Chapter 987: The Wedding (I)
Nowadays, many young people in China hold weddings, and many of them have both Chinese weddings and Western wedding processes. For example, the groom takes the best man to the bride's house to pick up the bride, sends red envelopes to break through the door to find shoes, etc., which is the procedure of a Chinese wedding, while the bride and groom wear a dress and wedding dress to swear in front of everyone, which is the procedure of a Western-style wedding. What's more, it also puts the tea ceremony for the parents in the traditional Chinese wedding, and the worship of the husband and wife in the high hall and the oath are carried out together, which is a more East-West mixed wedding.
Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting didn't like this hybrid wedding process very much. Since the wedding was held in Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting decided to skip the steps of traditional Chinese weddings such as picking up the bride and hold a purely Western-style wedding.
For this wedding, Xiao Yao did not invite a wedding planning company. The planning and preparation of the wedding were discussed and done by the two of them together with the planning department of the studio, and the specific preparations were completed by the staff of their own studio.
Xiao Yao's career or business scope spans many industries such as film, television, music, etc., and he can be regarded as a first-line celebrity in the Chinese entertainment industry, and he established a personal studio a few years ago. However, although Xiao Yao's career has developed well, his fame is big enough, and there are many types of business, the workload of this studio is relatively not very large.
In terms of music, Xiao Yao himself is a creator, and he writes songs for others, so he doesn't need the studio to help him invite songs and find music works. is to write songs for others, Xiao Yao rarely accepts invitations from other companies, but writes songs specifically for a certain singer for some reason, and most of them are temporary decisions with a pat on the head, so the studio doesn't even need to help him find a cooperative singer.
In terms of film and television, Xiao Yao is already a collection of various roles such as editor, director, producer, producer, etc., and has his own film and television company. The film and television projects he has participated in in the past few years are all projects created by himself, and he doesn't need the studio to help him find projects and roles. Xiao Yao makes the producer, the producers are all film and television companies, not their own studios, the project pulls investment, sponsorship, builds crews and finds cast and crew, etc., that is the business of the producers and producers of the film and television company, not Xiao Yao's studio.
In terms of variety shows, Xiao Yao's sense of variety shows is very good, coupled with his own fame, basically as long as he appears, he is responsible for ratings, he is a sweet and sweet spot in the variety show industry, and he is a guest that all programs rush to want. But Xiao Yao doesn't have much ambition and pursuit in variety shows, and he doesn't even have his own signature variety show until now, and he doesn't plan to have it. He goes on variety shows for fun, and for the promotion of film and television works, basically only as a flying guest, so it is very easy to contact.
In addition, he himself does not accept advertising endorsements, has never held a large-scale concert, and the studio does not sign other artists, so on the whole, Xiao Yao, the studio of a first-line star, has much less workload than many studios of second- and third-tier stars whose fame is not as good as his.
This time Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting held a wedding, and the people in the studio took the initiative to ask Ying to take on all the related things, and there was no need for Xiao Yao to find a wedding planning company. It was only because the wedding was held in Germany and it was a purely Western-style wedding, that I discussed with Xiao Yao and invited a senior independent wedding planner from Europe as a consultant to provide some necessary guidance.
Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting's wedding was held in Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany. Neuschwanstein Castle is now a famous tourist attraction in Germany, although it is a castle, but it is not inhabitable, at least tourists cannot live in it. Xiao Yao only got part of the venue as a wedding venue through a relationship, so naturally he couldn't live in it. So all the people involved in the wedding were based in Füssen, the nearest town to Neuschwanstein Castle.
After Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting arrived in Germany to meet with the staff of the studio preparing for the wedding, they found that all the preparations for the wedding had been almost done. The only thing they need to do is to adjust their physical condition and mentality, and wait for the wedding day to come.
Füssen itself is also a place full of romance. It is located in the foothills of the Alps, surrounded by mountains and lakes, and has a very beautiful natural scenery. The city has alleys and buildings dating back to the Middle Ages, and ornate Baroque churches abound. The post-Gothic Palazzo Hoa, the baroque Abbey of St. Manguer, and the idyllic square are all delightful.
Since they didn't need to worry about the preparations for the wedding, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting happily played in Fissen for two more days, continuing their honeymoon before the wedding.
However, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting's "honeymoon" only lasted for two days in Füssen. Two days after their arrival in Füssen, their families, siblings who served as groomsmen and bridesmaids, and guests invited to the wedding began to arrive in Füssen.
The people of Xiao Yao's studio have chartered a hotel in Fetsen, and the accommodation of all the guests has already been arranged, and there is also a special person responsible for the reception arrangements, in fact, there is no need for Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting to do anything specifically. But people are here to attend the wedding, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting, as the parties concerned, are already here, and they still have to come forward to receive them, and they don't even see each other when they are thrown away, and it is not suitable to take care of the world of the two of them.
Although he refused several media outlets' requests to cover the wedding live, and did not disclose the location and date of the wedding on social media, Xiao Yao still spotted the Chinese reporter outside the hotel where he was staying and even in the city of Felsen.
Xiao Yao didn't care too much about this. Although Xiao Yao had already informed the wedding that he would not invite media reporters when he sent the invitation, and also told the guests that he wanted to be as low-key as possible, he did not ask for absolute confidentiality. Even if those guests don't break the news to the media, they will inevitably be probed by gossip entertainment reporters with a heart. After all, a large part of the guests are also celebrities, and agents and assistants need to know the itinerary of celebrities, and Yuji is a very common way to find news from celebrity assistants.
On the big day, Xiao Yao was also very friendly to these reporters. found that a reporter was secretly filming, Xiao Yao would smile and wave to say hello, but when some reporters saw Xiao Yao's performance and had the courage to come up to Xiao Yao for an interview and a wedding report on the wedding, Xiao Yao still smiled and politely refused.
Most of the guests attending the wedding are Chinese, and there are also some Europeans and Americans, but everyone basically comes to Germany to go abroad. Because of going abroad, of course, everyone will not wait until the wedding day to leave, and always have to come early, but most of these guests are celebrities, and most of them have a tight schedule, so it is impossible to come too early. The arrival of the guests also means that the wedding day is approaching.
Thanks to a senior Western wedding planner as a consultant, Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting's Western-style wedding is still very authentic. Not only are the processes in the wedding completely in accordance with the Western wedding, but the old, new, borrowed, and blue things that are customary in the Western wedding are prepared, and even the bridal shower, bachelorette party, and rehearsal dinner before the wedding are also arranged.
The best men and bridesmaids are basically the group of people who have the best relationship with the bride and groom. Xiao Yao's best man group is Zhao Rui, Lin Qisan, and Zhou Zhihao. Sun Tingting's bridesmaid group is Zhu Zitong, Nina Aiyiguli and Lin Qisan's sister Lin Xiaoyi. They were also the first of all the guests to arrive at Dafüssen, with their parents.
A large part of the reason why they arrived early was for the bridal shower and farewell bachelorette party. Whether it is in the past life or in this world, there are many grooms in film and television works who delay the wedding the next day because they had too much fun at the farewell bachelorette party the night before. Xiao Yao didn't want the tragedy in the film and television works to happen to him, so he arranged these two events two days before the wedding, and the day before the wedding was a relatively low-spirited rehearsal dinner that was unlikely to make a mistake.
Although the time for the farewell bachelorette party and the bridal shower was set by Xiao Yao, according to tradition, the specific content of these two events was not decided by Sina and the bride, but by others who attended the event. Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting have already arrived in Germany, so it is naturally impossible to fly back to Huaxia to attend the party and then fly to Germany, and the venue of these two events can only be near the wedding venue. Zhao Rui and the others have never been to Fessen, and if they want to arrange a farewell bachelor party, they always have to take the time to familiarize themselves with the environment, and of course they need to come early.
There are many tricks that can be carried out at the farewell bachelor party, but Zhao Rui, Lin Qisan and Zhou Zhihao all grew up with Sun Tingting, and they all have the mentality of their mother's family, plus they are not familiar with Feisen, so they didn't spend money to invite some messy people to the party to do some messy shows, and the main content is that everyone drinks together.
The farewell bachelor party was organized by the best men Zhao Rui and Lin Qisan, but it was not only the groom and best man who attended the party, Xu Fei, Chen Chen and several other single men with good relationships and similar ages also participated. Xiao Yao is the groom, so he is naturally the object of the other people's drinking at the party. This night, Xiao Yao was drunk by everyone without any suspense. But fortunately, Xiao Yao is young, in good health, and his ability to metabolize alcohol is also very good, and the discomfort of the hangover the next day is not too strong, and it does not affect the rehearsal dinner in the afternoon and evening.
After saying goodbye to the bachelorette party and the rehearsal dinner, the wedding day has arrived.
Western-style weddings generally take place in the afternoon. After lunch, everyone departed from the town of Füssen to Neuschwanstein Castle.
Although Xiao Yao did not have any commercial endorsements, and the wedding did not sell live broadcast rights to the media and invite media reporters to participate, their wedding, media reports must be indispensable, and there are a large number of celebrities among the guests, which also has a considerable publicity effect, so this wedding still attracted some sponsorship. Of course, these sponsorships do not involve money, they are all in-kind sponsorships of items needed for the wedding. Just spend less money, and definitely won't make money from weddings.
The largest sponsorship came from BMW. Since Xiao Yao and BMW have established a very good relationship through the advertising film series, Martin Groz of BMW sent Xiao Yao 36 cars as wedding cars with a wave of his hand, which can be regarded as a wedding gift from BMW and himself.
Of the 36 cars, four were commercial vehicles for wedding staff, and they had already set off for Neuschwanstein Castle in the morning. Among the remaining 32 cars, the two cars for the groom, the best man and the bride and bride maids, are BMW's latest high-end sedans launched this year, and the other 30 cars used to carry guests are vehicles of the same model and color. Such an all-BMW convoy drove up Neuschwanstein Castle, which was very shocking to watch, and attracted the attention of many tourists who visited Neuschwanstein Castle on the way.
Arriving at Neuschwanstein Castle, guests head to the wedding venue, while the bride, groomsmen, bridesmaids, bridesmaids and parents go to their respective dressing rooms to change and touch up their makeup.
Western-style weddings are traditionally held in the afternoon, and there is no specific auspicious time. The bride and groom are ready, and the wedding officially begins.
Although Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting held a very traditional Western-style wedding, the process is still very familiar to everyone.
The celebrant enters the venue and announces the start of the wedding ceremony. The groom takes his place on the stage, the groomsmen and bridesmaids take their places on the left and right sides of the stage facing the guests, the flower girl holds the flower basket in front and scatters flower petals, the bride comes out holding her father's arm, the bride's father puts the bride's hand in the hands of the groom, the bride and groom answer the question in front of the priest and say "I do", that is, take an oath, put wedding rings on each other, the groom hugs and kisses the bride, the priest declares the two husband and wife, and so on.
is different from many East-West mixed weddings in China: Sun Tingting is a believer, so the on-site presiding over the oath is a real pastor, and then there is no link for the bride and groom to tell their love history, and there is no link for the bride and groom to give speeches to their families, and even the link where the bride throws a bouquet of flowers is also put on the dinner party at the back.
After the wedding ceremony, the next step is the photo session. Xiao Yao specially invited Chen Xuan, a big-name photographer, to be the photographer at the wedding scene, and there is naturally no restriction on taking pictures. In addition to the traditional group photo, anyone who wishes to take a photo with the bride and groom can also take a photo with the bride and groom, and even some people can come together, and the combination of photo subjects can also be used freely. This is also the time for guests to have a free time between the wedding ceremony and the dinner.
Neuschwanstein Castle was built as his residence by King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Since it is an imperial palace, of course, there are various places with different uses and functions. In addition to various rooms such as bedrooms, study, and living rooms, the castle also has a large banquet hall. Xiao Yao and Sun Tingting's wedding ceremony was held on the lawn of the castle's outdoor courtyard, and the wedding dinner was held in the castle's banquet hall.
After the ceremony, the guests did not have to leave Neuschwanstein Castle and had their photo shoot to explore Neuschwanstein Castle and in the evening went straight to the banquet hall for dinner.