Did the brides wear white?

I wonder if the bride's were able to wear white?

On December 4th 2006 in Bejing (formerly Peking) there was a story reported in Reuters Life!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061204/od_nm/china_weddings_dc

There is a coal mine in China that is attempting to claim the world's record for the largest number of weddings held at the same time underground in a coal mine.
This may get them a spot in the Guiness book of world records for most weddings held underground at the same time-
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

Chinese coal mines have made the news many times for the huge number of serious accidents and deaths in the country. When you have about 1.5 billion people I suppose that life is cheap to their communist government. They allegedly have lax safety standards, and with fatalities that occur on an almost daily basis, they need something to take people's minds off of this subject of safety.

The Datong Coal Group located in the Shanxi province held weddings for 10 miners on Saturday 300 meters or 1,000 ft under the ground in a shaft as reported by, the People's Daily on Monday.

Reuters reports "The weddings were unprecedented nationwide, even worldwide," mine manager Liu Suisheng told the newspaper. "We're going to apply to Guinness World Records."
China reportedly by far has the world's deadliest coal mining industry. It is reported that safety regulations are ignored or bypassed and that coal production is pushed beyond safety limits in a mad rush for profit for the state. The coal mine weddings aim to "lessen the depressing impression" of the mining industry, Liu told the People's Daily newspaper.

One of the ten brides that was married ia quoted as saying "Marrying the man I love in his workplace is really meaningful to me," and another is quoted as saying "I had been considering a unique wedding, but never thought of down a mineshaft."

I am so pleased to live in America - it is not perfect, but it is certainly better than many of the alternatives. Chaplain Bob says Thank you Lord.