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

[so_dark_a_road]

"I agree." Curufin takes the last sip of his drink as well. "As far as I can tell, most people feel their lives were interrupted and they want to get back. Yes, I'd feel the same if I had been snatched onto the train before the war of the Elves and Morgoth. I had a life I liked and was excited about. I can guess that you did, before your war."

He looks around to see where there is more booze.

"Want to go and get refills?" he asks.

[luckybucky]

Bucky hums in agreement. "Yeah, everything changes when you take a life for the first time, even if it's during the heat of battle," he agrees with a weak smile and nods his head. "A refill sounds great." And like an easy way to change the subject to something a little lighter. "Tony said something about the alcohol you guys make, that it'd maybe be strong enough to affect me."

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin's smile softens. "Yes, that does change everything. It makes you a different person, taking a life. You're never the same again."

And he, too, reaches for a lighter topic. "I think Tony was given one of our recipes, though I think it was one of the brewery products like beer or ale. It does have strange properties, though not everybody is affected by it." His grin gets broader. "Luckily, it's not my East Beleriand moonshine recipe. That might send you reeling with hallucinations. Unless you have some sort of immunity."

[luckybucky]

Bucky nods in agreement, grinning along with Curufin. "It's not an immunity, I just have a fast metabolism so human alcohol burns off before it can get me drunk, but I'd certainly be interested in trying something new if you think it might work on me."

[so_dark_a_road]

"Well then, let's go try the Elvish ale and see what happens?" He smiles and point in the direction of the drinks table.

[luckybucky]

"Oh, I didn't know there was any," he replies brightly, heading in the direction Curufin pointed. "Seems like a pretty good time to try it." He grins.

[so_dark_a_road]

"The party planners thought of it, and they must have asked Tony to provide it. So, yes! There is some." Curufn follows Bucky and they come to the table. He picks up a pitcher and pours out two glasses and hands one to Bucky. "Cheers!" he says, lifting his glass with a grin.

[luckybucky]

Bucky accepts the glass and raises it in salute, grinning a little before taking a long sip. It probably would've been unwise, if he weren't sure his metabolism could handle it. He hummed in pleasant surprise at the flavor, smiling a little at Curufin. "I suppose now we'll just have to wait and see."

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin takes a sip from his own glass, savoring the flavor.

If this Elvish ale has any odd effect on Bucky at all, which Curufin can't be sure of, it would probably be in the area of perception. Bucky might start to see the world as an Elf does, that is, in great detail and with intense colors and extremely rich textures. The red and gold decorations here in the gym car would seem to pop in a positively hallucinatory fashion. But not all mortals are affected that way.

"Yes, we'll have to wait and see." He grins.

[luckybucky]

Bucky's metabolism is fast, enough that most things designed for humans either don't work at all, or wear off within minutes. It seems that's the same with the alcohol, because for a moment or two everything looks much more beautiful, and he takes that time to admire them.

When it fades, he snorts softly, smiling a little and shaking his head. "Well, I'll be damned. It actually worked for a couple of minutes," he flashed a little grin and took another sip. "If I drank enough of this I might be able to get drunk and stay that way for a half hour or so."

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin grins back. "I'm pleased to hear that it worked, even if only for moments. Have some more! It looks like there's plenty on the table. Better a half-hour of drunkenness than no drunkenness at all!"

He lifts his own glass in a second toast. "Almien! That's Elvish for Live well!