The sheer volume of weddings I have been attending has gotten to be rediculous…since yesterday I attended a wedding where neither 진희 or I knew any of the parties involved. Yes, in a way we were crashing a wedding, though technically we were invited. The wedding we visited yesterday took place at the same wedding hall we are scheduled to tie the knot at in several weeks, so the powers that be invited us to come on down, check out the ceremony, get or grub on and basically make sure everything was in order.
So 진희, her parents, her sister, and I sat in on some random people’s wedding ceremony. The ceremony was good, and then it was time to eat. We got to sample the spread that we had ordered for our own wedding ceremony: 갈비탕, 불고기, 잡채, and so on. The food was good, though slightly overpriced (as it seems to be at every wedding hall, or food supplier for a wedding). Guts full of food, we moved on to stange two of the day’s wedding preparations: 한복 (hanbok).
진희’s sister ran off somewhere, and her father headed off to work, so 진희 and I accompanied her mother to a 한복 shop to go get some clothes made for our wedding. Since we are doing 전통혼례 (a traditional wedding) we don’t need things like tuxedos or ring bears or wedding dresses, but we do need 한복…so we headed off to the shop and got measured and picked out fabric that was suitable. We paid a deposit and then it was off to round three: the photo studio.
The photo studio was decent, since all we had to do was give a deposit and reserve dates and times. Other than that the photographer explained what we would be doing, showed us different set pieces, let us pet a dog, and told us that on the the 19th of May, Wyatt Dunn would be sitting in a photo studio from 10:00 in the morning until at least 6:00 at night…fuck that’s a long time. Note to self: Locate, and make sure my Gameboy is charged up before May 19th.
All in all the entire process, despite being fairly time consuming, was relatively painless. That changed when we headed home. 진희 wanted to take the bus home instead of the subway. From the photo studio to our house the bus takes about 45 minutes to an hour…on a good day. The subway always takes an hour and a half. So we got on the bus and headed home. A meer two and a half hours later we were arriving at our homestead, throughly exhausted. Now all that’s left to do is take some pictures, pick up the 한복, and have our wedding…oh, and hand out large sums of money along the way.
Call me a grammar Nazi, but I feel compelled to point out that it is not “meer,” but rather “mere.” Look it up!
If you can swing it, I’ll make two recommendations for the wedding hall festivities:
1) Make sure the guests are supplied with alcohol. Beer and soju at the very least, and if the wedding hall can do it, a pay-your-own-way bar for those with a preference for hard stuff.
2) Put at least one disposable film camera at each table and encourage the guests to snap photos of each other. Be very clear in your instructions for the use of these cameras, as many guests may not have a clue. I would suggest that you put out a little instruction card with each camera, asking the guests to take lots of pictures, and to turn in the camera (put out a basket or whatever) when it is used up or before they leave. If you can convince the guests to use the cameras, you will hopefully end up with some nice candid shots of your guests.
Comment by Anonymous Coward — May 1, 2006 @ 2:27 am
Wow, those are some great tips, Anonymous Coward. Seriously, who’d have thought to serve alcohol at a wedding?! Brilliant! And disposable cameras!?! How do you come up with these amazing original ideas?!
(If only there were a font to use to imply sarcasm).
Comment by Ailinn — May 2, 2006 @ 1:52 am
I would love to see a ring bear….i think it would be a real treat….if you ensure that you put out the disposable cameras i will be able to capture the moment.
p.s sorry for being pedantic but a ring bear sounds either cool or very scary.
Comment by Thirsty — May 2, 2006 @ 9:42 am
Oh man…I forgot to put in the link with a picture of a ring bear! I’ll have to get on that!
Comment by Wyatt — May 2, 2006 @ 11:50 am