Gladiator Groomsmen (Photo : Facebook/Zachary Lee/SGAG)
Chinese groomsmen are notorious for causing trouble in wedding banquets even if their intention is just to have naughty fun. On March 30, actress Liu Yan, a bridesmaid at the wedding in Bali, Indonesia, of Chinese actor Bao Beier, became the subject of a viral video after she was grabbed by the groomsmen and thrown in the pool.
On May 28, eight groomsmen became viral on Facebook because they were dressed like Spartan gladiators from the movie “300.” Zachary Lee, a 25-year-old Singapore personal trainer and the groom at a wedding, asked them to show up on the morning of his wedding at the house of his bride.
Their photo, which Lee posted on Facebook, became viral because of the muscled physique of his groomsmen who are his friends. The toned bodies of his groomsmen, however, is not surprising because one of them is a personal trainer too and the other a navy officer, while others are still university students or marketing executives, and they all work out together reported Mashable.
After Lee shared the photo on the SGAG, a humor website, Facebook group on June 6, with over 1,500 shares and 3,500 likes.
Lee, a Singaporean, met his wife, Elsa Kwok, as a fellow undergraduate student at the University of Queensland in Australia where he lived for several years. As a result, Lee had difficult time dealing again with Singapore’s humid weather that explained his choice of attire for himself and his groomsmen which the personal trainer said was a fun and memorable costume, reported The Strait Times.
The group bought cloth from Spotlight to make their capes and Spartan loincloth, while they purchased their gladiator accessories such as spears and helmet from Daiso. The spears were actually affordable garden tools and the helmets cheap ones that construction workers used which they spray-pained gold.
On May 28, they met at a fitness corner in Upper Paya Lebar, changed into their $60 costume and went to the nearby house of the 25-year-old bride. The gatecrash, which ran for half an hour, had the gladiators doing challenges such as forming a human pyramid and dancing to Britney Spear’s “Toxic.”
