Once Julian and Cathy were engaged, they set the wedding for April 2016 — far enough off for all the necessary planning and preparation, but not much more than that.
The first step, though, was to get a marriage license. Where Julian’s a foreigner, that was slightly more complicated than it might otherwise have been, so they didn’t put it off for long. On October 25, 2015, they went to the appropriate office in Shanghai (why Shanghai and not Hangzhou? I’m not sure) and filled out the necessary paperwork.
Which meant that under Chinese law, they were now married. The Chinese government doesn’t care about ceremonies. From then until April it was sort of vague as to whether we should consider them engaged or married, but officially, they were married. An official photo was taken, as seen here, but that was about it for any sort of celebration.
That was Part 1 of the wedding. And that was it until April.
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