JULIAN WAINWRIGHT FOR TIME
A young couple pose for photos at a wedding shop in Hanoi. Massive wedding parties, at which guests are expected to leave envelopes of money, has become so lavish that the government has issued several decrees asking bureaucrats to lead by example and have more modest nuptials



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