Hong Kong's anti-epidemic measures have been greatly relaxed. This year is a good year for marriage in the "double spring and leap month". It is expected that many people will seize the opportunity to get married.
How has the wedding pattern changed since then?
"Hong Kong 01" interviewed a wedding planner, dismantling the wedding after "full return to normal", not only to satisfy the "Four Elders", but also to have a warm and romantic "light wedding", there are many things to pay attention to.
Jiang Wanjun (Jessica), who has been engaged in wedding planning for more than ten years, has prepared hundreds of weddings, including many celebrities, such as Wang Junxin and Zhong Shuqi's weddings. Prepared the first wedding of 19 people.
Jiang Wanjun (Jessica), who has been engaged in wedding planning for more than ten years, disassembles weddings in the post-epidemic era.
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"Light wedding" is popular
After experiencing a large "shrinkage" of the wedding scale, and finally waiting for the relaxation of the epidemic prevention and a good year for marriage, Jessica sighed: "The popular wedding at home may no longer need me!" She explained that the wedding market is gradually changing, and the current trend is simplicity Weddings are followed up by a specific team, and a planner of her level is rarely needed. She also said with a smile, "Like Li Jiaxin, there are fewer guests who are willing to spend 10 million on a wedding!"
Today, young people generally prefer Western-style weddings, but at the same time, they must take into account the feelings of the elders. Jessica pointed out that a wedding can be split into several parties, and then handled by different teams to meet the needs of all parties. "Maybe no more dinner parties, But it is hosting cocktail parties and luncheons, and the elderly care about their health, so after lunch, it will be easier to digest.”
Anson, head of the wedding planning company Your Wedding Partners, also said that "light weddings" are popular, and couples with small budgets will choose to go to wedding exhibitions and social platforms "Price" by themselves.
Jessica said that the requirements of the four elders are gradually decreasing, but the wedding expenses are not reduced.
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The four elders demanded that the wedding expenses not be reduced
Weddings are becoming more and more simple, what if the four elders who love grandeur are "cheating"?
Jessica said: "In the past, the fish I liked the most was Midong Xingban? Is there any shark fin food? Now the family's health is the top priority, and it is also environmentally friendly. Maybe the abalone is not used as it is, and the shark's fin can be stewed in chicken soup. , now their age group (not so old), they don’t pay much attention to Chinese food.”
Asked whether "light wedding" is more "skin-saving"?
Jessica said that wedding expenses are still similar to those before the epidemic. Before the epidemic, there were usually 30 banquets, but now the scale has been reduced to 20, but the price of a banquet has also risen from 8,000 yuan to more than 10,000 yuan, plus photography (50,000 yuan) RMB), wedding venue layout (20,000 yuan), rental wedding dress (ranging from 10,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan), and a wedding costs about 360,000 yuan.
Jessica said that the gift money should be at least enough to buy a pair of dragon and phoenix, about 50,000 to 60,000 yuan.
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The gift money is at least enough to buy a pair of dragon and phoenix
Among the wedding expenses, besides banquets, which cost the most, gift money also makes the groom's head scarred. How much gift money is appropriate?
Jessica said that the gift money must be at least enough to buy a pair of dragon and phoenix, about 50,000 to 60,000 yuan. "The dragon and phoenix will eventually be given back to the bride. Although the goldware is in the heart of the parents, the gift money is just for use."
However, a pair of dragon and phoenix will "look at the head" at some point, and most of the elders will also send their hearts, so as to make the bride look decent on the wedding day.
However, Jessica pointed out that most couples will sell the goldware after the wedding is over. "(Goldenware) will be deformed once worn, unless the seniority is very high, otherwise it will be sold when the price of gold is high."
For the elders, this move is not "unfilial". Jessica said: "The elders donate goldware because they don't want to pay cash, and they will do it as a favor." After more than 30 years of preservation, the style of goldware will also become outdated. Therefore, newcomers will choose to sell them, or keep them for many years and then melt them down and reforge them. "However, a few pairs of dragon and phoenix are worth hundreds of thousands of yuan, so it is not safe for them to be used for housing."
