A bride stranded in her hometown in Sichuan province couldn’t make it back in time for her wedding ceremony, so instead of cancelling the wedding and disappointing all their guests (or, you know, doing it another day) the groom got her sister to fill in for her.

Liu Wei, the groom, persuaded his sister in law to put on the dress and perform the ceremony with him. She was reluctant at first but relented in the end.

Seeing as in China actual marriage registration and the wedding ceremony are separate, the ceremony wasn’t legally binding.

In the end she ‘tied the knot’ in front of 300 wedding guests, who may or may not have felt equally weird about the whole thing, even sealing the deal with a kiss.

The groom later said “After all, the ceremony is just going through the motions and a way to make people get together and have some fun,"

Source：Global times

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