This Day, That Year

Item from Dec 31, 1990, in China Daily: The big day ... A couple have their wedding photos taken in the Xianbai Photographic Art Studio in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province.

Spending anything between 100 yuan and 1,000 yuan on a set of wedding photos is becoming more and more fashionable in this South China city.

The country's wedding industry was estimated to be worth up to 800 billion yuan ($123 billion) last year, fueled by the rising budgets of Chinese couples, according to figures from the Ministry of Civil Affairs.