EEEh! Talk about good luck oo as per on the grooms side. MANY Nigerian guys would wish to be in the grooms shoes. Wealth bestowed overnight as a result of marrying a lady.
A Chinese kitchen and bathroom tile magnate has sent his daughter up the aisle with a dowry of more than one billion yuan ($156.37 million).
Wu Ruibiao, 54, included as part of his largesse four boxes of gold which were placed on his daughter's bed as well as a Porsche and a Mercedes-Benz, which were handed over draped with red ribbons.
Mr Wu's daughter, who has not been named, married her childhood sweetheart, a local government official called Xu from Jinjiang, an entrepreneurial city on China's south coast.
An eight-day public wedding banquet began last Friday.
But the generosity of the father did not end there.
A bank account has been opened with an initial deposit of 20 million yuan ($3.086 million) and five million shares in Mr Wu's company, Wanli, with an estimated value of 100 million yuan ($15.434 million), were transferred.
Added to the gifts are a list of properties, including several villas and a shop in Quanzhou city.
Mr Wu also gave 15 million yuan to two local charities, for good luck.
In recent years, the billionaire entrepreneurs of Jinjiang have competed for bragging rights over who can amass the largest dowry. According to one Hong Kong newspaper, marrying a girl from Jinjiang is "better than robbing a bank".
Mr Wu's wife also gave her blessing to the union. "He [the groom] is an outstanding young man," she said.
"And he gets his bread from the government. As parents, we certainly want our child's life to be more stable than our lives as entrepreneurs. And it was fate, too," she added.
Miss Wu and Mr Xu were classmates from nursery school until they left high school at 18.
Miss Wu then studied first at Xiamen University and then in the UK.
On the Chinese internet, the news of Mr Wu's generosity inspired a mixture of astonishment, jealousy and congratulation.
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