China's baby boomers walk up the aisle

Many industries are suffering during the recession - but some businesses do experience a boom even in a global downturn.

It's a good game to try to spot the businesses that prosper in a recession.

Shoe menders in London, apparently. Lip-stick, apparently. Discount stores and home cooked food, obviously - as restaurants flounder.

And in China the baby boomer generation is boosting the wedding business.

The government there says around ten-and-a-half-million couples tied the knot in 2008, up 10% on the year before.

As Chris Hogg reports from Shanghai, those selling all the matrimonial accoutrements from pictures to dresses expect 2009 to be another bumper season.