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Yao Ming slam-dunks singledom
By Zheng Lifei (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-08-07 06:50
SHANGHAI: China's NBA star center Yao Ming tied the knot with his
long-term girlfriend Ye Li in a low-key wedding ceremony yesterday.
A private wedding banquet for the couple of eight years was held in the
city's five-star Shangri-La Hotel.
The evening was shrouded in secrecy until dozens of foreign and domestic
media camped outside the glitzy hotel for a glance at the happy couple.
In what was a relatively small affair for a star of gigantic proportions,
a limited number of guests of family and friends were invited to dine at
eight exclusive tables for the wedding banquet on the third floor of the
hotel.
A custom-designed heart-shaped logo, with two "Y"s printed in the middle,
was hung from a white curtain in the front of two banquet halls, joined
and decorated in a traditional manner.
Yao booked the most expensive meal set priced at 12,399 yuan (US$1,640)
per table, according to a hotel source, close to the wedding reception.
The lavish menu included sea cucumber, sea-ear and fresh red garoupa.
Both are incredibly tall. Yao, at 2.26 meters tall towers over his new
bride, also a player in the national woman's basketball team, at 1.9
meters tall.
Yao, 27, and his wife, 25, are both from Shanghai.
The Houston Rockets' All-Star center reportedly met his sweetheart in
1999 when he was playing for the Shanghai Sharks, a local basketball team.
Their relationship, however, was only made public at the 2004 Athens
Olympics where they were seen walking hand-in-hand at the closing
ceremony of the games.
The couple signed their marriage certificate on Friday night in Xuhui
District Marriage Registration Office, where officials worked late until
8 pm that day for the couple's convenience.
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