A wedding

The next day after Disney sea was a wedding for my mother’s brother.  I was initially worried because I’d have to meet so many new people in Japanese, and also I thought it would be boring.  But in reality the wedding was awesome and I had an equally good time at the wedding as I did at Disney sea.

                When I came to japan I brought with me some dress pants and shirt, but it wasn’t at all fitting for a wedding.  Luckily my host father was roughly the same size as me and so with the family I was able to pick out some proper wedding clothes that fit me.

                At the wedding building, in the lounge, I went through a few different introductions and idle chat which went well despite being in Japanese.  I got to meet my host mother’s mother, father, and sister among other people which I remember less of.  Both my mother’s mother, and the mother from the other family were the only ones wearing traditional black Japanese yukatas for the wedding.  No other girls wore those.  They are more formal than regular dresses.  Guys can wear something similar too but all the guys wore suits.  I’m not sure if it was a cultural thing that only the two mothers could wear those for a wedding or if it was just decided to be that way.  But I did end up getting a picture with my mother’s mother in that outfit, so you can see that online.

                The wedding shocked me because it was not only a Christian wedding, but that the priest was a white guy who spoke English half of the ceremony.  The whole process I assume was just as it would have been in an American wedding, but I wouldn’t know since I have never been to a wedding before.  I got pictures of most of it anyway.

                After the ceremony which didn’t take very long, we got to go into a larger room to have an after-wedding dinner.  Various kinds of food, most of it I liked and some of it I traded for other stuff.  I got to sit between my host father and my mother’s mother.  So I got to talk to my mother’s mother who was a very nice woman and I have to say that my host mother’s family is super nice.  I had a lot more fun than I expected to in getting along with the family as well as viewing the wedding process.  It was a very modern wedding in my opinion.

                So modern that there were some surprises.  Throughout the whole process there were various people with large cameras and video cameras crouching and moving around taking various shots.  At the end of the dinner, which maybe the whole day was only a few hours, the wedding place had made more or less a music video of the whole thing with photos taken from that same day.  I am pictured like 3 times in that video which was nice.  Also, they gave everyone at the wedding  a paper that had a user name and password to pick up all the photos and videos from their website after they have been properly edited.  I liked those modern touches to the wedding.

                Also, the mother’s brother who was getting married works in the computer industry.  Something to do with windows servers and android.  I don’t remember whether it was administration and security or programming.  But his best man who is also in the industry talked with me for a little bit and gave me his business card for his company of which he is the president, and told me to look them up on facebook.  So, that was really cool, and I already added him.  It’s like I’m already making connections through attending weddings.

                I had a lot more fun at the wedding than I thought I would, and I’m glad that I went as that was one of the highlights of the trip and I would have really missed out if I didn’t go.  I made sure to congratulate the newlyweds as well, and thanked everyone for letting me come, as I was the only one who didn’t have much to do with the whole thing.

                Everyone should really get a look at the images I uploaded.  It was a really nice looking wedding.  Also a cool thing to see in the pictures and videos is this sort of staircase of glasses.  The husband and wife poured some sort of blue glowing liquid in and everyone got to watch it travel down the glasses, and then they poured in another thing of liquid which as it traveled down created different colors I guess based on amount of whatever was in a certain glass at the time.  It ended up as a glowing rainbow of cool.

                I could write a lot more but I think I will let the pictures do the rest.  When the wedding company pictures are put online I will see if I can get some of those too.