Regarding whether the wedding should be Chinese-style or Western-style, Han Yingying and Shen Mosheng each had their own insistence.
Han Yingying believed that wearing a wedding dress and walking beautifully into the chapel surrounded by bridesmaids was a woman's dream.
The old-fashioned Shen Mosheng insisted that only after paying respects to heaven and earth, as well as to the parents, did one truly become husband and wife.
For words and promises to be witnessed by heaven and earth, and by parents and friends, makes them even more binding.
Western weddings were certainly romantic, but Chinese ones were even more solemn and sacred.
Seeing that neither would compromise, fearing that the wedding would fall through because of this, both sets of parents decisively decided:
Wear a wedding dress for the procession, following Western customs.
Wear Chinese wedding attire for the wedding ceremony, following Chinese customs.