All you never needed to know about Japanese weddings

I don’t think anyone whose knowledge of Japan extends past “Memoirs of a Geisha” can be surprised that the average couple lusts after a ‘real’ European wedding in a real European church. Hell, me too! Well, in my case it was supposed to be my local registry office back home- which just happens to be Tudor and have a nice garden. But it was not to be- they’ve changed the law to stop Britain being swamped by a flood of Japanese asylum seekers (”My life is in danger. I’m scared if I go home the social pressure will make me commit suicide!”) or something. The real reason is, of course, that the people affected rarely if ever vote and so the government has more to gain from the safe feeling it gives Daily Mail readers to know only white people are getting married there than it does from helping us ex-pats and our Asian mail-order brides.

So, it’s Shinto wedding for me! I’ll be wearing my hakama (samurai trousers) and will never be able to feel smug about the Japanese doing this again.

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