The Week April 29, 2011

Weddings with pearls

April is the month for weddings. In the news this week is the Chinese man in South China who made a wedding dress for his bride that was decorated with 99,999 pearls. It helps that the groom, Peng Yu, owns a pearl company.

Weddings in taxis

Then, there have been weddings in taxis in China, which must have been pretty noisy.

Weddings on bicycles

Low-carbon weddings are also becoming more popular. In Xiamen this week, Xu Zhuangjian escorted his bride from her home with more than 40 people. All of them were on bicycles. That’s a great way to save resources to help save the planet. But what if the groom can’t ride a bicycle? The Week looks in on a bicycle wedding in Beijing …

That other wedding

Of course, there was also plenty of news this week about the Royal Wedding today between Prince William and Kate Middleton in England. Thanks to T-Mobile, the Week shares this wedding “rehearsal”.

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About the broadcaster:

Renee Haines is an editor and broadcaster at China Daily. Renee has more than 15 years of experience as a newspaper editor, radio station anchor and news director, news-wire service reporter and bureau chief, magazine writer, book editor and website consultant.