A wedding cum funeral

Most couples marry when they are both healthy and living but in some bizarre cases, there are marriages where the other person is deceased.

The surviving person insisted in marrying to the deceased person and going through those customary rituals to solemnize their wedding . For them, love is eternal and nothing can separate their love even when they are in different worlds.

Love knows no bounds..A women of 50 in China finally married her dead husband of 32 , who died of cancer in January and his body was embalmed.

The wedding took place in a funeral parlour. After the 'I Do' wedding ceremony, she then proceeded to the funeral ceremony.

She was turned away by most of those wedding planners as the Chinese believed that 'red'(Weddings = Double Happiness) and 'white' (Death) cannot be mixed

Both their parents were absent from the ceremony because they were against their relationship. It was about the age factor.

She claimed that they were just 5 years difference between them and not as 18 . In that kind of conservative society ,where the men should be older and not the other way round.

Even after the death, those narrow minded parents could not forgive this couple and blessed them .This is effectually , cutting them off .

It is sad when parents don't bless their children's marriage. After all, who is more important? The children have a longer road to travel in life . Why cant they just accept that our society has changed. The children have their new world.

The parents are old and may not live long. Is it so hard to think of our children's happiness?
I simply cannot understand why parents don't bless their relationships.

They were both well educated , matured and loved each other. As parents ,we should grant their wishes to be together .We should think of our children's happiness which is more important than our happiness.

Some parents still think of their children as children forever. Once ,after they have attained 21 years old, they are considered as adults and can think for themselves. Let them decide and give them our blessings.

She was no ordinary girl. She got her masters from a university in the US and met her husband who is a senior engineer.
She was too modern for her society where she came from. Her parents could not accept her decisions .

Each of us have to decide what is best for ourselves and if our parents does not agree, there is nothing one can do about it.

Parents should not be too stubborn or hold on to traditional views. The old world must pass and the new world to begin.

Live and let live…


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