Wang Yao and I were married in the eyes of the Chinese government today, after some fiascos involving red tape and beaurocratic nonsense.

Our wedding isn't for another three months, the date set for the 18th of December (so if anyone wants to come to Kunming for the wedding, let me know), but, as is the custom in China, we got the official part out of the way first, so that we can spend the next few months planning for the ceremony.

Mine and Wang Yao's official wedding photo is pretty funny. I'll post it soon, I forgot my USB cable so I can't do it now. We're set against a backdrop of red and both wearing army green. Anyone familiar at all with the concept of revolutionary weddings and the Mao period,during which young people routinely got married wearing their best army uniforms will notice a resemblance. The woman processing our paperwork at the city government office burst out laughing when she saw it. We just happened to be both wearing army green that day, and didn't notice until after we got the pictures developed that we looked like a couple of Red Guards about to go give some intellectuals the smackdown.