A special wedding

Yu's story made many people feel true love again.
"Although the bride passed away, she had the perfect love many people desire but cannot have today,"

Devoted partner Yu Liang, 27, married his fiancee's body after she died just days before their wedding day.

Bride Zhang Jinying, 25, was clothed in her wedding dress and brought up the aisle in a flower-covered glass coffin for the service in Zhengzhou, central China.

Cosmetics saleswomen Jinying had died during an epileptic fit, but her fiance persuaded her grieving parents to go ahead with the service.

"I had promised her a white wedding and I wasn't going to break my word to her. I now feel like her husband," said Liang.

A funeral service was held immediately after the wedding.

Now Liang plans to take the honeymoon the couple planned in Korea - taking a photo of his bride with him.

Yu could not help crying

The bridegroom looks at his wife's parents. A red ribbon, traditionally
worn by the bridegroom on his chest, has never been seen in the funeral
parlor before.

The priest pronounces them husband and wife.

It was love at first sight

Yu Liang, the bridegroom, is from Chengdu, Sichuan Province and works as a salesperson in a laptop company located in the city of Leshan.

Zhang Jinying, the bride, was from Zhengzhou, Henan Province. She studied in a vocational and technical school and was a Christian.

Yu joined the army in Zhengzhou in December 2003. In December 2006, they became lovers. They were engaged in Chengdu in April 2009 and received their marriage certificate in August 2009. On November 8 2009, Zhang died in Zhengzhou from a sudden epileptic fit. At 6pm on November 9 2009, Yu arrived in Zhengzhou after taking a night flight from Chengdu.



WEDDING 2
French woman marries boyfriend one year after he died
A woman in France has married her boyfriend of six years - a year after he died.


Magali Jaskiewicz and Jonathan George had planned to wed at their local town hall in November 2008, but he was killed just two days before the ceremony in a motorcycle accident.
Ms Jaskiewitz, 32, used a little-known section of the French civil code that allows posthumous marriages if all the formalities for the wedding were completed before one of the partners died, including the setting of a date.

She proved to officials that she and Mr George had been living together since 2004 and that they shared a bank account. She also provided a photo of the wedding dress she had bought to wear to their wedding.

Standing alone in the aisle at the town hall, she was "married" to Mr George at a ceremony attended by 30 family members and friends in the village of Dommary-Baroncourt, in eastern France, on Saturday.

Around ten posthumous marriages are carried out each year in France, French interior ministry officials said.