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Lincoln: With blossom season now in full bloom in China, many couples are now taking the opportunity to get married, with some doing so in more ostentatious ways than you might imagine. Michael, maybe you can fill us in a little bit here.
Michael: All the trees, all the blossoms are coming into bloom now and it's very pretty, so a lot of people – because you have this very pleasant climate – a lot of people are taking the opportunity to get married. So, to exploit this wave of weddings, with wedding season opening now, [there was] a rather eye-catching wedding gown, with a 101-metre-long train. [Lincoln: That's crazy!] So, to put that into context, that's the length of a football pitch, just the train of her dress.
Lincoln: That's the length…? I can't even believe that.
Michael: Yeah. So this gown, made of white lace and adorned with lots of jewels and other things of that nature cost 300,000 RMB to make, which is $46,000. They had to hire a troupe of small children to carry it at various intervals.
WY: How many children did they hire?
Michael: I wasn't sure exactly. I saw a picture, and I counted at least 20 or 30 children just holding it up and stopping it from dragging on the ground. In case you missed it, Lincoln, the actors Nicky Wu and Cecilia Liu had their traditional wedding tea ceremony at the weekend. Their wedding cost a reported $3.2 million, and the couple are due to hold a feast for 350 guests at a resort in Bali. It's not just the weddings themselves when people spend a lot of money and put a lot of effort in. It's actually…in recent months, in China, we've actually seen quite a lot of very extravagant proposals, not even the weddings, so a few months ago there was one proposal from a man in Sichuan Province, and he arranged a big proposal "flash mob" on the street, so all his friends got together and they did this sort of dance, and by the end he knelt down on one knee to pop the question, but much to his girlfriend's disappointment, the ring was less than one carat in size, and when she saw this, she was so disappointed that it was so small, she just turned around and left without saying a word, and that was the end of that, and I think that, really, to me, that's quite indicative of the high expectations that some young people have. Looking at a few more, which went a bit more successfully, so there was a fine arts student from Wuhan who created a one-and-a-half metre-tall sand sculpture of his girlfriend before he popped the question.
Lincoln: Now, that's impressive.
Michael: Yeah, and she said yes. Poor chap – a guy from Xi'an proposed to his girlfriend by painstakingly arranging lychees on the road to form the shape of two hearts pierced by Cupid's arrow, and then the word "love" written underneath, and it's worth noting that in August, in Xi'an, lychees are actually quite out of season, so it cost him 2,000 kuai to get all these lychee together. And then – I'm going to read this verbatim from the article I took this from, just because I think this is brilliant: "The woman was stunned, and without knowing what to say, she ate one of the lychees and then abruptly fled the scene".
Lincoln: Wow. Stunned silence! She just ate one, and then left? [Michael: Yeah]
WY: Maybe she's so touched.
Lincoln: No, maybe the lychees weren't good! Maybe it was out of season.
Michael: Well, apparently he proposed by saying something along the lines of, you know, "I have no money, I have no house, I have no car, but I have love for you. Will you marry me?”
Lincoln: He spend 2,000 kuai on lychees, which makes it even worse! If you're saying that, you should have been saving up! Wu You, what do you think?
WY: And also, I saw one live NBA match, and on the field someone proposed, and suddenly the girl is so stunned, and she's so surprised, but she would like to say no, but because of being in front of thousands of audience members, she just got mad and walked away.
Lincoln: I've seen that clip, actually, as well, and it's very awkward. [WY: Yeah, very awkward] And also, it seems like maybe the fact that he thought she would like that and the fact that she clearly doesn't, maybe suggests that he maybe doesn't know her as well as he thinks he does.
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