Society Wedding of the Decade

They were spotted by one of the reporters. 'Miss Dai! Miss Zhuo! Are you running away from your own wedding guests?'

'Yes!' came the laughing reply.

'Where are you running off to?'

Another peal of laughter. 'Our honeymoon, of course!'

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— douqi (@DouQi7s) March 29, 2021

'We wanted to have our first dance by ourselves,' Dai Xi would explain, many years later. 'We didn't want to be more of a spectacle than we already were.'

Zhuo Dan chuckled. 'It also made it easier for me to carry you off.'

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— douqi (@DouQi7s) March 29, 2021

'The wedding pictures turned out real nice.'
'I can't believe we were ever that young.'
'I can.'

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— douqi (@DouQi7s) March 29, 2021

BGM for first video edit: cover of Crazy in Love by Emelie Sandé and The Bryan Ferry Orchestra
BGM for second video edit: Shostakovich's Waltz No 2, performed by Anastazja Studzińska

— douqi (@DouQi7s) March 29, 2021

The names Dai Xi (戴茜) and Zhuo Dan (卓丹) were basically stolen from Daisy Buchanan and Jordan Baker, because sapphic Asian Gatsby remake WHEN

Although, speaking of queer Asian-American Gatsby retellings: https://t.co/6E7SY2wwu0

— douqi (@DouQi7s) March 29, 2021

I imagined this as taking place in a very historically inaccurate version of Republican-Era Shanghai where same-sex weddings take place for ceremonial (if not legal) purposes, at least among the elite. These happen infrequently, are huge splashy affairs (because why not) and generate entire weeks' worth of stories for the gossip papers.

I should have said 'Gatsby-inspired' instead, given how profoundly depressing the novel is.