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Frenetic Hong Kong is about to supersize wedding planning - with fast-food McNuptials.
From January 1 selected McDonald's restaurants are to offer a wedding banquet service - you can even tie the knot with Ronald McDonald in attendance.
Instead of traditional - and pricey - banquet food, such as shark's fin soup or roasted pork skin, McDonald's Hong Kong will offer a fast-food banquet of French fries for starters, sundaes and milkshakes for dessert - and strictly soft drinks only for the wedding toasts - with the restaurant's piped music adding to the McRomance of the occasion.
And how could you want to miss the McDonald's wedding cake - specially made with apple pies, a burger of your choice, or even a Filet-o-Fish?
"Traditional weddings use cherries for the newlyweds to eat together and kiss. We will have French fries for them to kiss," Helen Cheung Yuen-ling, director of corporate communications & relations, at McDonald's Hong Kong, said.
The company estimates a wedding will cost a few thousand Hong Kong dollars, including food, a wedding cake and gifts - compared with the HK$200,000 to HK$400,000 for some hotel wedding banquets.
Cheung said Hong Kong was the first place in the world to launch a McDonald's wedding programme; McDonald's weddings elsewhere are carried out strictly on a one-off basis.
However, couples that wanted their wedding service in the restaurant would need to find the civil celebrant themselves, she said.
Couples can pre-select the menu, but Cheung said it was "better to order on the spot, like a kid's birthday party".
McDonald's also wants to stage couples' wedding anniversary parties.
The wedding parties will begin in three restaurants only - in Admiralty, Mei Foo and Smithfield in Kennedy Town - with more added if the response proves successful. But couples will not normally be able to book the whole restaurant for the exclusive use of their wedding, as the venues will still have to cater to regular customers.
McDonald's wedding plans were inspired after one couple successfully persuaded the fast-food chain to let them stage their wedding party in the Admiralty Centre's restaurant in March.
"Over the past two years, we've started receiving calls from people who want to have a wedding party in our restaurants. There are about 10 calls a month," Cheung said. "People said they'd dated here, or met here, and wanted to get married here ... We see this as a business chance."
Poverty researcher Chua Hoi-wai, of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, said McDonald's wedding plans reflected a social phenomenon. "The social mobility and incomes of young Hongkongers have fallen," Chua said. "University graduates work for many years and still earn only HK$10,000 to HK$20,000. They have saved money for years and can't buy flats when they get married."
Cheung did not want to link McDonald's weddings to poverty. "[But] I can't rule out some come here because they have no money for a banquet".
Social worker Sze Lai-shan, of the Society for Community Organisation, said many people from poorer families she knew of did not have any banquet, and even a McDonald's wedding would be too expensive for them. "Some couples will just invite friends and close family for a meal with only one table in a cheap restaurant."
She added: "Should people give you yan ching [a traditional money gift from guests at wedding banquets]? You invite elderly relatives to a wedding to eat bread? It's best not to invite them."
I went up to a cute chick and asked her if she'd let me take a photo of her for $30 she slapped me, she said to me that "I AIN'T A WHORE!"
But other than that I have seen every car on display in DTP just by cruising about in Richmond, thank you very much for collecting them together and get someone to sing a cover for "fuck you".
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wtf man? what the hell kind of women do you go for? spca is for animals not dates...
i was just at my cousin wedding & seriously i have never seen anything like it cuz my cousin wife is caucasian & they paid for the wedding while at the same time my cousin is chinese so in chinese tradition male side of the family pays for the everything, thus a 2nd wedding the next day (aka chinese wedding)
& my cousin is from HK & still has relatives living there thus making it a 3rd wedding in HK when they took the family trip recently, so my dad went to a total of 3 weddings for just one couple while i went to 2 (sounds super expensive to me)
I went up to a cute chick and asked her if she'd let me take a photo of her for $30 she slapped me, she said to me that "I AIN'T A WHORE!"
But other than that I have seen every car on display in DTP just by cruising about in Richmond, thank you very much for collecting them together and get someone to sing a cover for "fuck you".
OH FUCK YOU OH OH OOOOH~
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Originally Posted by Neva
wtf man? what the hell kind of women do you go for? spca is for animals not dates...
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Helen Cheung Yuen-ling, director of corporate communications & relations, at McDonald's Hong Kong
Cheung did not want to link McDonald's weddings to poverty. "[But] I can't rule out some come here because they have no money for a banquet".
I'm pretty sure McDonalds would have just fired this dummy people will already feel that its cheap; its her job to paint it as an Alternative venue which is fun and smart for young couples to consider
my buddy works at mc dicks & it's super funny when he hear this news, & was wondering if employees get 50% off with with there discount card if they host an there wedding there
I went up to a cute chick and asked her if she'd let me take a photo of her for $30 she slapped me, she said to me that "I AIN'T A WHORE!"
But other than that I have seen every car on display in DTP just by cruising about in Richmond, thank you very much for collecting them together and get someone to sing a cover for "fuck you".
OH FUCK YOU OH OH OOOOH~
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Originally Posted by Neva
wtf man? what the hell kind of women do you go for? spca is for animals not dates...
After the unorthodox wedding between Paul and Caragh Brooks at an Illinois Taco Bell, they have since spoken on a radio show and also had a brief interview on the CBS Early show. Outside of that, they have been mentioned in many places including The Tonight Show, The Late Show and Chelsea Lately.
After meeting on OKCupid.com, they never originally planned to get married in a Taco Bell. Paul and Caragh both wanted to get married on Caragh’s mother’s wedding anniversary, but when they called the courthouse, there were no openings. Being married that day was important enough for Paul to call his ordained minister friend to marry them. When the minister asked where he wanted it to take place Paul responded “eh…Taco Bell?”
“I didn’t think she would go for it,” Paul said. “At first it was supposed to be just us, the minister, and the two witnesses…but once people found out, I figured I should probably [OK it] with Taco Bell.”
Caragh apparently got a lot of flak for being married at a Taco Bell and paying only $200 for it, but her response was simple:
“It’s funny…the negative reactions you see from people when they say [sarcastically], ‘You must really love her spending $200 on a wedding.’ “Since when does money represent how much you care about someone?”
Both Paul and Caragh say they are “laid back, low-key and we just couldn’t fathom spending that sort of money on a wedding.”
My favorite part of the story comes when we find out that the President of Taco Bell is also from Australia, Caragh’s native country. “He sent us a hand-written letter congratulating us and a check for $200 to cover the cost of the wedding,” Paul said.
Although Caragh’s visa status has not yet allowed her to work within the U.S., Paul runs a video production company he started a little over a year ago.
I went up to a cute chick and asked her if she'd let me take a photo of her for $30 she slapped me, she said to me that "I AIN'T A WHORE!"
But other than that I have seen every car on display in DTP just by cruising about in Richmond, thank you very much for collecting them together and get someone to sing a cover for "fuck you".
OH FUCK YOU OH OH OOOOH~
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Originally Posted by Neva
wtf man? what the hell kind of women do you go for? spca is for animals not dates...
I went up to a cute chick and asked her if she'd let me take a photo of her for $30 she slapped me, she said to me that "I AIN'T A WHORE!"
But other than that I have seen every car on display in DTP just by cruising about in Richmond, thank you very much for collecting them together and get someone to sing a cover for "fuck you".
OH FUCK YOU OH OH OOOOH~
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Originally Posted by Neva
wtf man? what the hell kind of women do you go for? spca is for animals not dates...
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free unlmited fries for you to.......
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what's the average cost of a wedding?
My wedding was a moderate one, as far as Asian weddings go, at 240+ people. Both sets of parents paid for it, so no idea, but it must be in the tens of thousands.
If and when any of my children get married, it's going to be 25 people at the most. Unless the other side of the union is filthy rich, LOL.
Nowadays close to 40% of marriages end up in divorce anyway, so why make it a big deal?
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