14 DAY TRIAL // Chinese bride Liu Cheng from Quanzhou celebrated her wedding day by strapping on 11 pounds (5 kg) in solid gold jewelry, worth an estimated $320,000 (€250,000).
According to the Daily Mail, the wedding dress was adorned with necklaces, bracelets, gems, and rings. It took an hour for the 26-year-old bride to get into her dress and put on the remaining pieces of jewelry.
The woman's mother, Lin Hu, wanted to give the groom the feeling that Liu was from a “good family.”
“I've been collecting these pieces for years, and I got my relatives to do so as well because it’s important to show her new relatives that she comes from a good family.[...] We would save money and when the gold price was low we would buy - and sometimes when it was high we would sell to have cash to buy more gold later - it worked really well,” she explains.