The shortest couple, with the bridegroom standing at 1.1 meters and the bride at 0.7 meters, will tie the knot during the upcoming National Day holiday. They are also challenging the "shortest couple to get married" in Guinness World Records, New Express reported on Friday.

  Tangyong and Chen Guilan in wedding dress posing for their wedding photo in Shunde in southern China's Guangdong Province on Thursday, September 27, 2007.

Soon after the pre-marriage health check for the bridegroom Li Tangyong and bride Chen Guilan, they applied in the Guinness World Records' Guangdong office.

Li and Chen will get married in a group wedding ceremony with 30 other couples. The couple told New Express that they hoped to have the records certificate on the day of their wedding.

 
(CRI.cn September 28, 2007)