Last Sunday, I was lucky to be invited to a traditional Chinese wedding in Dalian. It's my first experience here and it was quite a day of enjoyment. The groom is a cousin of a colleague. Choosing the date for the wedding appears to be very important and the couple is very picky. The date should be a lucky one and this wedding was on a Sunday, April 26th. I am told that there will be a lot of weddings in May because there are many lucky dates.
The day started out with a convoy of many Mercedes Benz led by the groom family heading to the home of the family of the bride. The whole wedding parties were then traveling to the SwissHotel for the wedding ceremony. In this particular wedding, the convoy was led by a Rolls Royce owned by a family friend. I think the families gave the couple a new bed with complete sets of sheets, pillows with cases and covers. The tradition is to have a young boy (less than 2-3 yrs old) to jump up and down this bed to give luck to the newly wed. I think this is to give hope for the couple to produce an heir soon. Red is the lucky color here. I saw the bride wearing red shoes and red "undergarment" and panty hoses. I would bet my salary that the groom wore a red underwear too!
I was the only foreigner in this wedding and the families were extremely friendly to me. I was able to take several pictures with the bride who is a beauty. She wore a white wedding dress (looked exactly like the American wedding dress); then during the banquet, she changed it into a pretty chinese dress and the couple served the guests with drinks, cigarettes and candy. And finally, she changed into a pretty red dress, the traditional chinese wedding dress before the end of the banquet. I was able to take some pictures with the bride this day. The groom must be the luckiest guy on earth!
It must have been a lucky day for me too!!!
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