::A Geek in Korea::

Korean Weddings here are not new to me, but once you get married yourself, you get another perspective on everything. You begin to compare your experience with the people currently getting married. It’s not entirely fair to be competitive, because taste is subjective. While you might think that someone’s wedding dress isn’t nearly as nice as the one you ended up choosing, they might love it.

For example, We liked the food at our wedding better, even if there wasn’t any left when we got finished with the ceremony due to our cheap Aunt bringing the Ziploc bags to steal our food. On the other hand, the wedding hall today didn’t feature a pink and green heart behind the altar like ours. They had an awesome brass band, we had an excellent Opera singer. They had way, way, too much dry ice fog, but we had more light effects. We’ll call that a draw.

The wedding I attended today was fine. No major problems other than some overly noisy children before the wedding, and overly noisy adults during the wedding. Who talks, messages, chats, or just downright ignores what is happening during a wedding ceremony? People might only be in attendance out of a financial or family obligation, but you could at least pretend you are interested. If the children stopped running up and down the aisle during the ceremony, the parents should at least turn off their phones for the twenty minutes it takes for the ceremony to finish.

There was a wonderful scene at the end of the ceremony. The bride and groom were walking down the aisle, and four men with fake snow lined the exit. They were flanked by several people with party popping fireworks. The "dress handler" did something courageous and put her between the fake snow, fireworks, and the brides very flammable hair. She was protecting the very expensive rented dress as much as the bride’s fake eyelashes. I wonder how many people’s lives together began with someone needing to put out the bride’s hair?

Not only was I the only foreigner present for the wedding, I was the only foreigner in the entire wedding hall. People kept giving me a double take as I would sit down. I also was told that I was a "very handsome boyfriend" by someone that used to work with my wife. This is the third wedding I’ve been to with people that have attended my own wedding.