"Wa" Wedding
Wednesday 27 May 2009
Many people likes to wear dresses and get married in churches (doesn't matter if they're christians) - do everything in western style, but it seems that "wa" (japanese style) weddings are becoming more popular these days in Tokyo. Still, in most cases if they wear kimono and have "wa" ceremony, they wear dress and have western style party with French cuisine. Well, it may not be right to say "western style" because our lifestyle is pretty much westernised today. Anyway... my best friend had hers in all "wa" style wedding, from the invitation, venue, ceremony, reception, food, costume - she changed into another kimono after the ceremony, oh and her hair! Well actually it's a wig and apparently it weighs like 3 kilos! Isn't that a "wow!"!? I saw it in real life for the first time actually.
The ceremony (shinto style) was really beautiful and interesting, but pitty no photographs were allowed. The room they had their reception was perfect! (below images are from Meijikinenkan website)
Oh, beautiful! I would rather have this wedding!
ReplyDeleteThe first photo looks weird but very beautiful, a bit Hopper-like. i once saw on tv a docu about kimono's, all those layers, so beautiful, and than the finishing touch with a nice obi.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand what's so attractive on western style.
>jen laceda
ReplyDeleteWould be fun, wouldn't it? :)
>at swim-two-birds
I don't mean the western style is not attractive, a lot of the times I do find it attractive! And maybe I feel the traditional wedding attractive now because it's silly but it feels "different" as it is somehow forgotten here!
The whole time I lived in Japan I never understood why Japanese wanted to have 'western style' weddings when traditional Japanese style weddings (and kimono) seem so beautiful. I new an Australian guy who had a job as a wedding celebrant in Osaka for Christian style weddings for Japanese even though he's not religious and neither where the Japanese people getting married. It just seemed odd to me. Gorgeous wig on your friend!!!!
ReplyDeleteI know I know! People seem to love to have western looking "priests" at their weddings, it's often obvious that they are just doing it as "baito" but that doesn't reallly matter I guess. There are many odd things at weddings here, can be quite amuzing well at least for me but I know I better not say :p
ReplyDeleteThank you for a wonderful window on Japanese "New Culture"..I never knew that some Japanese people would want to have a Western Style Wedding Ceremony...BTW wonderful pictures.
ReplyDeleteBaron's Life,
ReplyDeleteWell, only 2 out of 11 weddings I've been to in Japan so far were done in Japanese style!!
That traditional wedding looks and sounds so wunderfull!!
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