Attention laowai men! If you’ve got a Chinese girlfriend, Qingniao Photos has the secret to your domestic bliss: get that girl a set of wedding photos.
China’s craze for wedding photos — with or without the wedding — is well known (and documented by Su Fei in this Sexy Beijing episode
). Up until now, however, dressing up to snap kitchy glam shots in romantic locales was the domain of Chinese couples. But Qingniao Photos apparently has its finger on the pulse of a profitable Beijing trend: there are enough rich laowai guys with Chinese girlfriends — and sufficient social acceptance of interracial couples — to make a market.
The Qingniao Photos ad below literally says, “the most beautiful scenery + the happiest lovers = the most enchanting memories,” but what Qingniao Photos really wants laowai men to remember is: foreigners may never be able to assimilate in China, but that doesn’t mean you can stint on the wedding photos.