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]

Yuki might get used to these mission situations if he goes along on enough of them. Everybody starts from knowing nothing, if you go back far enough in a person's life. Curufin will certainly encourage him.

"Good, I'm glad your part of the mission worked out well. I'm always glad when things work out."

[flatteries]

"Hey, these missions always work out, don't they?"

And then Inigo literally jinxs their next one... But he says it with a grin either way, because he just likes being positive about these things. They've done well so far, all they can do is just continue to do their best, right?

"It's since all of us on the train here are the best team."

[areasontohope]

Because Curufin was here, Yuki refrained from the comment he was going to give. "They did work out." Yuki acknowledged quietly, though obviously loud enough for his companions to hear him.

Gray eyes looked at Inigo when he said the part about the team and wasn't sure exactly what to say in return. All he knew was that he had to protect the person next to him. The martial arts he knew weren't going to be enough.

So he'd keep learning.

Good place to wrap this thread?

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin smiled and nodded in response to Inigo's enthusiastic statement about the missions always working out. "They have, so far! And yes, we're all the best team."

The defense of oneself and others was a lifelong learning experience. Everyone had to keep learning. Even those who teach.