The most interesting (and, sadly, only) Chinese wedding I went to so far was a traditional Dongguan midnight bridal kidnapping. The insanity started at 10 pm when a friend called and asked if I could attend a wedding that evening.
First, all the males gathered at the groom's family home. Then we piled into cars and vans just before midnight and headed over to the bride's village. The streets were to narrow to get the vehicles up to the front door, so we parked about 6 blocks away and proceeded to walk. Just to make certain that no one was unaware of our presence, the groom's father kept setting of packs of industrial sized firecrackers.
When we got there, the outer security gate was locked. Someone went a little too far rigging the hinges, since the door came off in the groom's hands the first time he shook it. Then we proceeded upstairs to a 2nd floor balcony. The security door there was firmly attached and locked. It was also defended by a large number of girls armed with cans of softdrinks and beer - and they weren't afraid to spray those at us through a barred window and over the top of the door while shouting various threatening sounding statements in Cantonese. My side was fairly well armed with similar items, so there was quite a bit of extra laundry to do in both villages the next day. I managed to position myself on the far side of the balcony where I could see through the window (and where a particularly aggressive defender would use a broomstick on any hands that dared to grab the metal bars - I'm amazed no fingers were broken). I speak approximately 2 words of Cantonese, but did managed to use hand signals to give warnings of outbound beer/coke and to indicate when there was a good target for a drenching on the other side of the door.
Eventually, the groom managed to negotiate both a cease-fire and to get that door opened through handing over a large number of hong bao to the defenders. Then we encountered a final wooden door. He decided that kicking it off the hinges would be more effective than wasting time on further negotiations with the bridesmaids. Inside was the very lovely bride (sadly in white, not the traditional red), but there was one final problem. Somehow, her shoes had been "misplaced" and she couldn't leave without them. This resulted in a massive search by all the groom's friends while the bridesmaids watched with great amusement. The first shoe was quickly found, but the second one was no where to be found. I noticed one of the bridesmaids out looking around a dark storage closet on the balcony. I went out and loaned her my flashlight and she quickly found the hidden (far too well hidden) shoe and moved it where one of the groom's friends could quickly find it.
Once the bride had her proper footwear, we all went downstairs and were tossed out in the street while there was a short ceremony with the groom and the bride's family. Then we went back to the cars (with the groom holding an umbrella over the bride the whole way - I'm not sure if that was part of the ceremony or if some Chinese girls are worried that moonlight could be as bad for their skin as sunlight
). Then, we returned to the groom's home where another ceremony was held in the street before the bride could come in.
What's the most interesting non-Chinese wedding you've been to?