{"id":16460,"date":"2013-06-14T11:59:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T07:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=16460"},"modified":"2013-06-14T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T07:59:04","slug":"dress-to-impress-boyfriend-puts-on-a-wedding-gown-to-propose-to-his-girlfriend-and-fortunately-it-didnt-put-her-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=16460","title":{"rendered":"Dress to impress: Boyfriend puts on a wedding gown to propose to his girlfriend (and fortunately it didn&#8217;t put her off!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Liu-and-his-girlfriend1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16461\" alt=\"Liu and his girlfriend\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Liu-and-his-girlfriend1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Liu-and-his-girlfriend1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Liu-and-his-girlfriend1-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Most men get a little nervous at the prospect of popping the question.<\/p>\n<p>But while most men are confident that their question and a ring will secure a yes, one man decided to prove to his girlfriend just how serious he was &#8211; by wearing a wedding dress.<\/p>\n<p>Besotted Liu, 23, thought his girlfriend Liang Sun wouldn&#8217;t take him seriously if he simply popped the question at their university in Chongqing city, southern China.<br \/>\nSo he climbed into a wedding dress and hired florists to decorate her student digs with a heart-shaped display of blooms under a banner saying: &#8216;Bride &#8211; I love you.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I wore it because I wanted to tell her that one day I want to see her in this dress beside me,&#8217; explained Liu.<\/p>\n<p>And it would appear his hard work paid off &#8211; Liang immediately agreed to the unusual proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The process of engagement and marriage in China is steeped in traditions.<\/p>\n<p>There are three parts of a Chinese marriage &#8211; the legal part, the ceremony, and the party.<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese marriage that does not observe proper Chinese customs is invalid in the eyes of most Chinese society.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most men get a little nervous at the prospect of popping the question. But while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}