Chinese wedding museum opens

Chinese wedding museum opens

HERE'S a museum that allows you to rent its displays as props and backdrops for wedding photoshoots.

An antique 100-year-old sedan car, a bridal chamber and make-up tables all these are available for rent at the new Heritage Wedding Gallery in Chinatown.

The gallery, the latest of about five private museums here, cost more than $300,000 to build, of which $100,000 was co-funded by the National Heritage Board.

It showcases every stage and setting of traditional Chinese weddings, from visiting the date analyst to choose an auspicious wedding date to the bridal chamber.

All these exhibits can be used as props and backdrops for bridal shoots, at a fee of $300 to $500 an hour. Even traditional costumes can be rented, via a partner bridal boutique.

Normal visitors who pay a $5 entry fee each will be allowed only to view the exhibits, which have signboards alongside them that provide the details of the wedding traditions.

At yesterday's soft opening of the museum, managing director Sean Lui said the call to set up the gallery had come from an increasing number of "confused" couples.

These couples had visited the gallery's parent company a traditional-wedding consultancy as they were unsure of the customs and procedures in a traditional Chinese wedding.

The gallery is located at:
38 North Canal Road.

-News courtesy of OMY-