Ming Xi Marries at Mont Saint Michel Abbey in First Wedding
ming xi and Mario Ho married on June 1, 2026, at Mont Saint Michel Abbey in Normandy, France, making it the first wedding ever held at the site. The ceremony turned a protected landmark into a one-time venue, with a year of approvals and coordination behind it.
Mont Saint Michel Abbey
Ming Xi said, "It was the first time that a wedding had taken place at Mont Saint Michel’s abbey," and added that the planning took "a whole year." She said the process involved support from Mont Saint Michel staff and Centre des Monuments Nationaux, while the couple worked with Wedding Company Hong Kong by Michele Li on the wedding weekend.
The rare venue choice is the story’s real hinge. This was not a routine luxury wedding reset at a scenic destination; it required access, permissions, and preservation-minded coordination before a single guest arrived. For readers tracking how high-profile events are staged at heritage sites, the useful detail is simple: the location itself was part of the production.
Dior, Chanel, and 52 Carats
Before the ceremony, Ming Xi visited Dior and Chanel couture houses and said, "I absolutely love Jonathan Anderson’s new look for Dior." A floral dress inspired by the ceramic works of Magdalene Odundo was transformed into an open-back gown with wild silk charmeuse, Dior’s delicate buttons at the cuffs and back, and piano wire inside the open back to create structure.
She completed the look with a round diamond Graff necklace composed of 52 carats of brilliant-cut diamonds, matching round brilliant-cut Graff diamond studs, and a bow at the waist. For dinner later that evening, she changed into a vintage haute couture pearl dress from Chanel’s 1989 archive.
From Shanghai to Vows
The wedding followed a timeline that began in 2017, when Ming Xi and Ho met in Shanghai during his sister’s birthday celebration. They got engaged in 2019, after Ho threw a surprise event at his family’s mall, L’Avenue Shanghai, transforming it into a real-life Super Mario world and singing to her on stage with a guitar.
At the abbey, the couple exchanged vows in tears, and their son and daughter served as flower kids. Ming Xi said she was "incredibly moved" before the ceremony and that she and Ho had already been together for nine years when they married. The emotional note sits alongside the logistics: a wedding that demanded a year of approvals, then delivered a first that no other couple had managed there before.
Guests moved from the cloister at Mont Saint-Michel to a cocktail reception, then returned by car to Deauville for the dinner reception later that evening. The event now reads like a template for how a heritage venue can host a private celebration without losing control of the site, and that is the part worth watching if more couples try the same route.
