Compiled by BENJAMIN LEE, C.ARUNO and R.ARAVINTAN
TWO high school sweethearts in Butterworth, Penang, tied the knot in a special way with the bride being sent to the groom’s house on a bridal palanquin, Sin Chew Daily reported.
The groom, Fu Yi Zhi, 30, a civil engineer, met his bride Hong Shi Hui, 30, a doctor, when they were classmates in Form Two at Chung Ling Butterworth High School.
They finally got hitched after a 15-year relationship.
As the two families lived less than 100m from each other at Teluk Air Tawar, Fu’s father decided to organise a traditional wedding procession where the bride is physically carried to the groom’s house using a palanquin.
On the day of the wedding, the couple, along with their groomsmen and bridesmaids, were dressed in red in the style of China’s Tang Dynasty.
The procession, which also included a lion dance troupe, was led by the groom who was flanked by standard bearers announcing the wedding.
The palanquin, carrying the bride, was at the rear of the procession and the last to arrive at the groom’s house.
According to the father, it took a long time to find a bridal palanquin, which was rented from a shop in Sungai Petani.
> Netizens in China were in stitches when a comical video surfaced recently showing a woman attempting to help a man whose fingers had become trapped under a car bonnet, China Press reported.
The woman, who was seen rushing to the man’s aid, mistakenly opened the car boot instead, causing the video to go viral.
The incident was said to have taken place on April 21 at a car workshop in Guangdong.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
