First of all want to thank everyone for a great site… Only been here for two months and this site has been a life saver… Hopefully soon once I get all of the ARC/visa/marriage/ etc… issues completed I will be able to participate more…
This is an odd question maybe… Like I said I have been here for two months, met my wife in the states, fully invested in three businesses here (in her name) that are very successful… Her father allowed us to get married on Monday for Visa purposes, but we have to have the official wedding on October of this year (fortune teller tradition) and unfortunately/fortunately her family is very successful here and has many contacts, the mayor (taipei) is actually going to do our wedding and we are going to have over 800 people attending.
The problem is due to her families status we can only have the best of weddings which I think she deserves, but since during the past two years we have invested all of our liquidity in the businesses, me coming, me not being able to work for 5 months by the time I get my ARC etc… Now since here in Taiwan it is up to the husband to pay for the wedding we have to come up with $50k US total/$10k deposit and since we do not have that much in reserves any longer we are in trouble… If we tell her father we cannot pay for the wedding, he will not talk to us anymore and I will be pretty much banned from the family.
Does anyone know of ways to get loans here through banks or other avenues?? Payback is no issue at all since the day of the wedding we will receive a ton of the great red envelopes and we receive our share of businesses’ profits in January…
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated, I have heard of investor groups that loan money… I know this issue might seem trivial to some, but trust me, if I dont come up with this money her family will probably never talk to her again if she stays with me… Took long enough to gain their trust being a caucasion American (even make me call them mom and dad now), and I am really starting to think that her family believes money grows on trees…
Please dont laugh too hard, but if you do I will laugh with you since I am amazed at the issues that keep popping up and I never thought something like this would cause such an issue… Guess just culture clash… I have came to realize Taiwan is full of wonderful little suprises!!
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