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[disasterstraight]

[ Some may remember this face from his last video, wherein he nearly set his apartment's kitchen on fire by placing a can of soup in the microwave. Thankfully he is appearing much more put together now, with nary a smoke alarm or open flame in sight. He's seated at a bus stop outside from a stodgy looking brick building. The sign on the front reads Florida Department of Motor Vehicles. ]

Good day to you, imPorts. My name is Jin Zixuan, of the Lanling Jin Sect.

[ He doesn't bow to the camera, because that would look ridiculous, frankly, but he does incline his head in a nod. ]

I have the great fortune to be planning a wedding to my betrothed. I plan on making this wedding as perfect as I can manage, but... Being in this world rather than my own opens my planning up to new possibilities. And so I ask you, what wedding traditions does your own culture have? I plan to hold a wedding which honors the traditions of my home, but it would be a missed opportunity not to incorporate some imPort traditions as well. What would a wedding in this world be, if it were not a combination of traditions from all our various homes?

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[harvesthoney]

Oh, that sounds beautiful.   I was at a wedding once in Toronto where the bride wore a red lehenga.  She looked stunning. And good luck is important.

[She says it with a bright smile.  Good memories of good friends.  Especially Hank and Brent who unintentionally made her believe in luck.

Her smile falters for a moment, wondering if he knows what a garter is.] 

Weddings back home often had a bouquet toss.   The single women at the wedding stand behind the bride.  The bride throws the bouquet over her shoulder and whoever catches it is said to be the next gal to get married.   A garter toss is similar, except the groom throws the bride's garter to the single men.

[disasterstraight]

[ Yeah, he definitely doesn't know what a garter is. ]

I see, so it is some sort of fortune telling ritual?

[ If the purpose of the toss is to predict who will be the next to get married. Such a thing seems preposterous to him, coming from a world where many marriages, including his own, are arranged or otherwise made for political reasons. ]

[harvesthoney]

Sort of.  Most people don't take it seriously.  But some women actually fight over the bouquet.  When I was planning my wedding, I was thinking of giving the bouquet to a special woman in my life, my aunt Ruby, instead of just throwing it. 

[She pauses for a moment, having made herself a bit sad by thinking of Ruby.] 

That's the thing about weddings.  Back home, there were a lot of traditions.  You could keep the ones you like, skip the ones you didn't like and try new things.

[disasterstraight]

[ It's clear that this woman Ruby means a lot to her, so Zixuan is patient and lets her have her moment. ]

Yes, that is I think what we intend to do here. Any wedding we have back home would be strictly regimented, with set traditions that we must observe. There is much more freedom here to do what we want.