I know it is slightly off topic... but while talking about Asian weddings I thought I would share an anecdote from experience in Japan when I was 19yo or so..... so this is in the late 90s, at the peak of the Japanese economic rise. I think the Yen had just hit parity with the USD and the world was imploding.
Anyway, the Japanese were super rich and I think they were the genesis of crazy rich asian anything (weddings included). I worked in a 5-star hotel - one of the best - and big business for hotels are weddings. HUGE business.
This hotel had a special wedding "set" - like a movie set - fake christian chapel, looked like something from Beauty and the Beast... all old worldly and vine covered etc. Anyway, on a weekend they would pump 5 or 6 weddings through the chapel. One wedding would end, the guests move on to a banquet room, the chapel got "re-set"; confetti cleaned up, balloons re-set into the ceiling - literally like a movie set re-setting for another take. Anyway, as hilarious as all that was, the most funny thing was the "rental" crowd. I kid you not.
There were a variety of wedding "packages" and the deluxe ones included a number of fake guests who were always foreigners. To make the wedding look "international" I suppose. So they would choose from a menu of "characters", e.g. A Jacki Onassis type lady, who would stand there regally, and dab a tearful eye.... or a young couple wearing sunglasses who could possibly be movie stars or models.... or, an elderly man in tweed jacket holding a pipe (I kid you not) who could possibly be your professor from when you attended Harvard in the 1930s (they weren't good with getting the clothing right for the time period)....
One of strangest things I have ever seen