Love is in the air. Or is that just the bouquet?

Now with spring slowly easing upon us, the wedding season is kicking into high gear. Every weekend, in hotels, churches, wedding halls, families gather for that special 30 minute ceremony where single men and women can finally brush off the marital pressures they’ve been suffering since they graduated from college. Yes, I said 30 minutes. With the reception, the whole thing finishes up in 45.

Let me paint the picture. You are invited to a wedding at a “traditional” wedding hall. (Churches and wedding halls are the two most visible buildings dotting almost every other block in this country. Starbucks is becoming a close third.) The hall is usually three to four stories high with a wedding ceremony happening on each floor starting fifteen minutes from each other. Why fifteen minutes, you ask? After you witness the blazing ceremony pass you by, there needs to be enough time for the wedding party to speed down to the reception in the basement. You’d think the parents are paying for the wedding by the hour. But it actually is the hall management who are trying to turnover as many weddings as possible in one day.

So you can imagine a constant flow of bodies, going up the elevator, down the elevator, wedding gowns, sashes, flowers, confetti just flying everywhere. But the people who manage these halls perform this dance with such precision, one wedding party never runs into the other. I can easily imagine a team of Samsung managers using the halls as case studies for their own assembly lines.

I'll be going to my first wedding of the season in two weeks. Trust me, I'll have my running shoes on.

- Mark in Seoul