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Lan WangJi / Lan Zhan ([personal profile] achickenformylove) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress2020-04-06 09:29 am

Day 19 - Time for a Wedding

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]
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[personal profile] internetsexsymbol 2020-04-11 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
Reigen perks up seeing his friend, giving a light wave as he sits down.

"Hey! Looking good, Curufin." He says with a smile. Reigen means it too, you look sharp buddy! "Yeah, it's pretty nice...I don't get to go to weddings that often. Far as I know, most of them aren't on space trains."
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[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-04-12 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Curufin grins at the compliment. "Thanks! So are you, by the way." Weddings do tend to bring out the sharpness in a person's presentation, regardless of what they're wearing.

"Say, you're right. Most weddings aren't on space trains! Still, I suppose they're not common in most communities? Not in my world, anyway. And not in either of the other two worlds I lived in. Maybe it's not that easy for people to find lifetime partners?"
internetsexsymbol: (-|)

[personal profile] internetsexsymbol 2020-04-13 07:44 am (UTC)(link)
"Ha, thanks, I try." Hey, gotta look good for the occasion, right fellas?

Reigen's expression turns a little more serious at the question about how uncommon weddings are. "Yeah, a lot of times relationships don't last that long. Either you end up not being compatible, or you mess something up somehow. I guess that makes it even more special when two people can exist without distorting each other?" That got...a little cynical, but he doesn't quite seem to notice yet.
so_dark_a_road: (these are my brass knuckles)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-04-15 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
That's right, fellas!

Curufin won't worry about whether Reigen was being cynical when he spoke of the nature of relationships. "Yes, I've noticed that, too. Most relationships don't last. I think it's hard for two human beings to stay together once they've had a chance to get to know each other. Any species of human being, mortals, Elves, whatever. It's so easy to mess things up. So, yes, I agree -- it's very special when two people still want to be together and really understand what it takes to accomplish that. They can give each other the freedom to be themselves, and each still loves the other."