The Wedding

It went off well!
Hannelore and Elna went off to the four hour makeup session (as did Michael), and came back looking like this...

Hannelore and Inwan (Yohan's Mum), got things going by gliding down the catwalk (which separated the audience, the groom's contingent was on the right hand side) to the altar where they lit candles.


Michael came down the catwalk (don't know what else to call it), solo, then Yohan, looking incredibly beautiful, on her father's (Hosu) arm.

Hannelore and I sat right up the front, with Inwa and Hosu in the same position but on the other side of the catwalk. There were some attendants running the show, who were often doing things with us us, like fiddling with my buttons, and smoothing Hannelore's rig.

There was quite a long speech by the pastor, in Korean, and also English which was appreciated by us but unexpected by the rest, then some brief vows.


During this time, young Alex, who had been wowing everyone with his immaculate wedding suit


apparently experienced a bowel explosion, which caused his parents to evacuate outside to tidy things up.

Finally we were called back to the front stage where a lot of bowing and hugging amongst the new in-laws occurred, and photos, photos, photos...


We thought it was over at that stage, but we were then called away to another room, where Michael and  Yohan dressed in the garb of Korean royalty, for another round of photos.


Just when I thought I was going to finally have a wedding without embarrassment, we were asked to pose with them in the sitting cross legged position, which Hosu had no trouble at all with, but was impossible for me. Although I told them I couldn't do it, they had me try, which caused considerable mirth (knees stick up and point to ceiling), so the Utting team had to have the photo taken standing up.
Once that was over, we went to a steak restaurant with buffet, and had a knife and fork meal for the first time since leaving home.
Little Alex was a hit here too, very well behaved and fussed over by all, including uncle Michael, and auntie Yohan.


That's it, end of trip now, back to Seoul for a couple of days, then home on the 30th.