them! . . .
Personally I hate them, all this fuss and nonsense when you know perfectly well the couple will likely divorce in the next couple of years.
Angie, do you mean you love attending or being the bride?
i love the ATTENDING part. (interesting little tid bit about me: i’ve stood in almost a dozen weddings, but not my own. i was married at the courthouse by a judge friend.)
=)
besides, i’ve only been a “bride” once.
I don’t understand how a chap can be shorter than a lady- it goes against every law of nature.
I like people getting married, I like ritual drinking, and yet I STILL hate weddings in China. They’re daft, and pointless.
Can we talk for a second about the crazy ass wedding dress fashions you guys got going on there. Every single one of those is hideous.
I love going to weddings, but I find them (at least in the US) to be the biggest waste of money known to man. Vegas for me.
they’re rather special aren’t they Kristi. Actually at weddings here in China the focus seems to be more on the quantity rather than quality, the bride changes her outfit a number of times during the dinner ceremony. I went to a wedding once where the bride had 3 separate outfits and paid a grand total of 500RMB for all three (about 70USD).
Yeah, I once went to a Cambodian wedding where homegirl changed like 5 times.
That’s nothing, I went to a Mormon wedding where they changed the bride 5 times.
HIGH FIVE!!!!!
You can’t go to a mormon wedding unless you are mormon. They won’t even let you in the temple.
How do they check if you’re a mormon, is there a secret handshake? Maybe you canjust carry a box of Kellog’s cornflakes and they’ll buy it?
Actually, there’s this mormon temple in Preston, a huge marble thing, we went for a drive around the grounds once, there were people in suits, perfect hair and big grins everywhere, I think they knew we weren’t mormons
Actually, at Mormon weddings do they throw cornflakes on the bride instead of confetti?
Hmmmm good question. I’ll ask my step sister.
Does she always wear a suit and have a fixed grin?
The guy standing on a box is hilarious.
It does suck when you marry a woman taller than you.
They are a very cute couple.