L-O-V-E

Two in love can make it, take my heart and please don't break it

For the first time in a very long time, my family had a wedding dinner to attend (but it was very different from all those we used to go to years ago when everyone went and all us children went mad, though, almost as always, none of us really know very well the person getting married). The first real wedding dinner for me after growing up more. The bride was my grandmother's dead adopted brother's daughter. Hey i just realised it's her neice! Didn't think much on that day. No wonder she got to sit at the 'special table' (not that special after all, since the bride wasn't there, leaving all her favourite people to face each other with a sense of delirium and odd emptiness, at least that is what i imagine it might feel). The only children who went were me, sai sai, nat and baby, all the girls. Baby (elysia) wanted to run here and there so we went to the stage and she saw the 5-levelled cake and the champagne-glass pyramid and the red carpet and she kept dancing on stage alone to my grandmother's exclamations of 'xia lai! bu yao zuang dao dong xi! xia lai!' and she was enthralled by the bride and groom walking in and in the end all of us ran around the lovely empty carpetted hall outside. There were just so many ROSES! The Every table had a rose arrangement in the middle initially, with rose petals littered all around the circular chinese-table-rolley-thing. The tables and chairs were black so the colour scheme was very...modern rather than white and pearl and lovely and rich. They had an animation video of how the bride and groom met, and halfway through the dinner the groom sang L-O-V-E to the bride (nat covered her ears and grimaced while papa closed his eyes and nodded his head. think he was drunk) as it was their song. What really got me was how, when we just arrived and i first saw the bride, she was so HAPPY and just glowing and when she saw that one of her close relatives had come after all she embraced her and jumped a little and exclaimed- she was just so happy that this person came, and so wonderfully happy that she was getting married. Despite how it was in many ways a traditional and somewhat restrictive chinese wedding, that was enough to make it a special one. And it isn't just her, but at weddings girls dream and married women remember. Weddings do put ladies in such a state of mind.