Haejin got married!!
I have to admit, I was doubly excited: firstly excited for her and secondly excited for me. I know! It wasn't my wedding, but I was getting to see a Korean wedding!! Cross that off my Bucket List!
Everyone had been telling me a Korean wedding was a sight to see. That it'd be a fantastic, whirlwind, fast paced, chaotic, slur of an event. And Haejin's wedding proved to be just that (7/21).
It was all those things, but yet it was a mastered science that any wedding planner would hope for and also cry about.
To the foreign onlooker it was an interpreted production of strobe lights flashing, cell phone cameras going off, as the wardrobe assistant kept running in every minute to make sure each fold of material was aligned just right, while a group of friends in the back wing had a reunion and only occasionally sneaked a few glances at the bride and groom.
But it was a beautiful event!
Haejin looked amazing!
And in the looks her groom stole of her, you could tell that he truly loved her.
Bows are made, vows are read, and in Haejin's case (which I was told was not common in Korean Weddings) the father's of both bride and groom gave speeches that reduced even the camera crew to tears! Curses for not knowing Korean!! I love a good cry at weddings! Then they sealed it all with a kiss.
And it was done.
Oh, ok well there was a little bit more in there. The bride and groom blew out the candles their mothers had lit and lit their own together and then they used a sword to cut the top tier of a wedding cake.
But that was it.
No 1 Corinthians, no exchange of rings, no bridal party. Just clean, quick and simple (minus all the fussing of the wardrobe assistant).
All the was left to do was eat!*
Congratulations Haejin and Eunho! I wish you all the best in love and life!
"So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
*While the guest ate, Haejin and her husband along with their parents performed another, private, traditional Korean wedding ceremony.
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