For the first wedding in the hotel, the banquet venue is draped in flowers and greenery to recreate a pastoral fairy-tale setting.

The wedding ceremony and dinner banquet were held in the hotel's 1,050-square-meter ballroom, one of the largest of its kind in the city, with the venue draped in flowers and greenery to recreate a pastoral fairy-tale setting.

To enable every bride and groom to enter in style, a special lift that can accommodate a limousine will bring the couple up to the ballroom for their grand entrance. The first couple chose to make their entrance in their own bright-red Ferrari, although the hotel can offer to chauffeur other brides and grooms up in a Rolls Royce.

It was certainly a breathtaking spectacle as the Ferrari roared into the ballroom to the appreciative roar of applause of the gathered guests.

Wang Cixuan, the bride, says the wedding ceremony exceeded her expectations even though she and her husband "had very high standards".

"They had thought about every detail, so we had nothing to worry about," she says. "All I had to do was make myself up nicely."

Wang says the carriage parade was an exciting highlight.

"I never imagined my wedding would be so," she says. "I was laughing all the way, just thinking how beautiful the photos and the video would be."

Wang has chosen the "Royal Romance", one of the wedding packages offered by Ritz-Carlton, and it combined royal luxury styles borrowed from Europe and the local Tianjin traditions.

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