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A young couple prepares for their wedding parade with cyclist friends in Quanzhou, southern China, on January 15, 2009. [qzwb.com]
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Following a first ever unique wedding procession earlier this week in city Chongqing during which a happy bridegroom picked up his loved bride by his two-wheel cart-cade, Thursday, Jan. 15 witnessed another happy couple in city Quanzhou of southern Fujian province who chose to do their once-in-a-lifetime wedding parade by riding a bicycle-cade.
This news has again prompted heated hits online across China as many netizens hailed that a frugally wedding like that is not at all humble at a time of global financial recession. Others also think that a simple wedding like that is neither less meaningful than any luxury but wasteful wedding sedancades that stung people eyes when rolling over through big city streets.
According to a Quanzhou Evening News report, the lucky birdegroom, Cai Xinheng, who is a local architecture designer, also an amateur cyclist, first came up with the idea of a cycle-cade wedding when he exchanged ideas with his fellow friends at a local cycling club. Encouraged by his friends' positive responses, Cai proposed the unusual arrangement to his fiancee, Du Yichao, who, however, quickly approved her fiance's idea.
On Thursday, Cai arranged 30 mountain bikes ridden by him and his friends in receiving his bride in the parade, which took them some thirty minutes before rolling over the major streets of Quanzhou.
Their happy parade also invited over strong attentions from many admiring local people on their way to their wedding ceremony.
"It's green and it's fashionable," said one of Cai's cyclist friends in the parade. Others also think such an environmentally friendly way of running a wedding parade should be promoted among the general public.
