A Wedding Dress, believe it or not.

Proving that reality TV participants do not have a monopoly on embarrassing ploys for celebrity, Reuters reports that a bride in northeastern China recently got married in a 1.2-mile-long wedding dress (with 9,999 silk red roses attached).  The idea apparently came from the groom’s wish to break the Guinness World Record for longest wedding dress (1.5km or 0.9 miles, held by a bride in Romania).

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The dress took three hours for guests to roll out (now there’s a fun wedding activity) and cost $5,856, which – granted – is actually not completely out of range for certain American wedding dresses but GIVE ME A BREAK!!  Do people really not have anything better to do with their time and money?   And this is China, where $5,856 dollars could probably buy food for the entire wedding party, their guests, and their families for a year.

All of which makes me want to call up CCTV and suggest that they launch a Chinese version of Bridezillas.

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