The Unconventional Celebration

This has been a harrowing week. With work deadlines jam packed one after another, I swear the cosmic button is at work again. While work is still meaningful (cross fingers), there is definitely more in life than work

Like the event I attended today.

Was invited to a special celebration by 2 friends today. Being typical Asians, I guess they didn't really want to flaunt the reason for the celebration, but the event photo of the Facebook invite was quite clear that this has something to do with them being together for the longest time I can remember (when I was still schooling?). And a picture at today's event venue, of them holding hands showing their rings on their wedding fingers said it all.

And by the way, that picture clearly showed the LGBT rainbow flag in the background.

So it was the unconventional and "un-wedding" like celebration ever, though the requisite  food, wine and conversations were aplenty. The "wedding" couple dressed simply, mingled amongst friends, with no lavish display of processions like how you would see in most (if not all) weddings celebrations nowadays. You would have passed this off as a normal mass friends' gathering instead.

Was especially touched, but unsure why. I guess with all news about people's breakups, divorces, having something so simple as having two persons committing to each other by virtue of a promise, it is really the essence of the whole concept of marriage, commitment and love, notwithstanding whether if there are any witnesses in testimony to that, or have any fancy celebrations to prove a point.

I wish them the best together, but I think that has pretty much been cemented already :)