Ming Xi posted a photo of herself with Olympic skier Eileen Gu and drew a short, pointed compliment — "The most beautiful bride" — beneath images of a wedding that the model and Mario Ho held in Deauville, France, on June 1.
Xi shared the pictures on Weibo on June 2 with the caption, "Our anniversary + 1," and the posts included candid moments: the couple appearing to tear up while exchanging vows, a photo of them kissing, and family scenes that made the day feel like a private milestone opened to public view. The posts followed an intimate welcome dinner the night before, which the couple posted to Instagram on May 31.
The numbers underline the occasion: Xi is 37 and Ho is 31; their six-year-old son served as page boy and their four-year-old daughter as flower girl. The ceremony came seven years after the couple registered their marriage — a gap that drew notice as much as the images themselves.
Guests and family framed the day. Xi wore a light blue dress at the reception; Ho photographed a moment with his mother, Angela Leong. Hong Kong media identified pop star Jackson Wang among the attendants, reporting that he acted as a groomsman. Xi also posted a picture with Gu, who left the short, unmistakable compliment beneath the bride's image.
That setup — legal marriage years earlier, then a delayed public ceremony — is not unusual in high-profile families whose private and public lives run on different timetables. In this case the timeline is concrete: Ho proposed in Shanghai in May 2019 with 99,999 roses; the couple registered their marriage about two months later; Xi gave birth to their son in October 2019 and to a daughter in November 2021. The family weathered other milestones in between, including the death in May 2020 of the late Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho at 98.
The friction in the story is simple and human. The ceremony held on June 1 was plainly a wedding in form — vows exchanged, children in ceremonial roles, guests gathered — yet it was not the start of a legal union. The couple registered their marriage shortly after the 2019 proposal, making the Deauville event a public celebration rather than the act of marriage itself.
Those details matter because they change how the day reads: less a legal rite than a family moment staged with intention. The presence of young children as page boy and flower girl, the pre-wedding dinner, and the selective sharing on social platforms point to a couple who chose to mark a private chronology with a formal ceremony when the time felt right to them and their families.
Xi and Ho did not offer an explanation for the seven-year interval in the posts; no future public events were announced. What the images and guest list made clear is the function of the Deauville ceremony — a family-centered declaration of their life together, shared with friends and a wider audience at a moment they picked to open to the public.
For readers asking what comes next: the couple has so far confined new public commentary to social media and photographs. If the wedding in Deauville was meant to finalize a private timeline into a public one, then the next move is likely private — family life with two young children — punctuated only occasionally by selective public snapshots, as happened on June 2.
