When my husband and I first started talking about getting married, I had expressed how important it was to me to represent his culture as Taiwanese in our ceremony. As such, we had planned on having a traditional Taiwanese wedding ceremony at some point in time. Some point was August 6, 2022.
This past summer, over a year after officially entering a legal marriage in the United States, we were able to hold our traditional ceremony in Yilan (??????), at a private villa in the country. This quiet but expansive farming region was a far cry from the experience I had thus far in Taipei — Remote, with far few options for food and entertainment and rice fields dividing property lines. Yilan held its own beauty however, with sprawling flat farmlands and a warm, inviting population.