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Kid_Kyoto wrote:

The weddings I went to in Japan had an interesting approach, the invite had a charge and you knew to give/pay that when you arrived. No fretting about whether or not your toaster gift covers the cost of your dinner, the charge is right there.


Not bad, not bad at all. Meiji Jingu seriously? Did you need an in or did you just have to throw down a pile of cash?

Yeah, I really liked the envelopes of money over redundant, useless, items but every last cent went towards the cost of the wedding and of course it didn't cover all the expenses.

It's all about timing with Meiji Jingu, that and the huge pile of cash you throw at them. It was hard to hand over the 100,000 yen just as a thank you to the temple for letting us pay even more for the ceremony. I think I was stunned all day, and therefore pliant to all the robbery that occured throughout.

I do have some cool memories and a DVD of us doing the ceremony and wedding processional, etc....and I only goofed up once in my pronunciation of the Japanese oath of fealty to my wife.


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Miguelsan wrote:Although it might count as cheating here for some and in the spirit of one upmanship I got married twice to the same bride within 4 months of each other. The wonders of intercultural marriage!

And even tho we paid for it at first both families insisted in giving us back the money.

M.

Me too. One here in the states and then the big show in Tokyo.

loki old fart wrote:Been married 21 yrs
I'd have been out now if I'd killed her

We have a winner.

agnosto wrote:

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

The weddings I went to in Japan had an interesting approach, the invite had a charge and you knew to give/pay that when you arrived. No fretting about whether or not your toaster gift covers the cost of your dinner, the charge is right there.


Not bad, not bad at all. Meiji Jingu seriously? Did you need an in or did you just have to throw down a pile of cash?

Yeah, I really liked the envelopes of money over redundant, useless, items but every last cent went towards the cost of the wedding and of course it didn't cover all the expenses.

It's all about timing with Meiji Jingu, that and the huge pile of cash you throw at them. It was hard to hand over the 100,000 yen just as a thank you to the temple for letting us pay even more for the ceremony. I think I was stunned all day, and therefore pliant to all the robbery that occured throughout.

I do have some cool memories and a DVD of us doing the ceremony and wedding processional, etc....and I only goofed up once in my pronunciation of the Japanese oath of fealty to my wife.
.

Did she also adopt you into her family?

And surely you don't mean to imply that these priests would possibly be interested in something as worldly as cold hard cash?

agnosto wrote:
I do have some cool memories and a DVD of us doing the ceremony and wedding processional, etc....and I only goofed up once in my pronunciation of the Japanese oath of fealty to my wife.

Me too, I managed to promise the to love her thing twice but not the second part about respect and fidelity.

M.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Did she also adopt you into her family?

And surely you don't mean to imply that these priests would possibly be interested in something as worldly as cold hard cash?

She actually had to make her own family registry because I can't be added to her father's family so now we are a clan of two in Japan.