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Why China’s happy couples are spending thousands to stand by Big Ben

5 May 2018

9:00 AM

5 May 2018

9:00 AM

If you’ve walked by the red telephone boxes on Parliament Square, chances are you have seen an Asian couple in full wedding dress posing for a photographer. A strange place to go after a wedding, you might think, but the odds are that they’re not (yet) married — and won’t be for some time.

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