Something borrowed: Grooms and guests for hire in Vietnam

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[QUOTE]HANOI: Kha's wedding day looked perfect from the outside but she was hiding a dark secret: the 27-year-old was three months pregnant and her husband was fake, hired for a staged wedding to avoid the social stigma of becoming a single mother.

Breaking from tradition in socially conservative Vietnam can come at a high price for the whole family.

"My parents would have been the first to be filled with shame if I was pregnant and without a husband," Kha, barely showing, told AFP a month after the US$1,500 fake marriage, which was quietly paid for by her baby's father who is married to another woman.

The wedding-guests-for-hire business is growing in Vietnam - where some 70 per cent of people over 15 are married - and not just among pregnant women like Kha looking for stand-in husbands.

Young couples are shelling out thousands of dollars to rent parents, aunts, uncles, godparents and friends to appease familial pressure to tie the knot or avoid clashes between in-laws who disapprove of the union.

Kha and her fake husband were never legally married - a formality often overshadowed by lavish wedding parties in Vietnam - but she is forever grateful to him for playing the part in front of her friends and relatives.
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Read more at [url]https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/something-borrowed-grooms-and-guests-for-hire-in-vietnam-9991514[/url]

[Patrick]

uh so how do you live the rest of your life? isn't it going to be suspicious when you either don't have your husband around that was at your wedding or it's a different actor every time playing your husband?

[derpmeifter]

[QUOTE=Pat.Lithium;53160658]uh so how do you live the rest of your life? isn't it going to be suspicious when you either don't have your husband around that was at your wedding or it's a different actor every time playing your husband?[/QUOTE]

he's in the shitter and it's a bad one, check back later

[t h e]

[QUOTE=Pat.Lithium;53160658]uh so how do you live the rest of your life? isn't it going to be suspicious when you either don't have your husband around that was at your wedding or it's a different actor every time playing your husband?[/QUOTE]

Well, in the person's case that's featured in the article, she's going to claim that they divorced

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[QUOTE=Pat.Lithium;53160658]uh so how do you live the rest of your life? isn't it going to be suspicious when you either don't have your husband around that was at your wedding or it's a different actor every time playing your husband?[/QUOTE]

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I'll like to have one of everything