Before the wedding, they prepared a book with a lot of couple photos
An other picture from the wedding book.
Saturday Morning, Dolphin with all her closest friends and family to help her to prepare for the first part of the ceremony
Dolphin with the traditional chinese wedding dress and her Mum
Preparation of the hairs before the installation of the traditional cap
The traditional cap that she will wear for all the ceremony
Dolphin with Alex's Mum
The installation requires a lot of hands, need to fix additional hair before the cap
During Dolphin cap installation, the girls hide her shoes in the bedroom. When Alex will arrive to pick her, he will have to find it by himself. This is the chinese way to make him understand that a weeding is not as easy as picking the girl in the parents home, sometimes there are complications
Dolphin with her bridemaid. She will follow Dolphin to help her for the ceremony
During Dolphin preparation, Alex prepares his cortege for picking Dolphin. Luc and Clement are the flag holders.
Alex arrives on a horse to pick Dolphin in her parents home. They had a lot of music and fireworks.
Luc is one of the flag holder at the beginning of the cortege
Dolphin' parents waiting for Alex to pick their daughter for her new home
As soon as we heard the cortege coming, we had to keep the door closed. If Alex slides enough red pockets (with money inside) under the door, maybe we will let him in to pick Dolphin.
Dolphin mum with Alex' red pockets. Is it enough to open the door????
He finally gave enough to come in!!
Next step is Dolphin's bedroom door, all the girls are protecting it from "Alex's Team"
She seems to be happy to see him to succed to open all the doors!
After finding her shoes in the rrom he prepared her to go in his home.
Luc, the handsome flag holder ;-)
Before Alex can take Dolphin to his home, he has to drink tea with Dolphin's parents.
Dolphin and Alex drinking a sweet soup (with some fruits for having babies quickly) with the bridesmaid and Alex's best man
Alex and Dolphin with their parents
Alan, the best man, he is also the one who takes care of the red pockets to be distributed during the day.
Dolphin and Alex's friends and Alex's parents
Dolphin is ready to go to Alex's home. On the right, the wedding organizer.
People were waiting for the bride outside.
Dolphin is behind the tissue of the palanquin
Alex will ride the horse to lead the ceremony until his home
The cortege, from left to right, Luc, Alex, Alan (in blue) and Clement.
Dolphin's palanquin
A lot of curious came to see the cortege, it is not every day that a Guilin girl marry a white guy!
Dolphin palanquin
The bride in the palanquin
Clem and Luc at Alex's hotel
We all have a lot of pictures of the ceremony... Alex's father also has the movie camera
Alex and Dolphin with the best man
Alex and Dolphin with Dolphin's friends
Alex and Dolphin with Rodolphe and Maggie
The preparation of the bed, very important if they want to have babies!
Peter's kid, he has to go on the bed with an other girl, this is part of the ceremony for them to have babies in the future
The two kids playing on the bed when they are not too afraid...
After the morning ceremony we had a quick lunch. Unfortunatly, the best man forgot to distribute the red pockets to the flag holders and music players...
The handsome flag holder again... ;-)
The guest offer their present, a red pocket, in exchange Dolphin offers candies, chocolat and cigarets.
From left to right, Alex's parents, the bridesmaid, Dolphin, Alex, Maggie, Rodolphe and Alan
From left to right, Alex's parents, the bridesmaid, Dolphin, Alex, Jea, Pauline and Alan
From left to right, the bridesmaid, Dolphin, Alex, Clement, Sab and Alan
Alex with his flag holder and best man
An othe rpicture from the wedding book. It was installed at the entrance of the restaurant.
The restaurant. never very hard to understand which color is used for the wedding in China.
Alex' parents
Dolphin parents
Alex is leading Dolphin to their parents for the last ceremony.
Luc with a "kid of honor"
All this ceremony was in chinese so I can not explain what really happened...
At the end of the ceremony, Rodolphe made a small lecture for Alex and Dolphin
During the lecture
the bridesmaid, one "kid of honor" and Clement
if I understood well, it means they are married, something like "you can kiss the bride" but in chinese...
During the dinner, Alex and Dolphin had to drink rice wine with each table (more than 20)
And very special people, drink one by one...
Alex' father
Alex seems to be able to handle rice wine!!
One more glass with Coco and Pauline!
I also had a special drink with Dolphin!
Alex and Luc
Alex with all the girls...............
Dolphin with all the boyssssssss
The day after we had the surprise to see (and not read) a report about their wedding!
After a lunch together on Sunday noon, we enjoyed a rest walking along the Li river
Guilin's pagodas
This bridge leads to a very small and quiet island with elders playing Majhong!
Guilin city
A fisherman on the bamboo boat
