 The apple pie wedding cake |
And you wanted to go to Vegas.
In the buzzing financial hub known for its fast living, young Hong Kong couples can now grab love on the run at the city’s McDonald’s outlets, which are offering a burgeoning new sideline: “McWeddings.”
On Valentine’s Day at a downtown McDonald’s close to the financial district, the fast food joint was decked out with pink balloons, a “cake” stacked from apple pies, as well as a pair of tiny souvenir crystal M rings, for a surprise engagement bash thrown by Kelvin, a young model, for his girlfriend, Ashley.
The McDonald’s “Warm and sweet wedding package,” at HK$9999 ($1282) a pop, includes wedding gifts, pink invitation cards emblazoned with golden arches, decor featuring the likes of Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar, and classic golden arches fare worth up to $385.
With two wedding parties confirmed for this year and around 70 other couples in talks, the American fast food giant is hoping this sideline will take off at a time of economic uncertainty, particularly with traditional Chinese weddings and banquets often imposing a huge financial burden on young couples.
That large pink McDonalds backdrop will cost you an extra $321.
How is different from a Vegas drive in wedding?
#1 sargasso_c said, “How is different from a Vegas drive in wedding?”
Mayor McCheese officiates – so you KNOW it’s legal. (But, if the marriage does go south, you can come back to the drive thru for a McQuickie divorce. You want alimony with that?)
How come there isn’t video of the Lara Logan sex attack yet?
Darn it, at least we’ve learned to sell those Asians SOMETHING, instead of just buying stuff from them all the time (which they’ve carefully marketed to us using our own cultural ‘space’…isn’t it about time we at least tried to do the same?).
For example, although USA companies clunked out trying to sell left-hand drive cars in Japan and big refrigerators that wouldn’t fit in Japanese kitchens, the KFC people learned to offer their restaurants as places to celebrate holidays (you need reservations!), and Domino’s pizza sells squid toppings, etc.
Banal junk food, sure, but maybe somebody’s actually doing some thinking there.
McD is perhaps just being a copycat.
I always say the Japanese walk a thin line between genius and insanity. These guy stepped over…
I was hoping for “Jack in the Box”