It was their really, really big day
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The world’s tallest man married a woman about two-thirds his height and half his age, holding a traditional Mongolian ceremony with great fanfare at the tomb of Kublai Khan in Inner Mongolia.
Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9 herdsman, met his bride this year after searching high and low, sending advertisements around the world. It turns out he didn’t have to look far. Xia Shujian, a 5-foot-6 saleswoman, hails from his hometown of Chifeng.
Bao, 56, wore a specially designed light-blue gown topped with a gold vest, and he rode to his 28-year-old bride’s camp in a cart pulled by two camels.
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