Hong Kong McDonald's To Offer Wedding Packages

McDonald's in Hong Kong would love to super size your nuptials. Starting January 1st, couples can spend few thousand Hong Kong dollars and have a McWedding. From the article: "The package has all the details to attract a wedding banquet cynic or a Golden Arches obsessive: a baked apple pie wedding cake, dress made out of party balloons, kiddie party favors for guests, and of course, catering by McDonald's. Alcohol is banned to make sure there won't be drunk party guests acting inappropriately at the family venue, so newlyweds will have to toast their union with soft drinks instead."

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In & Out wedding

[penguinchris]

I was eating at an In & Out burger in Fullerton CA and a wedding couple came in, with full-on dress and everything, and a photographer with a couple of assistants. They took a lot of pictures. Pretty silly but I suppose it means something to the couple - maybe that's where they proposed.

That said McDonald's in Asia is weird. In Thailand I've only seen them from the outside (I don't eat there in the US either) but it was mostly tourists, as one might expect. They put them in the places where tourists congregate (often next to a Starbucks, also no surprise). But the thing is that there are only two types of tourists who seem to go in - western tourists with young kids, where the kids presumably forced the parents to go there, and Asian tourists not from Thailand. For some reason, middle and upper-middle class Asians seem to really like it. You do also see school kids who are interested because it's foreign (or whatever reason) - fast food places like this are actually cool among high school and middle school kids. I don't think this is anywhere near true anymore in the US.

Anyway, I can sort of understand McDonald's in the US - the food isn't very good but it's pretty cheap and you always know what to expect. in Asia, though, I can't comment on the quality but the prices are no longer cheap. It's one of the most expensive options! I suppose it is faster than most places, which counts for something I guess. But there are generally a lot of other options, all kinds of different foods, and most of which are cheaper. Doesn't make sense to me, but I suppose it'll wear off there eventually, like it did to some extent in the US.

In China American products are fashionable

[0olong]

Eating American junk food is considered cool by the young folk in China, and is not looked down upon yet as it is in much of the western world. Same goes for smoking cigarettes and so on...

Re:In China American products are fashionable

[donscarletti]

Well, Hong Kong isn't really quite the same as the regular China, HK has had this stuff for 35 years, roughly as long as most other developed places outside North America. In HK it is roughly seen in the same way and thus a wedding in one is likely to be for kitsch value.