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Did you guys read this story about a Chinese groom who purchased for his bride a wedding dress adorned with 9999 silk roses and a 1.2 MILE-long train?
Three astounding facts:
1) The train was so long that it took GUESTS more than three hours to lay out the gown. (And to think all we entertained our guests with before the ceremony were our programs.)
2) The bride reportedly “laughed and cried at the romantic gesture.” (Yes, I’m sure she cried. Much like I laughed and cried the day my grandfather gave me a white knee-length puffy coat pimped out with marabou feathers and sequins. This day, by the way, was not back in the day, when I was a tutu-wearing, pink-loving five year old, but actually last Christmas.)
3) The gown cost around $5800. (I think that buys you a veil at Kleinfeld’s.)
Awesome? Or spectacular wedding fail?
Ohmaga. That’s insane. I don’t even WANT to imagine that!
I saw that yesterday and almost posted about it — glad you did! I think that’s a pretty epic fail.
Wow Fail!! Can you imagine not being able to move in your own wedding dress!? Forget about walking any isles. What did she do, show up and get dressed in front of everyone. Please don’t tell me she got dressed and had to have her train ride in a limo behind her when she rode to the ceremony.
That is HILARIOUS. I hope she had someone to cut the train off for the reception. Can you imagine the bustle??? 
LOL @ I think that buy you a veil at Kleinfelds AANNDD you last Christmas present 
I don’t understand the symbolism behind the gesture. “See, bride . . . I can buy you lots of really really long stuff after we get married.”
@Miss Mouse: well, since their love is obviously unique in the history of the world, so must her dress be! Right? Perfect logic!!!
that would be so awful. this picture is funny to laugh at but I would have a bridal breakdown to end them all.
ahh…just read the story. he did it to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records (and because he loves her, of course!)
“‘Both the length of the dress and the number silk roses pinned on the wedding dress can make history,’ the report quoted groom Zhao Peng as saying.
Zhao, who has applied to Guinness World Records, said he was inspired after seeing a story on the previous record holder in Romania, where the dress measured just over 1.5 km”
I love chapel/cathedral veils but this is too funny. I hope it was detachable! :o)
wait, is that a picture of the veil?! can you imagine, you’ll be walking by your own veil as you walk back down the aisle!
i’m amused that even his mother thought it was a bad idea. lol
i go with fail. also i think the entire wedding party was wearing large feather wings:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5986681/Chinese-bride-gets-married-in-1.4-mile-long-wedding-dress.html
also, reminds of the girl who’s dress was so heavy she could barely walk in it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-392107/The-25-stone-wedding-dress.html
This is just crazy!!! And I just have a lot of why’s floating around in my head! WHY?!!!
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