{"id":616484,"date":"2026-09-30T15:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616484\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T15:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:40:09","slug":"mario-ho-and-ming-xi-hold-lavish-wedding-reception-in-macau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/616484\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Ho and Ming Xi hold lavish wedding reception in Macau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Entrepreneur\u00a0Mario Ho, son of the late Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho,\u00a0and\u00a0Chinese supermodel\u00a0Ming Xi\u00a0held a lavish reception on Sept 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The couple, who registered their marriage in 2019, held the reception in Macau for friends and relatives who were unable to attend their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/life\/entertainment\/mario-ho-son-of-late-macau-tycoon-stanley-ho-and-model-ming-xi-hold-wedding-in-france?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">wedding ceremony in France in early June<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Among those in attendance on Sept 28 were Ho\u2019s family members, including half-siblings Deborah, Pansy and Florinda, as well as celebrities such as Hong Kong actress-host Liza Wang, Chinese actor Huang Xiaoming, Taiwanese actress Joe Chen, Hong Kong singer-actor Leo Ku and Macau-born singer-host Maria Cordero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The reception featured an autumn oil-painting theme, with the venue decorated with thousands of flowers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Mario Ho wore a black tuxedo, while Xi, whose real name is Xi Mengyao, donned the wedding gown she had previously worn at their wedding at Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey in France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Ho, 31, joked about the height difference between himself and Xi, 37, in his speech at the reception. Xi is 1.78m tall, while Ho is said to be about 1.73m tall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cEven though I\u2019m half a head shorter than her, I still pursued Xiao Ming (Ming Xi),\u201d he said. \u201cFrom falling in love to getting married and having children, I am truly very grateful to all of you who have come to witness our wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">He expressed his gratitude to his wife for her companionship and support, and promised her parents to love and protect her forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Ho and Xi have a six-year-old son and four-year-old daughter. He is the youngest son of Stanley Ho, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/east-asia\/macau-gambling-king-stanley-ho-dies-aged-98?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">died at the age of 98 in May 2020<\/a>, and\u00a0his fourth wife\u00a0Angela Leong,\u00a065.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Leong, a businesswoman and Macau legislator, also praised Xi in her speech at the reception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cMy son Mario has met such a kind and wonderful Xiao Ming,\u201d Leong said. \u201cI am truly grateful that Xiao Ming is willing to become part of our extended family and has brought us two lovely little ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Mario Ho and Xi began dating in 2017 after they took part in Chinese reality dating show Mr Left Mr Right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The couple made headlines in May 2019 when he proposed to her at a Shanghai mall decorated with 99,999 roses. They registered their marriage about two months later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Joe Chen, who took part in Chinese celebrity reality show Up Idol with Xi in 2016, shared photos and videos from the Sept 28 reception on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cTen years ago, we were filming Up Idol and one of the stops was in Tengchong, Yunnan province,\u201d Chen wrote. \u201cWe sat together chatting idly one afternoon, guessing what kind of people we would meet in the future and wondering who would walk into our lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cTen years on, we\u2019re very happy. Best wishes to my friends and may you stay happy forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Chen, 47, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/life\/entertainment\/actress-joe-chen-weds-in-langkawi-invites-actors-ming-dao-and-joseph-cheng-as-groomsmen?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">married to Malaysian artist Alan Chen<\/a>, 37, whom she met on Chinese reality dating show Meeting Mr\u00a0Right\u00a0II in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Entrepreneur\u00a0Mario Ho, son of the late Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho,\u00a0and\u00a0Chinese supermodel\u00a0Ming Xi\u00a0held a lavish reception on Sept&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-616484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}