Nothing unusual about that you might think…until I tell you that one of the friends was a big, green but very friendly dragon and the other was a phoenix, a splendid bird with shimmering gold ...

The dragon and the phoenix are common motifs in Chinese wedding jewellery. They always appear in pairs and represent harmony ...

A Chinese wedding has many of the trappings of a Western marriage and in addition rituals, traditions and matters of etiquette to follow. In our series on Chinese weddings, we break these down and ...