Chinese weddings

are the most frivolous affairs, never have I been to one before, but I was casually invited by one of my English Teachers Cheng Zhi.. or as you know him Scott. Well first off you don't need invitations, which I was glad, and as a forienger I guess I can consider my skin colour VIP quaility. Anyways the whole sindig takes about an hour, you eat dinner at some huge banquet hall/hotel/restaurant in the mean time the bride walks from table to table greating all their guests and of course at each table the couple recieves gifts (to pay for the affair). Now they do not get it for free, oh no, they have to do something at each table (and with 50 tables that is quite a task. Usually its drink a glass of bear.. well okay beer, or wine or hard liquor, but at some tables they are not so kind. They dump some rice, and pork, not to mention some fish and other items non congruent to the drinking kind into the glass(At those tables one can extrapolate a very poor and deprived childhood). A catch-22 indeed, if the couple does not drink they do not recieve the gifts... Hmm something to rememeber NOT to do at my wedding :).