In Japan there are several ways to perform weddings. One may be in the traditional way in a Shinto temple wearing Kimono and another may be in a church, but lately is more fashionable to get married in church because it is considered more "fashion" and because weddings in Shinto temples are extremely expensive .

To marry in a church does not mean they are Christians, as this is a country in which you can see Buddhist temples within temples shitoistas and vice versa, and where people celebrate both Christian festivals, Shinto as Buddhist, so getting married in a Inglesia is simply because it is more fashionable.

Then I will tell you as a wedding in a church, because he married a few months ago a friend of Ayumi in this way and that is the more information I have.

There are lovers who when asked to marry girlfriend and bought a diamond ring, and there are others who ask no ring and deposed going to buy once they have accepted. It is also tradition that the groom go to the home of the bride's parents to ask permission to marry his daughter and once they have accepted the two families often gather and groom are given a lot of money to the bride's family . This money can be understood as a reward to "steal" a family member, as in Japan to marry a woman loses her surname and takes that of the husband, so this woman becomes the family of man.

Once you have compromotido to marry, the marriage made, it really is just going to town hall and sign a paper at a time and from that point, you are officially married.
After going to buy wedding rings (apart from the groom has already given to the bride). These rings must be equal to two rings which are exchanged at the wedding ceremony, reserve a place well in advance to make the wedding, as in a church, a chapel, hotel etc and send wedding invitations.

The wedding day is the day that guests give money to the couple, and not before. This money is usually given in a special envelope for this act, and we must be very careful about the money that is given, as it has to be 10000, 30000, 50000, 70000 yen etc, always starting with an odd number, since means that if the number is a number that starts with par round is very easy to divide by 2, and wedding ceremonies the aim is the union and not to divide things by 2.

After making the wedding sermon, on leaving the church the couple pulled flowers, and rice are the wedding photos in the same place and going to do a banquet for all the guests, banquets not often in restaurants, if not special sites that appear to restaurants but they are exclusively for weddings.
Finally, after the banquet usually go somewhere else to drink together.

I have not discussed anything about the bachelor party as this is not something very typical in Japan.

Leaving the Church.

At the banquet.

Drinks after the banquet.

You can see all the wedding photos here.

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