Well, at last, here are my pics from the wedding. I'll start off with some of the kitchen workers:
And then here's one of the men out the back of the kitchen preparing the sheep for the wedding lunch:
And then a woman cleaning the internal organs:
Now, here is the food getting ready to be served at the wedding. We sat in a huge semi-circle, similar to a Pacifica arrangement, with men on one side and women on the other:
Women in the semi-circle:
The more elderly, plus the bride's parents and the laowei sat at tables. The groom's family were not present:
Some of the men seated at a table, lunch is served:
The bride and groom in the middle of the circle, getting married:
More people in the semi-circle:
Before and after the meal we all mingled:
And whilst we were eating the dogs wandered around the back of the semi-circle in the hope of getting some sheep chucked their way. Note the toilet in the background, I didn't intentionally mean to snap a shot of it...but it was very public: