Jottings from the Granite Studio

As YJ and I try to plan our own wedding for next year, we of course go through all the usual discussion and debates about what kind of wedding to have. We both want it to be small and tasteful, with close family and friends brought together to celebrate our new life together. Of course since we’re holding the wedding in her hometown there are ‘other considerations.’ (Read: “in-laws”) It’s looking increasingly like a larger, more boisterous affair, still with a few close family and some friends, but with the addition, it would appear, of most of the greater Tianjin metropolitan area.*

Anyway, as I think of weddings, I came across this photo layout over at the invaluable China Digital Times. (”Contrasting Weddings, Same Happiness,” Sophia Cao, 9/21/06.) Weddings have a way of showing the stark contrast between rich and poor, whether in Hangzhou or in The Hamptons, but I don’t think it seems to faze either couple in these pictures. By the by, which wedding would you rather go to? Yeah, me too.

The original article, in Chinese, and more pictures can be found at Mop.com.
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*BTW, I love my in-laws. Everybody knows that whatever the culture, the bride’s mother calls the shots for the wedding. She just does. Grooms, if you ignore this piece of advice, I welcome you to whatever private hell you thus create for yourself.