Saying ‘I do’ on Mid-Autumn Festival day


Special big day: The gathering of 48 couples who exchanged kisses and loving moments during the mass wedding registration at the Penang Chinese Town Hall. — CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: It took nine years before project manager Tan Boon Kuan finally got his sweetheart to agree to marry him, and his perseverance saw its culmination on the day the Chinese community welcomes the Mid-Autumn Festival celebration.

Tan, 25, said he did not give up and waited for the right time to pop the question to designer Ooi Jia Ying, 27.

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