Day 19 - Time for a Wedding

[achickenformylove]

Who: Lan WangJi, Wei WuXian and anyone else who wants to attend!
Where: Garden carriage and then gym car
When: Day 19 of Egret
What: Wedding! Wedding reception and lots of food.
Warnings: Pretty much up in the air. But there will likely a lot of PDA's from the wedding couple during the reception... because that's how they roll

Finally, it was Day 19, the day that WangJi and WuXian had chosen for their wedding.

Ceremony
Inside the garden, everything had been decorated in red and gold, traditional colors for a wedding in China. There were flowers and a low table set up.

As the ceremony begins, Lan WangJi and Wei WuXian enter with Lan Sizhui and Wen Qing as their attendants. The wedding clothes for WangJi and WuXian are also red, with designs of forest animals in the designs sewn in, including frogs and rabbits. All of this was courtesy of their friendly neighborhood spider. WuXian was also wearing a red veil over his hair and face. Even WangJi’s ever-present forehead ribbon was red today instead of white.

As the pair approached the table, WuXian on one side and WangJi on the other, they alternated bowing to each other three times before kneeling. With the help of their attendants, they each drank a cup of tea, which they used their long sleeves as though hiding that they were doing so behind them. Once they had put the cups down, WangJi reached up, pushing the veil back so that he could see WuXian’s face before removing the forehead ribbon he’d been wearing. Taking WuXian’s hand, he used to make kind of a loose knot between their two wrists, a Gusu Lan symbol that WuXian was his fated partner. Then as they carefully stood, WangJi leaned in to kiss WuXian before they both bowed to their attendants, thanks for assisting them and being there for them.

Reception
Following the wedding ceremony itself, the party then moved to the gym car, where the reception and feast were being held. Like the decorations for the wedding, it was also a lot of red and gold. To those who didn’t know beforehand, it would likely be obvious that red and gold here very important.

Lots of food cooked by wonderful volunteers from the train. Of course, there had to be dessert, which was the cake baked by the couple’s son, Lan Sizhui.

As the wedding couple, they were rather happily seated together of course. WangJi had since replaced the forehead ribbon on his head, but there was a high likelihood that sometime during the party WuXian was going to end up wearing it around his wrist.

[ooc: Mingle post! Feel free to make your own top levels and tag around and have fun. Also, in the picture, ignore the hat for WangJi’s robes. He’s not wearing a hat]

Comments

[springforth]

It's for the best that her attention is pulled away. The napkin in her hand is looking worse for wear. She starts, twisting to look at Madoka in a little flurry of flower petals. At least they don't stand out among everything else.

"Lovely to see you here, you look so cute!" Persephone smiles, soft and warm, attentive to her question. Her gaze shifts back to the couple, then she bobs her head in a 'this or that' motion. "Oh, I'm just wondering about...cultural things. I feel like I should be doing something but it's not really my place."

[happyends]

A blush instantly appears on the girl's face when she's called cute, although - thankfully? - there's no real time to get flustered about it when Persephone does at least explain what she was looking so fussy over. Trying to help out others with their problems takes priority here!

"Cultural things..?" She repeats, humming like she's thinking about it. It's not like she knows anything about the place the other is from, except that people can apparently make flowers grow, so Madoka can't make a real guess as to what cultural problem is happening here right now.

".. well.. that does sound difficult." She often struggles with similar things, after all. "But.. even though I'm not sure what you're thinking about, as long as it's a nice thing to do, I don't think it could be bad to do it even if you feel like it's not your place, you know..?"

[springforth]

Persephone hid a smile, both at the blush for her compliment and the very honest advice. If only it was always that simple. She's found the politics of things is so very rarely simple. Good intentions don't always come across the way you hope.

"Well it's the kind thing to do. I'm just not sure I can do it. Or if I should. This is the first wedding I've been to." How to explain...

[happyends]

"It's the first wedding I've been to too," Madoka offers, although she's unsure of how much it'll help when she doesn't know what Persephone's specific problem is. At least it might make her feel less awkward or weird since she's not the only one who's experiencing it for the first time..?

"Um, and I've only spoken a little to one of the people marrying before, but he seemed really nice. I don't think he seems like the type of person who minds a lot of things.."

[springforth]

It's not much of a help but that's no fault of Madoka. She just doesn't have the proper information.

"I'm sure he's not. They did invite the whole train to their wedding party and are quite gracious. It's nothing that they would do. I just worry about back home." She twists the napkin idly.

"You know how I--make flowers and grow things. Well there's someone in my world whose powers include blessing marriages and families. She should be doing it but she's not here to. And they deserve to have it blessed. So you see my problem."

[happyends]

The girl's face immediately changes to one of surprised understanding. Sure, Madoka doesn't live in a world where people have powers like that, but she has enough imagination and empathy to be able to put herself into Persephone's shoes when it comes to that all the same. So after the surprise slightly wanes once a moment passes, she nods.

"I can see it. You wouldn't want to step on any toes then.." Since it's technically not Persephone's place, exactly like she said. "But you'd probably also feel like it's rude if they didn't get that blessing at all.. Something like that would be the problem then, right?"