What the younger generations do these days, to not hire a wedding planner, to go at it on their own, giving their own styles to the celebrations of their own, marriage, translated…
I can’t believe it, my son and daughter-in-law’s self-planned wedding had, finally, perfectly, been done.
My son and daughter-in-law, “Hi-Hi” met back in college, they’d become, very steady in love, after they’d both earned their masters, “Hi-Hi” continued pursuing her doctorate, and, they’d not, mentioned the subjects of marriage at all. And finally, my son came home one day, “Mom, dad, we’re scheduled to be married on MM-DD.” My husband immediately inquired him about when we should all go, to ask for Hi-Hi’s hand from her parents, but my son told us that it’s no hurry, because Hi-Hi’s father teaches in Beijing, and, he was going to plan the whole thing out after her father returned. As we waited, and waited, and waited, as the date approached, both sides of the parents hadn’t even, met up yet, I’d gotten, flustered, after all, Hi-Hi is an only child, and, we have NO idea, what demands the in-laws are going, to make of us.
A couple of days that followed, my son reported to us, that they’d, decided, to plan the wedding themselves, that all we needed were, suit, and a dress, as for the location for the banquet hall? How many wedding gift baskets were needed? What foods are going to be served on the banquet? We’d, not taken part in helping them plan.
On the day of the wedding, my son only rented a limo, and asked his best friend to take the gifts to give away, then, set out, to marry his bride. I’d nagged my son, about how it wasn’t, fitting, for his future wife, that it’d, not done justice, for the professor’s daughter, marrying him, he’d said comfortably, “I’d discussed it with Hi-Hi already, we don’t need a large place, and, my in-laws are okay with it too!”
The location of the banquet was at a garden banquet hall on Hsuzhou Road, and the place was decorated perfectly, the projector screen showed the photos edited by my son, the bride and the groom came into the banquet hall, doing their ballroom routines, and, handed me and Hi-Hi’s mom a huge bouquet of flowers each, to thank us for raising them up, and, it’d, brought us both, to tears immediately.
Compared to those rich families’ weddings, or the families that had become, torn apart due to the disagreements on the dowries, my son and daughter-in-law, on the most important stage of their lives, handled their wedding plans on their own, it’d, made me, so very proud, and, I’m glad, that my son gained, a pair of understanding in-laws who’d trusted him with their daughter’s hand. From here on out, they would receive, three loves, which would make it, extra sweet for them, as a married couple.
And this would be, starting off right looked like, the families don’t really care too much about the dowries, which is usually a huge source of argument between the bride and the groom’s sides of the families, and, these two young people planned their weddings themselves, and started off their lives together, on the right foot.