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Q: Do newly weds get rich from their weddings?

Heard that some newly weds can make several tens of thousands just through hongbao's alone. Is this true? And does that change the reason for marrying?

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Sinse when are you rich when having several tens of thousands RMBlaughfrown???????

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If you have enough well off friends and rellos you could make a lot of money from the wedding, but if you are that well connected, it is all relative, and you would almost certainly be well off to start with.

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Normally, at a wedding banquet, the standard gift placed inside the hongbao is a 100 yuan new bill on the average.  From real special friends you may get 300 to 500 Yuan, from relatives or family members you may get even more.
But stop and think, if you collect 50,000 yuan from hongbaos, you will need at least a minimum of 400 guests, maybe even 500 or a little more.  And the place to hold, and the bill to feed and booze such a croud will eat most of that money.

So, ease your worries, no one gets rich from wedding gifts, unless you marry into money or Governement

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I just had my wedding and I can say with absolute certainty that I did not become rich. I got some money from my wife's realtives but I'm pretty far in the red. 

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If you count all the wedding expenses, you'll be far from getting rich.
I got married in Hefei, which is among the poorest cities in China, but still the wedding expenses were pretty high in the overall.
You certainly get hongbao, but you also need to give hongbao. Then most part of your wife's relatives are not that rich or living in the countryside, you may expect a hongbao of 100 yuan.
My wife and I paid most part of the expenses with my savings and my parents help.
Then you have to consider all the extras that go with the wedding and which are also not cheap (wedding pictures, wedding agency, wedding clothes, car rental, fireworks, rings).
For us, considering all expenses, we spent around 74'000 RMB and received 17'000 RMB of hongbao...because most part of my wife's relatives come from the countryside of Anhui and thus money is not running like water. Moreover, since I am a foreigner, I am also supposed to have money and thus no need to give too much.

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