After a year engagement, months of planning and overcoming the language and logistics barriers, we have finally reached Billy and Jingyi's wedding day. It's a hazy start but we can see the sun. The plan is to hang out until we need to leave about 2:30PM for the hour ride to the restaurant/wedding site. Family photos start at 4PM and the wedding is at 5:30PM. The world news this morning is talking about the I-Phone 4 glitch, the oil spill in the gulf, the first hurricane of the season in the Caribbean and the World Cub from South Africa. I will pick up a copy of the China Daily, the US speaking newspaper in China to keep for the memory of the day.
It's after 12 midnight and Billy and Jingyi are officially married. We arrived just after 3PM for photos and preparation. Watching the flowers being prepared and the activity was amazing. The wedding began at 6PM and was beautiful Jingyi was radiant and Billy looked great as you can see from the photos. Meg, Jingyi's Mom and I were in the front row and there were 3 photographers running all around. Th ceremony took about 45 minutes with the scripture, music and vows. At the end of the ceremony, Billy and Jingyi had photos taken with family and friends and then the tea ceremony was fantastic. That was the Chinese wedding ceremony inside and everyone stands around and cheers as Billy and Jingyi play out the scenes. The food was the best of the trip - an amazing array of so many options. During dinner, Billy & Jingyi walked around toasting everyone at the dinner with Maddie holding the tray of candies for people. After dinner, a dance was set up and we did our square dance. My knees will never be the same. We returned to the hotel about 12 midnight and said our goodbyes since Jim and Jill and Red and Carol leave for home tomorrow.
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What an excellent blog! Great details, keep them coming. Our thoughts are with the happy couple today. I hope it is more than they dreamed up, perfect in every way. Although I would like nothing better than to be there in person, it may be there was reason we weren't meant to go -- Jack has been feeling poor for the past several weeks, and we went to the hospital yesterday with yet another blockage. Seems that once you do surgery, the scar tissue just keeps growing and it requires ANOTHER surgery to remove it. At least we didn't wait until it was an emergency this time... Sure sucks being a grownup. Anyway, keep all the beautiful news coming on weddings and palaces and I'll respond with poop details. SEEYAAAAAAA!!!!
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