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Old Aug 8th, 2009, 01:37 AM   #1
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Default Chinese bride trains eye on wedding dress record

An aerial view shows the length of the train of a wedding dress during a wedding ceremony in Jilin city, Jilin province August 6, 2009.

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BEIJING (Reuters Life!) – A Chinese bride is hoping to enter the record books after getting married in a wedding dress with a train more than 2 km (1.2 miles) long trailing behind her.

It took guests more than three hours to roll out the gown, complete with 9,999 silk red roses attached to it, in the northeastern province of Jilin, state news agency Xinhua said.

"Both the length of the dress and the number silk roses pinned on the wedding dress can make history," the report quoted groom Zhao Peng as saying.

Zhao, who has applied to Guinness World Records, said he was inspired after seeing a story on the previous record holder in Romania, where the dress measured just over 1.5 km.

"I do not want a cliche wedding parade or banquet," he said.

Bride Lin Rong "laughed and cried at the romantic gesture," Xinhua said.

The dress cost around 40,000 yuan ($5,856), which prompted initial opposition to the plan from his family.

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

($1 = 6.830 Yuan)
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Old Aug 8th, 2009, 05:59 PM   #2
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Old Aug 8th, 2009, 06:52 PM   #3
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Wow. I wonder how is the bride going to walk all day in that gown?!
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Old Aug 8th, 2009, 07:11 PM   #4
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She may also set the world record for biggest bustle ever.
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Old Aug 8th, 2009, 07:20 PM   #5
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hm.. bridezilla...
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Old Aug 8th, 2009, 07:21 PM   #6
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Has anybody ever asked her to get a life? Other than doing world records? I mean why??!
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Old Aug 8th, 2009, 10:37 PM   #7
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^^ If you read the article, it wasn't her idea ... it was the groom's.
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Old Aug 8th, 2009, 10:41 PM   #8
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Wowza.. the dress was only 5.8k ? I'd say that's a deal on fabric alone !
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Old Aug 9th, 2009, 01:33 PM   #9
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Oh well... have fun.
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Old Aug 9th, 2009, 01:37 PM   #10
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Who would even care about a World Record like this!?!
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Old Aug 9th, 2009, 03:19 PM   #11
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So, the bride had to walk 1.5 miles in order to unfurl her wedding train? I would think she'd be so tired by the time she got to the altar... men and their crazy egos!
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Old Aug 9th, 2009, 04:25 PM   #12
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i guess they really wanted a spot in the guinness world records haha
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Old Aug 9th, 2009, 06:27 PM   #13
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So, the bride had to walk 1.5 miles in order to unfurl her wedding train? I would think she'd be so tired by the time she got to the altar... men and their crazy egos!
Or she could of stood still, and her bridemaides could of walked with the buched up train, for 1.5 miles!
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Old Aug 10th, 2009, 08:09 AM   #15
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who thinks of stuff like that?
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