The evening banquet started exactly at seven in the evening. As we arrived in the banquet hall, it was required that someone by the door, one of the palace attendants, would have to announce our arrival for everyone in the hall to hear. It was just another custom that we had to follow.
The first ones to have their arrivals announced are the empress and the main consort, then the concubines and lastly, their children (the princes who were half siblings of Aurum) and the only princess which is Aurum's younger sibling). They all had to get in first for formality's sake. We will come in last since we are the ones who will be having the marriage ritual or as they say, the stars of this event.
