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Bling Dynasty
croatiantimes.com
Bride Liu Cheng wanted to look dazzling for her big day - and so she donned 200,000 GBP of solid gold jewellery to walk down the aisle.
The one-woman Bling Dynasty - from Quanzhou, Fujian province, southern China - staggered to her groom with more than five kilos of necklaces, bracelets, gems, and rings dangling from her body.
Proud mum Lin Hu - who spent more than an hour helping her 26-year-old daughter get into her jewellery - explained: "I wanted to make the day as special as I could for my girl.
She added: "I've been collecting these pieces for years, and I got my relatives to do so as well because its important to show her new relatives that she comes from a good family.
"We would save money and when the gold price was low we would buy - and sometimes when it was high we would sell to have cash to buy more gold later - it worked really well."
One local wedding planner explained: "Gold is seen as a sign of good luck and good fortune at a wedding and a sign that the family of the bride is a good one - but this is right off the scale."
Liu who gets to keep the gold said she might sell some of it - but would in any case in future only wear a few pieces at a time.
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