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

[dredefulchilde]

Joscelin runs up behind Romeo, admiring his handiwork. Romeo cleans up quite well, all things considered, especially given that he'd originally wanted to go to the wedding in something that looked like lederhosen and a sombrero. But it had taken a rather long time to convince his best friend that he looked ridiculous, and even longer to attempt tying a full Windsor knot on someone else. Eventually Joss had given up, done Romeo's tie on himself and then handed it over, and quickly dressed himself. Even with his new glasses on, he looks rather dapper.

"Sorry we're late!" he says to Misa. Then he really sees her and his cheeks go a bit pink. "You look quite nice today. Shall we?" He awkwardly offers her an elbow (she's almost a full head taller than he is), and the three of them enter the wedding party.

[sensitiveapple]

She smiles at Romeo. "You look very handsome, the both of you." She says, curtseying to the pair. She doesn't have heels on, if only out of deference for Joss being a bit shorter than her.

But she slips her delicate hand onto Joss's elbow. "I think this will be fun, don't you?" She says, as they step into the wedding. She's looking forward to seeing her handiwork and Kumoko's together.

[myblueskies]

Joss looks great as well! He was really good with clothes and even Romeo had to admit that the outfit Joss had picked for him looked better than the one Romeo had put together!

He grins at them both and copies Misa, as she seemed to know what she was doing. He linked his arm with Joss' free arm even if it was a bit clumsier than just holding hands.

"It will be lots of fun! I never been to a wedding before!"

[dredefulchilde]

Romeo is absolutely being the third wheel.

Joscelin absolutely doesn’t give a fuck.

After several torturous days of thinking his best friend was gone forever, he’s happy to have the other boy hanging off his arm, even if it is rather damaging his efforts to look dashing and debonair for a certain pretty girl.

“I don’t know what to expect,” he admits to her, leading all three of them into the garden car, “but it’s a rather pleasant change from the usual, isn’t it?”

He smiles at Romeo. “It’s been at least a hundred years for me. Vampires don’t get invited to weddings very often.”

[sensitiveapple]

Misa shakes her head. "There are a lot of different cultures. It's all a matter of which one the pair, or more, belong to." She's never been to a wedding either, but she's watched them and read about them! That counts, right?

"I've only seen holos of weddings, never been to one." She shrugs. People in her profession don't get married. That's just the way it is.

[myblueskies]

"Well they should." Was Romeo's only answer to that. Joss should get invited to all the weddings.

"What's a holo? I went to a party about a wedding once, but it was before the wedding. Not the wedding bit... They were going to get married later but then I think one of them disappeared... So they didn't." Which was sad. Hopefully that won't happen here, even if Lan Wangji had already disappeared once and came back with no memories.

[dredefulchilde]

“Vampires have a nasty habit of eating people,” Joss points out blithely. “Rather bad luck at a wedding.” He’d singlehandedly decimated an entire wedding party in the seventeenth century then staged it so that the locals would blame the Roundheads.

The Civil War had been fun.

“What’s a holo?” Joss asked Misa, exactly in time with Romeo.

[sensitiveapple]

She looks at them. Oh, these poor neglected children! They didn't have holos?!

"A holo is a moving picture? It's a three dimensional moving picture like those two dimensional ones that they have the games car." She's not sure how to explain it. She cocks her head to the side. "I think they're called movies?" Which is a ridiculous name in her opinion.

[myblueskies]

"Oh there were movies where we were before we were on the train!" Romeo grinned, "Joss took me to see a movie about super heroes! And miss Hibiki made a movie once!"

Holos were just like that. He's not sure what she means by three dimensional but she had seen movies of weddings.