This Article is From Aug 06, 2009

2.1 km-long wedding dress for Chinese bride

Beijing:

A Chinese bride on Thursday wore a 2.1 km-long wedding dress in her bid to enter the Guinness record book.

Lin Rong, 25, turned up for her wedding wearing a 2,162-metre-long gown and it took over three hours for the 200 guests to unroll her wedding train and pin 9,999 red silk roses on her dress, Xinhua news agency reported.

Groom Zhao Peng said he wanted to challenge the current world record of 1,579 metres.

"Both the length of the dress and the number of silk roses pinned on the wedding dress can make history. But it doesn't matter whether I can successfully register it on Guinness," the 28-year-old railway employee from northeast Jilin province was quoted as saying.

Zhao said he had sent an application to Guinness World Records and would also send a video of his wedding with Lin, a school teacher.

Zhao said his family was initially not enthusiastic about the high price tag for the wedding gown which cost a whopping 40,000-yuan (about $6,000).

"It is a waste of money in my opinion," his mother said. "Though I understand that he wants to show his love on the big day," she added.

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