Frenetic Hong Kong is about to supersize wedding planning - with fast-food McNuptials.
From January 1 selected McDonald's restaurants are to offer a wedding banquet service - you can even tie the knot with Ronald McDonald in attendance.
Instead of traditional - and pricey - banquet food, such as shark's fin soup or roasted pork skin, McDonald's Hong Kong will offer a fast-food banquet of French fries for starters, sundaes and milkshakes for dessert - and strictly soft drinks only for the wedding toasts - with the restaurant's piped music adding to the McRomance of the occasion.
And how could you want to miss the McDonald's wedding cake - specially made with apple pies, a burger of your choice, or even a Filet-o-Fish?
'Traditional weddings use cherries for the newlyweds to eat together and kiss. We will have French fries for them to kiss,' Helen Cheung Yuen-ling, director of corporate communications & relations, at McDonald's Hong Kong, said.
The company estimates a wedding will cost a few thousand Hong Kong dollars, including food, a wedding cake and gifts - compared with the HK$200,000 to HK$400,000 for some hotel wedding banquets.
Cheung said Hong Kong was the first place in the world to launch a McDonald's wedding programme; McDonald's weddings elsewhere are carried out strictly on a one-off basis.
