These clips are from a Valentine’s Day wedding ceremony that took place in a village neighboring the city of Handan in Hebei province, China. The groom is an electronics repairman and the bride sells mobile phones. They both work in the city but they are from the countryside. The ceremony begins in the morning at the bride’s home, where the groom and his uncle sit down with the bride’s father and uncle and share a chat about the responsibilities of being a man of the house. The bride’s sister then smears an oily paste on the groom’s face called “yuan fen,” which rhymes with a word meaning “fortune” and thus is meant to bring luck to the newlyweds. The groom then enters the bride’s room, where he slips a pair of red gloves on her hands and red slippers on her feet before carrying her out into the courtyard and taking a family photo, with the bride’s parents in the foreground. Everybody then meets at the groom’s village for lunch, and then after the meal the groom’s father hosts a “gift ceremony” where all the gifts are opened, counted, and attributed to the givers by name. This public spectacle provides an incentive to being generous and a serious disincentive to being miserly.