Anyway, the door ramming stuff are Hongkee culture. It is not even a chinese tradition.

oliviasy – the door ramming event can be fun sometimes. It depends on what kind of trick the girls manage to come up with.

doc – i actually suggested that to the groom. Get a PS2, and some beers. And we’ll hang out until those bunch of kidnappers’ patience running thin – and they’ll open the frigging door.

Spiritual marriage
Traditonal Chinese custom believes that those in the afterlife continue with a life in the physical world. People who have passed away can thus be married to people who are living- this is known as ‘spiritual marriage’. This may occur in extremis if, for example, a family has only one male heir who dies young and unmarried thus leaving the family without the possibility of ancestor worship. To ensure that this continues, the family of a dead man will search for a bride- who may be the late man’s girlfriend- and her family is offered a sum of money. If a marriage results, the ceremony is similar to the normal marriage ceremony, the bride comes to live with the dead man’s family and may then adopt a child to thus continue the lineage.
Marriage between two dead people is also possible- if, by the help of a medium, it is ascertained that the dead man has not married in the afterlife- and a close nephew will be adopted as the dead man’s son. Spiritual marriage is very uncommon.

… there you go..

i think the the sole reason for doing that.. so that the deceased has a “family” and won’t be lonely. er.. yeah.

i ve heard about the marrying deceased before…sometimes some ghosts get pissed offed if they died before getting married or sometimes ghosts fall in love with living beings…and sometimes they disturb living beings cause of that. So to appease their spirits need to find somebody to get married to them.

YP – my wedding ? i didn’t organize any reception. just registration at an office.

but then, something actually happened during that day, which I’ll save for another day to blog about.