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The wedding season continued this weekend and Sunday it was Myoung Soo's turn to wed the ever cute Ji Young. It was definitely a different wedding from Sung Ho's Catholic wedding a few weeks ago. This one was held in a wedding hall (read wedding Factory). This one was a little less tacky than some I've been to (imagine bubble machines, moving carriages on tracks, neon lighting and a timer counting down the wedding in the corner)but you still could not escape the fact that the wedding fell into a time slot and was just one of four other weddings taking place that day.

The wedding hall was to the right of the the main holding area. Here the groom and bride had a table set up where you dropped off your money and got a ticket to get into the buffet area. Myoung Soo and Ji Young both work for E-Mart leaving coworkers very confused as to which table they should put the money stuffed envelopes on. Saejin and I were very early and soon got tired of waiting for Sung Ill (his wedding is January 5th) to arrive so we went into the buffet area.

I thought it was a rude idea as we would definitely miss the start of the wedding but there were huge screens set up to watch the wedding while stuffing your face. There were also a lot of the guests from the previous wedding not yet ready to go. We did eventually find an empty table and tried our best to keep up with the wedding but the food was a lot more exciting.

We caught the end of the wedding where they cut the cake and in a very non Korean sort of way, they actually kissed. Twice.

After the wedding we met up with Sung Ill (who actually missed the whole twenty minute ceremony) and his fiancee and went back into the buffet. Because Sung Ill and Myoung Soo constantly try to out cheap one another, Myoun Soo made sure Sung Ill handed over an extra thick envelope of money before he let him go into the dinning area. While we drank the free beer and more food the happy couple then changed and made rounds in their hanboks thanking the guest.

Saejin was given the task of taking care of Myoung Soo's phone during the wedding so we had to wait around until the very end. Here Myoung Soo came out wearing jeans and parka and met up with his old University crew. If you ignored his caked on make-up on you'd never know it was his wedding. They then went off to a posh hotel for the night before heading off to Bali today.