May and June are definitely the months to visit China if you are interested in crashing weddings. I can not even begin to count the number of times that we saw men and women dressed in suits and white gowns to take their wedding photos at West Lake and the numerous gardens...If there is one season in China there is definitely a wedding season. It seemed that no matter what day of the week it was we always ran into people taking pictures. This was on our boat ride out at West Lake...keep in mind it was like 85 and humid on this day. The best part was we even spotted some of the brides wearing jeans or other pants underneath their dresses. When we asked Chengyan about this we were actually surprised to find out that most often the couples do not take the pictures on their actual wedding day, but sometimes even a month afterward which is totally different from here when we take them most often the same day. Also usually the bride wears a different colored dress for the ceremony, the favorite being red if they are into custom, but more and more brides are turning to the western style with a white gown. We were even lucky enough to crash a wedding reception one night for dinner...we were the only ones in the restaurant who were not there for the reception, but we got to see the whole show. They had flares shooting from the floor and stage, they had a hired announcer to run the program, and of course a hired performer who sang just a little bit too loud.
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