Selah the Flower girl

This past week, Selah got to strut her stuff down isle of a friends wedding. This is not a traditional Chinese wedding thing to have, but this friend wanted her and two other foreign girls to be included in the festivities. Her and the five year old ran down the isle, each launching the flower petals as if it was game 7 of the World Series. They were on a mission.

The wedding was a beautiful union of a brother and sister who are living faithfully and sacrificially on a minute by minute calendar. I've been fairly depressed at the state of marriages here, so it was encouraging to actually be excited for their union. Most marriages are a social arrangement with important economic ramifications, that's it. Very little relationship acutally goes into the marriage. If the boyfriend cannot provide a proper dowry upon marriage, the marriage will not be blessed by the parents. Most parents also are anxious to marry off their daughters so that they can have kids and the grandparents can take care of them. All that to be said, the wedding was wonderful and Selah loved the center isle.