This past weekend we were very excited to be able to join a friend and go down to her husbands village for her brother in laws wedding. It was the first village wedding, or minority wedding, we have experienced in China and overall it was a lot of fun to take it all in. We were able to use our language that our friend taught us and communicate with people there (who don't speak Chinese) and that was great too. We have a million pictures to share so I will break up into a three posts.
Pink and Red are the colors for all weddings. The days before the wedding feast all of the time was consumed with preparing food. They made these pink sticky rice things stuffed with sugar to deliver to the girls parents as a gift.
We got to have some play time at the river.
We helped stuff these tou fu triangles with a mixture of cut up pig intestine, onions and eggs. They were then deep fried, and days later added to the soup. They were one of the things Sean and I likes best (food wise)
Preparing the house (the groom and bride will live with the grooms parents) by hanging red strips of paper over all windows and doors that have words of blessings on them
Groom's mom preparing the gift for brides family. It was interesting all gifts had this little strip of red paper glued to them (glue was old rice water).
Caed near all the cut up tou fu
After the toufu triangles have been fried
they butchered a whole pig so there was lots of meat everywhere (and in turn cats, chickens and dogs trying to eat the meat)
When guests came they were served the meal, women sat upstairs around this fire pit and men downstairs around another. Everything was cooked and eaten over wood burning fire
This is on the roof, in the background is the shack where the woman ate
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