: Spread across two floors, more than 200 vendors competed at Beijing Olympic-sized wedding expo for the attention -- and, more importantly, the wallets -- of thousands of young couples, according to CNN. Tibetan couple unconventional wedding pictures go viral Ballooning burden A woman poses for a wedding picture at the Bund in front of the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai on a sunny day on March 19, 2015. Armed with balloons, teddy bears and goody bags filled with coupons, throngs of salespeople stood outside their booths, shoving free gifts into the hands of visitors in an attempt to turn them into clients. Everything was on sale at a discount, but even a rough calculation on site pointed to the soaring cost of getting married in China. In the United States, the average cost of a wedding -- excluding a honeymoon -- has a similar price tag of $25,200, according to the latest figure released by the Wedding Report, a market research firm. The total bill could easily exceed $20,000 -- an unimaginable sum just a few years ago -- counting a pair of rings, a bridal gown, a banquet, a photo shoot and a professional planner.
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