There are wedding shows and there are Chinese wedding shows. Yesterday, as I was walking through my local shopping mall, I stumbled upon what was obviously the Chinese variety and let me just tell you ladies, Chinese girls (and some boys I think) apparently take their weddings SERIOUSLY. I mean, I am starting to become a little obsessed with dresses and flowers but I have nothing on my Chinese counterparts.

The exhibitors were mostly photographers, because as everyone knows, you must have a life size wedding picture taken (framed, of course, in rococo style) as well as an enormous, glossy picture book of you and your beloved. The photographers all had clothes you could rent and they were also happy to photoshop you into a gorgeous landscape, with ummm…. wind farms in the background? Believe me, I tried my best to convince Jonas that we should have some photos taken of us and the wind farms in our gala best but he, alas, did not think it was worth 8000 Kuai.

At least now we know, a wedding is not a wedding without lots and lots of tulle, rhinestones, life size cardboard cutouts and a wind farm or two. Good to know.