Start of the Wedding Season

Sung Ho and Ji Hyun's wedding is the first of four that I've been invited to over the next three months. Saejin and I took the eleven pm bus to Sung Ho's hometown on Friday where Sung Ho's father (as is Korean custom and because of Seajin's constant reminders of this) had rented us a hotel room for the night. The wedding started at two but we went early to catch the lunch buffet before the good food was taken. Above is Sung Ho and his family. The bride was locked away in a small room where she sat for more than an hour with people flowing in to have their picture taken with her.


Sung Ho and the women he is giving up. Along with his sister are two of his best girlfriends. Ji Young had to leave before the wedding stared because Koreans believe that because she has set her wedding date (next month) if she were to attend the ceremony all her wedding luck would go to Sung Ho. Ji Young refuses to believe this but all afternoon ladies came running up to her wide eyed wondering what she was thinking.


My only picture from inside the church. It was a formal Catholic wedding with lots of standing, sitting, and offerings of god. Disappointingly there was no kiss to seal the deal.



The wedding finished at 3:30 and we were supposed to come back by bus but Sung Ho made one of his friends drive us back. This was a huge mistake as Ji Young stuck to the bus plan leaving an hour later than us but making it back to Seoul a whole hour before us. (There is a math question in there somewhere.) Once in Seoul the drinking couldn't have started soon enough. Mr. and Mrs. Sung Ho treated us to a night a booze that I'll post tomorrow.