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

[luckybucky]

Bucky grins at him like an idiot. "Well, thank you, sir," he replies lightly, touching the bill of his hat. "I haven't looked like myself in a very long time... and yeah, I've got a bit of wine," for all the good it would do him. He holds up his half-empty glass in his metal hand. He's not even self conscious about that the way he normally would be.

"You should ask for the number of their wedding planner," he teases.

[faithfulsupport]

Ignis lowered his head a little after Bucky touched his hat. It wasn't often that he'd had a chance to see such a gesture back home because most people he knew didn't wear a hat. But the bit about not looking like himself got the advisor to slightly laugh.

There was another laugh after he took another sip of his own drink. For all the polite mannerisms and a lifetime of being steeped in court etiquette there was a bossy pants stuffed inside the strategist that even the leader of the train deferred to. The young king of Lucis himself did it so Ignis was able to smoothly talk the party's way into Altissia to get past the guards.

"I'm afraid one won't be necessary in this case."

[luckybucky]

"No?" he asks warmly. "You'll at least let me help with the cooking or something, I hope? Iggy," he grins like he's discovered some kind of secret, and tries to hide it with a sip of his wine. Apparently the nickname alone was enough to make Ignis about ten times less intimidating. That or the uniform was just boosting Bucky's confidence that much.

[faithfulsupport]

"No." This came with a decisive shake of the dusty blonde head. True he hadn't been dreaming of his wedding day for a long time but there were certain ideas he had in mind that he would get Tony's input on of course. And as he was about to answer about the cooking, the advisor heard the nickname.

There was a good natured laugh and a bit of embarrassment at hearing Bucky say it. "I see you've found me out." If he ever found out who the culprit was, they were going to hear it. He had no idea the other man found him intimidating because to Ignis, he was just himself.

Nothing intimidating about him at all, unlike say.. Gladio.

[luckybucky]

Bucky grins in reply, chuckling warmly. "Well, with all your friends showing up it was only a matter of time, right? They've both been very friendly," and were equally responsible for spilling the beans, as luck would have it. He has not, apparently, picked up on Noctis being another of Ingis' friends from back home.

He'll refrain from telling Ignis that Gladio is, in fact, somehow less intimidating.