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Divorce ceremony gets cold reception in Shanghai
(chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-06-02 10:57



You may have been to a lot of weddings in your life, but have you been to
a divorce ceremony? A company in Shanghai has been offering divorce
ceremonies since February of this year, but they're having a hard time
finding business.

Divorces are usually tense situations with couples almost never
remembering the good times they had during their marriage. In light of
this, the company offers to organize a party or a picnic to commemorate
the marriage, but still has to serve a single couple.

According to a Shanghai website, couples don't like the idea of a divorce
ceremony for two reasons. One is that they don't want to think about the
painful marriage any more. The other is that to many Chinese divorce is
still a source of shame and they don't want others to know about it.

What does a divorce ceremony look like in other countries? In a divorce
ceremony in Canada, a couple simply repeated their vows, replacing the
words "I do" with "I'm sorry." In another, the couple confessed to each
other where they failed, asked forgiveness and blessed each other as they
began their future apart. At that point, the pastor pronounced them free
from their marriage vows. Though it's not very popular in any country, it
really helps people, some marriage experts say.
















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