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

[sensitiveapple]

"Approval?" She asks, cocking her head to the side. Approval is an odd word choice in her opinion.

"Is there someone here that wouldn't approve?" She asks, cautiously. She wonders if someone would cause trouble. She certainly hoped not.

[so_dark_a_road]

Given the history of Curufin's world, and its insistence on pretending that such unions never happened, the word makes a lot of sense to him.

"I don't think anybody on this train would disapprove. But I don't know for sure what Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji experienced in their own world. I rather think that their families would not have approved, and so our welcoming of their choice to love and our celebration of their union might be a bit of an antidote to past sorrows."

[sensitiveapple]

"Really?" She asks, completely surprised by that. Not that all systems accepted same sex couples, but the majority of them did, and it was written into the New Republic laws that they were to be left alone.

"But why wouldn't their families approve?" Because they're both men? No, can't be that, that's ridiculous.

[so_dark_a_road]

"Really! Different worlds have different cultures, and not all cultures agree about intimate relationships between people of the same gender." Curufin's world was damnably stubborn about hanging onto its homophobia.

"I think their home world was highly conflicted about same-sex couples. They may have accepted such relationships provided the couple kept it private, and provided neither of them minded marrying someone of the opposite sex in order to have children and continue the family line."

[sensitiveapple]

She waves that away. "I understand the different worlds, different cultures thing. Part of training as a courtesan is to know when not to step on some of those cultural boundaries. I just find it... odd, that any place would discourage love in all its forms." She shrugs.

"At the House, we even had males and females that only catered to their own sex." So, yes, it's odd to her that someone would have to hide it.

[so_dark_a_road]

"It is odd, isn't it?" he agrees. "All love is valuable, and no love should be rejected on the basis of sexual orientation. I have never been able to fathom why people would not understand that."

He nods. "Specialists, then. It makes sense."

He looks around at the guests, the decorations, the tables of food and drink. "I'm thirsty. Shall we go and get a couple of glasses of wine?"

[sensitiveapple]

"Oh! no thank you. I shouldn't drink. It clouds the mind, and a courtesan needs her wits." She says, with a smile.

Not that Freema or Jocko would let her drink. Not at thirteen. They do have some standards!