26-year-old Ruan Liming and 25-year-old Du Luyao ended their 2,789-day love affair. The wedding car they chose was a surprise and romantic choice for their family and friends - a No. 520 bus. The two young people started their journey to a happy life with a special ceremony.
Celebrating happy characters, bright ribbons, and colorful hangings filled the carriage. The ordinary 26-seater bus was "transformed" into a privately customized "happy wedding car." The day before the wedding, the couple's relatives and friends specially decorated the bus carefully. They posted photos of the couple on the windows, and hung red "囍" characters and balloons in the carriage.
Not only that, the big red flowers hanging on the front of the car and the banners posted on both sides of the carriage all add to the festive atmosphere and appear full of love. Early in the morning of the wedding day, the bus arrived at the designated location on time to wait for the newlyweds.
At 7:20 in the morning, Ruan Liming and his team of relatives and friends got into the car and went to the woman's house to pick up the bride. They then drove to the lunch venue with the bride and her relatives and friends. After the ceremony, they returned to the new house with 26 relatives and friends. The 10.5-meter bus traveled more than 100 kilometers back and forth. While ensuring safety, 26 young people had a great time taking photos, singing, recording videos, and performing shows.
Ruan Liming is an employee of Changfeng County Public Transport Group. He usually pays attention to the news on the Internet about some newlyweds in domestic cities using buses to pick up their relatives. He feels that this method is not only energy-saving and environmentally friendly, but also lively and festive, so he told his girlfriend Du Luyao about the idea. The two agreed that "as young people, weddings should be simple."
"We saw the precautions for picking up relatives on buses through Douyin and Xiaohongshu. The county bus group also had a car rental business in the past, but it was only used to pick up relatives and friends for meals. This is the first time that it is used to pick up relatives." Ruan Liming recalled that he asked the company After agreeing, he and his girlfriend finalized various details and came up with creative ideas such as tying balloons to the seats and changing the starting point of the bus route sign with the name of the couple.
Ruan Liming and Du Luyao were classmates in junior high school. After the college entrance examination in 2016, the two began to fall in love. He was worried that his family would not agree when he chose to take a bus to pick up his bride, because in the local area, newlyweds basically rent a "luxury car" when getting married, thinking that this is "premium".
The elders on both sides did raise some questions. They believed that this was “unheard of” in the county. After the two young people's persuasion and explanation, both families finally chose to respect the young people's ideas, and the preparations went very smoothly.
Early in the morning on the wedding day, under the watchful eyes and blessings of relatives and friends, Ruan Liming and Du Luyao embarked on this festive and romantic wedding car. On the road, this wedding car received many compliments and blessings, becoming a beautiful sight on the street.
The bride, Du Luyao, is a mathematics teacher. In her opinion, compared with traditional luxury cars for wedding receptions, bus wedding cars have a large space. Relatives and friends can sing, bless, and take photos on a bus. It is festive and lively, very fashionable, personalized, down-to-earth, and environmentally friendly and low-cost. carbon. "Our wedding car is the most stylish, and we are the happiest 'conspicuous bags'." She said with emotion.
Ruan Liming felt that the happy effect of friends sitting in a car, chatting and singing together exceeded everyone's expectations, and it became a highlight moment that can be remembered for a lifetime.
In their opinion, compared with traditional wedding cars, "bus wedding cars" have many advantages: firstly, the cost is lower, the unit price of bus rental is generally lower than that of luxury wedding cars, and couples can also buy materials to decorate the wedding car by themselves, which can save a lot money; secondly, the sense of atmosphere is not diminished, relatives and friends ride in the same car, laughing and blessing all the way, which is more in line with the original meaning of joint witnessing, joint celebration and joint blessing of the wedding, and can also leave different beautiful memories for the newlyweds and their relatives and friends; Sanlai is not only full of creativity, but also advocates low-carbon green travel and leads the new trend of fashionable, green and economical weddings in the future.
In recent years, Changfeng County in Hefei has continued to make efforts in innovating wedding customs and etiquette, providing marriage and family counseling services, and promoting the reform of marriage customs. More and more young people in Changfeng are beginning to break the stereotypes and keep pace with the times, which has given rise to a series of novel, civilized, low-carbon and environmentally friendly wedding methods.
In fact, for some time, in order to better serve the wedding needs of couples, Hefei City has launched urban services linked by multiple departments such as culture and tourism, civil affairs, rail, and public transportation, focusing on the theme of "running towards happiness, sharing happiness, and lasting happiness". The creativity of young people can better satisfy the citizens’ good wishes of “starting from here towards happiness”.
On December 28 last year, Anhui Province’s first park-style marriage registration office officially opened to the public. The registration office is located in the Garden Expo Town of Luogang Park, covering an area of about 750 square meters, with complete facilities and elegant layout. Outdoors, old buildings and modern landscapes complement each other, with green trees, birds singing and flowers fragrant, and 4 photo-taking spots for newlyweds are provided. On New Year's Day 2024, 214 couples registered their marriage here.
Not long ago, the country's first marriage registration office in a rail station, the Xingfuba Marriage Registration Office, was completed, marking the launch of private customized urban wedding services in Hefei Rail. In addition, in order to provide Hefei citizens with low-carbon, environmentally friendly, novel, unique and festive travel services when they get married, Hefei Public Transport Group will launch 3 "Happiness Bus" customized special lines from January 19, 2024 to facilitate citizens to take the "Happiness Bus" "Bus" takes wedding photos, collects certificates and clocks in, picks up and sends off relatives, and sets off towards a happy and beautiful life.
He Liang China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Wang Haihan Wang Lei Source: China Youth Daily