In Dali, another popular Yunnan destination, businesses have developed over 30 wedding settings, including lakeside lawns and traditional Bai ethnic courtyards, drawing on the area's Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake.

　　Wang Yu, a groom from Hebei Province in north China, and his wife held their ceremony in the morning and took wedding photos near Erhai Lake in the afternoon, while relatives and friends visited nearby attractions. "There were no complicated formalities, and we could combine getting married with traveling. It has been a great experience."

　　A staff member provides marriage counseling service for a new couple at a local civil affairs department in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province on Feb. 14, 2026. (Xinhua/He Leijing)

　　IMPROVED PUBLIC SERVICES

　　While simplifying registration procedures, local governments are also improving services for newlyweds.

　　In Haidian District of Beijing, for example, its maternal and child health care hospital has set up a premarital health center inside the district's marriage registration office. Newlyweds can complete a premarital health check and marriage registration in the same building and on the same day.

　　In Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, a team from the local court has worked with marriage registration offices on multiple occasions during peak registration periods, giving newlyweds legal handbooks on marriage and family, Civil Code brochures, and briefings on spousal rights, joint property and family dispute resolution. This effort is part of a broader push to embed legal education into the registration process.