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: (among the contending princes)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-04-26 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, it would be absolutely rude to refuse the hospitality of the wedding couple and the cooks! [ Grin. ] I'm not that good in the kitchen either, so I can see your point.

[ That is, he won't give anybody food poisoning, but he's not a gourmet chef. ]

Well, have you managed to make the rounds of all the refreshments tables yet? Or is there one you've missed? We could go and bury our heads in cake.
draconite: (joy | i'm a villain)

[personal profile] draconite 2020-04-27 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, goodness, there's cake!

[ She looks absolutely delighted by this revelation as if it was in fact a revelation and not just an easily observable fact about the party. That cup is probably not her first drink of the evening. ]

I'd been so preoccupied with all the other food I'd completely forgotten there was cake as well!
so_dark_a_road: (#218 -- decr sat exact @@^)

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-04-29 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He points in the direction of the pastry table. ] There is indeed cake!

[ Curufin, too, has been quaffing the liquor liberally, when he isn't playing his flute for the guests. It certainly makes his music more expressive! The flute is currently in the hand that isn't holding the wine glass. ]

They certainly went all-out to provide for us and keep us drunk and happy as well as extremely well-fed. Shall we go and devastate that cake? [ Bright grin. ]
draconite: (declare | you're saying he's the zero)

[personal profile] draconite 2020-04-30 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She practically sparkles with delight at the idea. ]

Yes, let's! Oh, but–

[ Then she looks a little concerned. ]

Have the grooms had their fill? What a terrible tragedy it would be to be kicked out for devouring the cake...
so_dark_a_road: (#276 -- @^)

Good place to end?

[personal profile] so_dark_a_road 2020-05-08 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He laughs at the thought of being kicked out of a wedding reception for hogging the cake. ]

In that case, we'll restrain ourselves and leave plenty for them. Besides, there are other baked goods on the tables, so we aren't limited. Let's go!