Bride Weds in World’s longest Wedding Veil
August 7, 2009 by Christine Gooding
Filed under Wedding Fashion, Wedding Gowns, Weddings and Honeymoons in the News
When I got married back in 2001, the trend for brides back then were very long veils or trains. I had a long-ish train but it was definitely short compared to the other brides before and after me. It’s definitely short compared to this Chinese bride who wore a 2 kilometer long wedding train! yaiks!
Image: sxc.hu
A bride wore a wedding dress with a 2km (1.2 mile) train to her wedding.
The groom’s family handmade the dress and more than 200 wedding guests took three hours to unroll the train and pin 9,999 red roses on it before the ceremony in China’s Jilin Province.
Groom Zhao Peng, a 28-year-old railway worker, wanted to challenge the current world record of a wedding train of 1,579 metres, the state run Xinhua news agency reported.
I am not sure I wanted a wedding train or veil that long. Do you know how heavy that is on the head? There are some couples who want their weddings to be remembered by others whether it’s through a unique bridal party dance or a wedding dance thriller or to have a life-size image of you for your wedding cake and now the latest, the longest wedding train to compete with what the record in the Guinness.
Remember though that while you want to achieve worldwide fame, you also have to think about your (and if you’re not the bride), your bride’s comfort. It’s hard enough to maintain composure as you walk down the aisle where all eyes are on you, and then have to think about not getting pulled back by 2 kilometers of wedding veil!
However, to each his or her own and if it makes you happy then go for it! 
