A total of 212 couples got married at City Hall – up 27 per cent on figure for last year
“Still another hour,” Siliang Chan, 33, said impatiently. He stood next to his soon-to-be wife Soolu Tsang, 27, in her flowing white dress and tiara, waiting outside the city’s marriage registry building early on Tuesday – Valentine’s Day. The date was doubly special for the couple given it was two days after the first anniversary of the couple getting together after meeting through friends and falling in love “after a motorcycle ride”, Chan said. Tsang, who was holding chocolates arranged in a bouquet, joked that their most romantic memory together was “getting into fights”. Once the ceremony was completed, Chan and Tsang posed on the steps outside the registry, with Chan at one point carrying his new wife bridal-style. When asked why they chose this day to get married, Chan said simply: “It’s Valentine’s Day!” The two were just one of 212 couples eager to tie the knot on Valentine’s Day this year, up 27 per cent on the year before. This year, the date fell near the start of the Year of the Rooster – a lucky year for marriage due to the double spring in the Lunar New Year cycle, which is symbolic of new life.
