Here comes the bride, and the world's longest dress

[snopes]

A Chinese bride made a bid for the record books when she turned up for her wedding wearing a 2,162-metre-long gown.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090806...20090806160604

[Dropbear]

Not so much 'wearing' as 'attached to' and not so much a 'gown' as much as 2.2 kms of material with a silk rose pinned on every 20cm or so.

Dropbear

[Troberg]

9999 silk roses? Why not make it 10 000, maybe she could get a bulk discount?

[Tootsie Plunkette]

I had to find an article with a picture.

[Enchanting_eyes]

Originally Posted by Article

"I do not want a cliche wedding parade or banquet," the groom said, "nor can I afford the extravagance of a hot balloon wedding."

But even so, his family was initially not too impressed at the far from frugal 40,000-yuan (nearly $6,000) price tag.

I am going to go out on a limb and say that it was possible that a hot air balloon wedding would have been cheaper then just the price tag on the train.

Originally Posted by Article

More than 200 guests took over three hours to unroll Lin Rong's wedding train and pin on 9,999 red silk roses for her wedding, Xinhua news agency said.

That just seems rude to me.


E*E

[Canuckistan]

File this one under people with too much time and money on their hands.

[moonfall]

But how many people stepped on it?

Also, is there a trend in China for brides to wear angel wings?

[LizzyBean]

This is one of the dumbest things I have ever seen. That shouldn't even qualify as a wedding gown, IMO. It's a normal wedding dress with a mile of plane tulle attached to it, that's it, not an actual train that's part of the dress.

I love how she says she wanted to beat the record, then said she didn't care.

*shakes head* I agree with Canuckie...too much money and too much time. And quite a bit of selfishness thrown in.

[vanilla]

Originally Posted by LizzyBean

I love how she says she wanted to beat the record, then said she didn't care.

Actually, it was the groom who wanted to do this and made it happen. The bride appears to have just been a willing participant.

[snopes]

Originally Posted by Troberg

9999 silk roses? Why not make it 10 000, maybe she could get a bulk discount?

Probably because in Chinese culture the number 9 is considered auspicious, particularly in association with weddings (the word for "nine" being a homophone of the word for "longlasting").

[LizzyBean]

Originally Posted by vanilla

Actually, it was the groom who wanted to do this and made it happen. The bride appears to have just been a willing participant.

Oops, must have misread it. I thought it was the bride's idea.

I loved this part though...

But even so, his family was initially not too impressed at the far from frugal 40,000-yuan (nearly 6,000-dollar) price tag.

"It is a waste of money in my opinion," his mother said. "Though I understand that he wants to show his love on the big day."

[blinkingblythe]

When I get a wedding dress, I might get one with a high collar and a long cravat that goes down to my knees.

[Singing in the Drizzle]

Originally Posted by snopes

Probably because in Chinese culture the number 9 is considered auspicious, particularly in association with weddings (the word for "nine" being a homophone of the word for "longlasting").

My Thai wife keeps telling me in the Asian countries the number "9" is lucky or similar meaning. It would be close to the number "7" in Western culture. The number "99" is extra or double lucky because it is a pair of lucky "9"s. My wife is not home right now so I can not ask her, but I could be expected that "9999" is double double lucky (quadruple lucky) because there are four of them or two time two lucky.