achickenformylove: (wedding 2)
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]
so_dark_a_road: (flickers of light)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-04-12 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
He smiles back.

"I haven't seen a wedding exactly like this one, either. My world has different rituals and different customs, but the formality is similar. And the celebratory atmosphere is quite similar!" He chuckles. "Besides, I agree. Good food and nice company. By the way, I'm Curufin. Team Orange."
springforth: (173)

[personal profile] springforth 2020-04-13 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm Persephone, also Team Orange. Lovely to meet you, I'm still trying to get to know everyone. It's a little difficult with so many of us."

With a sweeping look at the cart, she raises her shoulders helplessly, "I don't know half the people here. Let alone the couple."
so_dark_a_road: (the softer side of armageddon)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-04-15 07:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Welcome to the team! And my apologies for not being on the platform when you arrived, or I'd have welcomed you then. Yes, it is a little hard now, with so many people on the train. It was a little easier when I first came to the Voidtrecker, fewer people."

He smiles at her. "People are friendly, though. If you go and introduce yourself, they'll probably be pleased you took the trouble." He looks around, too. "To tell the truth, I don't know the wedding couple well at all. I've spoken to WuXian once, before today. And never at all to Lan WangJi until just a little while ago. But I can still celebrate their happiness."
springforth: (pic#13529952)

[personal profile] springforth 2020-04-19 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
She waves off his apologies with a smile, clasping her hands in front of her. It's always best to be attentive.

"Have you been here long? I've met Madoka, she says she's been here four months. It seems like that's so long, I was barely settled into the place I was before and now I'm here." She bites her lip, holding back a wave of loneliness, before she gestures to the couple, "They're a lovely couple. Is this the first wedding on the train?"
so_dark_a_road: (among the contending princes)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-04-23 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Curufin knows well the language of gestures, the clasped hands indicating interest and attention. He's flattered.

"I've been here about seven months, that is, if we're considering earthly months. The train's months are about twice as long. And they have entertaining names." He smiles. "I've met Madoka; she's really nice. Where were you before you came to the Voidtrecker? What is your world like?"

He glances in the direction she is looking. "They certainly are a lovely couple! Yes, this is the first wedding on the train, or at least the first I know of. Wouldn't it be nice to have more of them? Wedding parties are the best!"