McDonald's in Hong Kong has found a whole new way to say, "I'm lovin' it!"
Starting January 1 next year, CNN International reports, the chain will begin offering wedding receptions at four of Hong Kong's 200 McDonald's restaurants. The parties will accommodate up to 100 guests, who will be plied with party favors and (presumably) Big Macs. An apple pie wedding cake will serve as the bride and groom's first sweet taste of happily ever after. (We were envisioning one big gravity-defying apple pie, but press photos show that it's really a tower of individually boxed pies tiered like a wedding cake and decked with ribbons.)
Don't expect a champagne toast, however. Since McDonald's restaurants aren't licensed to serve alcohol, well-wishers will have to content themselves with Triple Thick shakes instead.
If it all seems a bit, well, tacky at first, upon reflection there's something sort of sweet about it. After all, plenty of Americans get married by Elvis impersonators in Vegas -- to each is own. And who's to say a McDonald's can't be as romantic as a ballroom at your local Hyatt?
As a McDonald's spokeswoman pointed out in one press report, many Hong Kong couples met or had their first dates at McDonald's, which "makes it particularly meaningful and memorable to hold a wedding party there."
And at a cost of the equivalent of just a few hundred U.S. dollars, it sure beats the price tag for most conventional weddings.
How's that for a value meal?
