Mixed marriages on the increase
By Wang Zhuoqiong (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-06-14 06:55
Bridegroom Ge Zhiming and his bride, Nataliya from Belarus, prepare wine for guests at their wedding ceremony in Huaian, Jiangsu Province in this November 26, 2004 photo.
For months they cooked in the same kitchen at college in London, each of them preparing their own meal, trying not to make it too obvious that something else was brewing.
It was a love match in the making. The ingredients: a Chinese girl named Cao Wei and a French boy called Patrick Rioual.
Casual glances and occasional chitchat soon turned in to a coffee date.
The rest is history, and 10 years on, happily married and living in Beijing, the couple have a 2-year-old son.
"Yes. He has big eyes and a large nose," said Cao, 38, a self-employed jewelry dealer. "But he is not foreign to me. He is my husband, my family."