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Helen Wang and Kirk La got married on Aug. 30 in California

During the ceremony, the groom surprised the bride by reading his wedding vows aloud in her native language, Mandarin

"All my family started tearing up immediately after his first word in Chinese. No one expected that," says Wang, whose family does not speak English

A groom's wedding surprise left the bride and her family in tears.

Months before his Aug. 30 wedding ceremony at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif., Kirk La, 29, began practicing his wedding vows — not because he was trying to memorize them, but because he wanted to read them aloud to his 120 guests in the bride's native language.

Although bride Helen Wang, 28, is fluent in both English and Mandarin, her parents

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