What more do I need?

[Willy The Londoner]

What more do I need?  That is the heading to this thread - well I can give one answer - I need a lot of luck and bucketful of patience!  It appears that after spending  the weekend in Hengyang then that was not the place where the marriage was supposed to take place.  So as dawn breaks we are off to a place that is described to me as being named 'Heng County South', this is my fiancees home town and it is where she wants to marry.  Only after have had one hell of a journey for about hour or so we then find it was the place she had WANTED to marry.  The office in this town does not do marriages where a foreigner is involved!!!

(Not sure what the locals had got up to at the weekend but there was about 100 couples trying to register a marriage in this little town. )

We were told that we had to return to Hengyang.  Thankfully this time the driver treated the road with a bit more respect.  However having arrived back in Hengyang we then found that we would have to go to Changsha as that is the nearest place that register marriages involving foreigners!  

But whilst still in Hengyang they checked my fiances papers and it was discovered that there was a fault in her Household Register book that meant it was were still showing her as still married!  So now she has gone of on a two hour each way bus ride with her 20 year old son to the Public Security Bureau in another town to get that changed and if they do it today then MAYBE and I say MAYBE we may get to Chagsha tomorrow to register the marriage.

They said that a bus fare is 6 yuan each way for each person because she refused to pay the 100 yuan for a taxi.   I told her then if she wanted to save such a little money on such a special occasion then she could save even more as I was not going.   So off they have gone and when they return in four or five hours I really do not expect to be going to Changsha tomorrow and could well be heading back to Zhongshan instead and still single.  

Well I got at least another 4 hours before they get back  so how can I spend it here  - so maybe over to KFC for a coffee ?  At least in Zhongshan I knew where to go for a massage!!!

Only consolation is if we do eventually get to Changsha at least we can travel back to Guangzhou by the high speed train.

Oh well every cloud has a silver lining.  

Willy

[maxx]

Willy sorry to hear about all the trouble.I'm sure you can get this all worked out.It may take a couple of days.But it will work itself out.Good luck.

Maxx

[ttwjr32]

spoke with willy and it looks like wednesday
he will be a married man (poor guy):icon_cheesygrin:
just joking

[RegnisTheGreat]

So off they have gone and when they return in four or five hours I really do not expect to be going to Changsha tomorrow and could well be heading back to Zhongshan instead and still single.

Start buying viagra stocks now. Willy may be single again and back on the prowl.

[Martin]

WOW Willy...that is an interesting turn of events!  Have a good trip to Changsha.  How many of us brothers have gotten married in Changsha now?

[ttwjr32]

havent heard from Willy today maybe he rented an ox and wagon
and is still on his way.

should be married by tommorrow

[Danny]

Willy

I'm sorry to hear about all this messing about. There is nothing like dealing with a bureaucrats for driving you crackers. I am sure it is just a matter of time. Enjoy yourself and take it easy. You will laugh about this in a few months time, I'm sure.

Danny

[dude]

WOW Willy...that is an interesting turn of events!  Have a good trip to Changsha.  How many of us brothers have gotten married in Changsha now?

yes...Martin there are a few of us! Willy if you are here, in Changsha, and haven't picked up the red book, bring a bag of candies and pick up a few of them gold box cig's...they work great with getting you in and out of marriage place quicker! We were laughing at the poor souls that had to wait longer than us...bribes are always welcomed here!

[ttwjr32]

big-- gifts of candy do work well along with the cigs but mostly
        women in these places so candy is good  seems to speed
        things up

[Martin]

I guess I got lucky.  We showed up early, and nobody else was registering their marriage until we were pretty well done.  no bribes needed.

[Willy The Londoner]

Well at last we Bloody well done it.  Married at last - Not only did we take candy and cigarettes for the staff we also had to be generous to the police guard on the gate so that he would could get in and for him to tell us which floor to go to.

Maybe the gifts may not have been needed as we was the only ones there.  Mind you it was raining!!!  

All the papers were accepted and the only problem was that our photo was a 1/4 inch to large so we had to have then redone in the special photo room.

Back to the hotel - to get out of the rain of course!!!!!!  

Tomorrow we return to Zhongshan but as my treat we are travelling from Changsha to Guangzhou by the high speed train.  Costing about 650 rmb for the two of us but just wanted to see what it is like.

Vince cannot find the 'whose your mate' page so can you change mine to MARRIED!

Willy

[Neil]

Let me (hopefully) be the first to congratulate you on a job well done!  May you have a long and happy life together full of good friends and happiness.  

Also, let me be the first to say: Pics or it didn't happen!  Haha.  Just kidding buddy.

[Vince G]

Hold on I'm on the phone with my broker....SELL, SELL, SELL....

Well a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to you Willy.

And it's done already (Who's ur Mate)

[rockycoon]

Don't forget me Willy, congratulations on a job well done.  I guess your off the market now, so you can take all those wife wanted posters down now. :icon_cheesygrin:

Really Willy, may happiness rain down on you and agian congrat's.

[ttwjr32]

Willy its about time you did it  congrats