Hot In Pink!

All decked out in new threads, the Taylor’s made a showing at a wedding a couple of weeks ago. Pictures are to come in a bit, but first I thought I’d add some Japanese wedding trivia to the plate.

The whole wedding to place in less than 3 hours (that includes ceremony and reception). I can’t imagine how many staff must have been working it, but likely something similar to what it takes to pull off the academy awards. There were spotlight operators, bubble maker operators, a DJ, an MC narrating the whole night, sheep dog (people telling the guests where to go and stand) and that doesn’t include any of the tens of servers helping out pouring champagne or bringing out the 10 course dinner.

The bride wore 3 dresses, quite the norm. They also chose the very popular “western wedding style” in a church with a white dress. A couple comments about this. There was a very “staged” feel about the whole thing. I think the priest was actually moonlighting, his regular job probably something like mine, teaching English at a junior high school or conversation school. This is actually a very well known fact. (The pay is anywhere from $100 to $150 for 30 minutes and a couple of lines with the names changed.) The church was beautifully done up, but as they opened the front doors up to allow the two of them to walk off into the afternoon son, a very unharmonious view (not visible through this shot because the sunlight is hiding most of the harbour view aside from the blue ship) of industrial Nagoya port, some power lines, and a huge freighter stole a lot of magic from the entirely made up environment.

The church was pretty small and so there wasn’t much space for walking down the aisle. I know you’re supposed to take your time, but wow they were in SUPER SLOW MO! It took a whole minute to walk 15 paces.

There is an interesting tradition of the wedding couple throwing treats (like Kit Kat, or small bags of peanuts) to their guests from the top of the church stairs. The parents of the bride and group help out in this activity that turned out to be more like a game of dodge ball. Imagine if you can, 100 people crowded into a small area being pelted with from above with handfuls of small rocks. People caught looking one way would get hit in the face by a snack from the other side. Or when they thought the pelting was over, another bag of snacks would be unawaringly pulled out at tossed in the direction of those not looking. Luckily we were at the very back, out of range of most of the violence, however, it was very interesting to watch.

In summary, it was an interesting time. And here we see that Fuzuki tried to get sloshed off of Strawberry champagne!