Saturday, August 27, 2011

A wedding ceremony at the International Peace Garden

Today is our  27th anniversary. We decided to do something special by driving all the way to Peace Garden where we last visited in 2002. It just happened that as soon as I set up my easel right on the demarcation line dividing Canada and the United States of America, I realized that there was going to be a wedding ceremony of a young American couple from North Dakota right in front of me!   What can be more fitting to paint a new wedding ceremony to mark incidentally our own 27th anniversary. 27 years ago tonight , we got married ten- thousands of miles away  in a most remote and isolated northwestern part of China close to the then China and Soviet Russia border. We could have never dreamed that 27 years later we would be in a totally different part of the world on a most peaceful and  most beautiful border ! Hope I have captured the most essential part of the ceremony where the couple stands there sharing their wedding vow, with the priest officiating, a lone guitarist playing Pachebell's canon, and family and friends sitting behind sharing the joy of the moment.

1 comment:

Linda McCrae Tame said...

Absolutely beautiful Weiming, and with such a touching story too! Congratulations on your 27th Anniversary!