Wedding Ceremony

I attened a friend of mine's wedding in Seoul. About two weeks ago, she IMed me out of nowhere and informed me that she is getting married. Well, I have known her for about a decade and was a bit suprised to hear the word because it has been a while since we talked last time. She is a part of this circle of high school alumni which consits of a dozen people from my alma mater. We got to know each other back in 1996ish and since then we have been good friends with one another although we have not had formal/informal gatherings recently.

The wedding itself is geared toward Christianinty. I suppose the couple is Christian and thus a father officiated the newly wed, not to mention intermittent praying in the middle of the wedding. The food (salmon, steak, icecream and whatnot) was great. The couple is going to Moldive for the honeymoon.

The Korean wedding is discursive and disorganized because there are too many people. When a wedding occurs, the couple normally invites every possible person that they know of. RSVP does not have to be sent back to the couple and thus it is hard to estimate how my people will be at the wedding and how much food should be prepared. If you were to be invited to the wedding, you would think that you just go there, give the couple some money, eat and just leave the place.

But, then again, Korean wedding is also a good venue for relatives or friends to 'accidently" run into each other and catch up. Since too many people are invited to the wedding, you never know whom you are going to bump into at the wedding. Just like today, I did not expect to see some friends of mine at the wedding. Of course, I was glad to talk to them and exchanges some business cards or whatnot. Well, I have been incommunicado for a while..

Publicly, I have been proclaiming that I will invite a small number of people to my wedding if there will be one. My friends, people who would really come out and congratulate the holy matrimony. People who would know what I have been through my entire life and thus celebrate my having a watershed in life. I don't surely want to impose on people to come to my wedding by just massively printing out and giving out impersonal invitation. But I guess it partly depends on what my folks want and vastly is up to my soul mate:)