What can be very rich in culture but least romantic of all? Answer: a Japanese wedding! We attended my brother-in-law’s wedding yesterday. Western style wedding is popular in Japan, but traditional is still a preferred style.
The groom mostly walking ahead of the wife as she follows him around like a faithful servant. No “you may kiss the bride” after the ceremony, no first dance, rarely if none do they even held each others arm. As the bride needs to hold her kimono and the groom hold on to his fan. Its normal to see cultural presentations. This time it was Japanese drumming by a bunch of kids. Oh and the speeches, dont get me started, the head of the company who barely knows the couple has to be invited to speak, and usually ending up talking about their firm.
I love Japanese culture, but Im more interested with the couple during a wedding. Call me a hopeless romantic, but weddings should be a venue for grand display of drama, hihihhi.
Since this is sort of a food blog, these are some of the food we ate…
children's course
appetizers
that's my name in katakana , the alphabet they used for all foreign words and names
sashimi with the sake bottle
Couldn’t help but think how we made our Japanese wedding organizers and hotel staff lose their senses, when we had ours last March. Bringing in a lot of wedding professionals from the Philippines, and changing a lot of the set program they wanted us to follow, to maximize drama, hihihihi!
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