Auspicious signs driving rush to marry


Big day ahead: A manager of a restaurant in Cheras showing its wedding dinner package to a couple. — AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

PETALING JAYA: The desire to have an auspicious “Dragon baby” next year is driving up wedding hall bookings in the Chinese community, according to wedding planners.

Loon Sing Group managing director Sia Boon Kong says it is customary for many Chinese couples to marry before the Year of the Dragon to have a Dragon child the following year.

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