Wedding

The principal of Keumho invited us to his youngest daughter's wedding. It was a more or less a typical Korean wedding and held in a wedding hall. We arrived at a multistory building and were greeted by the bride's parents in the foyer. We then went to a card table where we handed over a gift of money to a person sitting there who took our names. We were then conducted to the room in which the ceremony was to be held. This was a catholic wedding and the service was conducted by a priest. It was his first wedding and he had to be reminded to take the vows. A couple of times another person stood up and gave some sort of prayer or sermon delivered in a hellfire and damnation sort of way. All the time people were rushing up to the alter and whispering in the groom's ear or adjusting the bride's dress.




These two were a guard of honour provided by the wedding hall and were dressed like the Andrew Sisters apart from the raised hems. Colin keeps going on about the Cargo Cultists and here is perhaps an example, it certainly immediately took me back to the 1950s.
The bride looked very beautiful and they both looked happy. Here they are watching and listening to a cute pair of seven year olds sing for them, while the dry ice flows. The whole ceremony took about 30 minutes. We then went for the breakfast which was a large restaurant with a smorgasboard shared by all those who used the wedding hall. At the time we were there there were about 4 weddings going on.