A Chinese Wedding Over the Chinese New Year festival I was very kindly invited to a colleague’s wedding. The whole day turned out to be completely different either from what I was expecting, or anything you would find at a Western wedding. In order to prepare myself and to avoid potential social faux pas, I’d tried to find out as much as I could about Chinese weddings before the big day, but it proved difficult. My colleagues dismissed my questions telling me (they thought usefully) not to worry. As for groom himself, he seemed positively reluctant to talk about his big day. Pre-match nerves I wondered? I did manage, partly by asking Westerns, to understand some basics. Firstly there would be no need to wear a suit, or in fact dress up in any way.
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