To the Love of My Life

Chapter 861: Chapter 861 Ruby Time: The Wedding (Finale 31)_1

July 7th, the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met, is China’s Valentine’s Day.

On this day, Steve Burton and Ruby Gregory had their wedding.

The initial suggestion of Madam Burton was to have the wedding in the Aegean Sea or in Florin, but Steve and Ruby unanimously decided on Red Park Resort & Villas—the “old place” they had visited every month for so many years.

Although the wedding was orchestrated by Madam Burton, Steve and Ruby were the main characters. Even though she felt that Red Park Resort & Villas was slightly lacking in grandeur, since Steve and Ruby liked it, she didn’t voice any further objections.

Despite not choosing the most lavish venue, they spared no expense whatsoever.

Fifteen days before Steve and Ruby’s wedding, Red Park Resort & Villas suspended all its business. This imperial gardens and temples, with a history stretching back to ancient times, has always maintained its classical charm through the years with its pavilions, towers, surrounding hills, and encircling water.

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Madam Burton especially encouraged this classical ambiance, adorning the entire Red Park Resort & Villas with big red lanterns everywhere, creating a festive and celebratory atmosphere.

The wedding site was located on the top floor of Red Park Resort & Villas, in a banquet hall usually reserved for big corporate annual meetings. Standing at the entrance, one could have a perfect view of the scenic beauty of the resort. Madam Burton felt that the high location, with clouds floating by on clear days and good feng shui, made it ideal, so she transformed the banquet hall into the wedding site for Steve and Ruby.

All around the wedding site, walls were replaced with bright French windows. Through the windows, the outside scenery could be seen, and dreamy white floor-to-ceiling curtains were hung. The hundreds of alcohol tables placed inside were all a vibrant red, with each table’s center graced by an exquisite vase holding a bouquet of flowers, vivid and enticing.

Above the wedding site, crystal diamonds of varying lengths were suspended, which, under the lights, refracted blindingly bright light.

In the very center of the wedding site was a transparent glass walkway. Every ten meters stood an arched garland door, similarly entwined with various kinds of fresh flowers—white roses, red roses, pink roses, and lilies.

At the end of the glass walkway was a stage also made of glass, set against a backdrop of a large screen framed by soft pink and dark pink roses, where a slideshow of wedding photos of Steve and Ruby taken at famous spots around the world slowly played.

Above the stage hung brightly colored special-effect lights which, shining down on the glass stage, created a spectrum of flowing lights, like a dreamy fairy tale.

To the left of the stage stood a tall pyramid of empty wine glasses, and nearby was a two-meter-tall cake adorned with cream of various colors sculpted into realistic-looking flowers.

Such a wedding scene boasted a thoroughly modern style. Yet looking through the windows at the ancient scenery outside, there was no sense of incongruity—it was as if the modern and the ancient had fused flawlessly.

Although Madam Burton was not superstitious, she still chose an auspicious hour for the formal wedding ceremony based on Steve and Ruby’s birth dates and times, which was twelve eighteen in the afternoon.

The guests who had received the wedding invitations started arriving one after another, beginning at nine in the morning. In just an hour, the parking lot of Red Park Resort & Villas was already packed with all sorts of luxury cars.

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