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Inside the Gala Award-receiving wedding that used theater trappings to create a grand scene By Amanda Nicklaus
a performance-based wedding that was modeled like an opera. The wedding set was constructed within an exhibition center, built eight meters high and included a 50-meter-long corridor. About 50 large trucks were used to transport all the material. The craziest part: the team only had one night and two days to complete the construction of the wedding scene. To pull this off, they coordinated with more than 20 suppliers a month in advance, relying on a staff of over 200 people to move quickly. In the style of Wei Zhang event, there were custom sculptures crafted for the occasion, consisting of both 3D sculpture technology and traditional Chinese wooden mortise and tenon architecture. The team pre-made a 1:1 computer model in
the design deepening stage, striving to be as precise as possible to serve as a reference for the construction team. The irregular devices such as dragons and phoenixes required sculptors and craftsmen to bring them to life. Finally, they used an ultra-wide screen (28 meters long and seven meters high) to project intricate imagery across the space. The team produced special effects videos of many fantasy-style scenes, including palaces in the clouds, flying dragons, phoenixes rising from a fire, large scrolls of poetry, lanterns floating in the sky, and wedding halls hung with red curtains, to name a few. There were also specific sound effects, such as the roar of a giant dragon, that produced the effect of being in a theater.
hen your client is a blogger with five million fans, and they request a
wedding that is a grand scene, “like the enthronement of an ancient emperor,” you need to get creative. Luckily, Wei Zhang is known for getting creative. She is already the recipient of the 2024 Gala Award for Total Decor and the 2022 Gala Award for Best Wedding, and this year, she took home Gala Awards for both Total Decor and Best Wedding. This grand wedding was a spectacle of traditional Chinese wedding elements, multimedia technology, and artistic ceremony in the form of a custom-written wedding poem. Combined, these elements created
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