Hello, I attended four weddings in six months. It is rare to have four weddings in a half year. I feel it is usually once in several years in my experience. I had many delicious wedding dishes, so I will introduce that.
identifier.html (725 KB)Caption: @Chichibu Shrine. Sanshin no gi (the ceremony of attendance). A red umbrella stands for an amulet.
Wedding @ Chichibu Shrine
It was a traditional Japanese wedding. I don’t think there are not so much this styles these days. We mainly serve Japanese food, but we also have steaks. identifier.html (725 KB)Caption: Traditional Japanese weddings. It is held in shrines.identifier.html (725 KB)Caption: Mainly Japanese food.
Wedding @ Happo-en
It was a western-style ceremony. The garden is beautiful. The food is also Western. I surprised that the steak was grilled in front of me. identifier.html (725 KB)Caption: @ Happo-en. a style of wedding dress and suit. The garden of Happo-en is also famous. You can see autumn leaves, birds and carp.identifier.html (725 KB)Caption: It is more like Western food, but there is also rice.
Wedding @ Gajo-en
It was a very modern and wonderful style. Dress in Western style. It was a rare Chinese dish. It’s delicious. identifier.html (725 KB)Caption: @ Gajo-en. The interior is gorgeous and modern.identifier.html (725 KB)Caption: A lot of Chinese food. It’s rare.
Wedding @ Blue Leman
I enjoyed various performances. The food is Western. Delicious. identifier.html (730 KB)Caption: @ Blueleman. various performancesidentifier.html (725 KB)Caption: The food is Western style.
Note: These weddings are one of many wedding styles. There are many other wedding styles in Japan.
What kind of food is served at a wedding in your country? Please let me know in comment!!!
When it comes to the cuisine of the wedding ceremony in Japan, the most popular menu is red snapper. Red snapper is called “Tai(鯛)” in Japanese. And there is a celebration word, “Medetai”. As Medetai include “tai”, people loved to eat red snapper at the ceremony to pray for the couple’s happy life.
@YutaE Wow! 4 weddings in 6 months is a lot! Your photos are all so lovely! They look like they were such wonderful weddings. I was surprised that the traditional Japanese style wedding had steak.
I attended my friends’ wedding this past May. In the US, often the food at a wedding is served in buffet style with a few sides and usually two choices for the main dish. This time, they also had a special main dish for the vegetarians called a “portabello stack” which rice with several different types of grilled vegetable and grilled portabello mushroom on top. They didn’t have it at the buffet so you had to order it from the staff.
Wedding cakes are also a very important food item at American weddings. My friends had a red velvet cake with buttercream frosting and real flowers for decoration. As wedding cakes go, it was a pretty simple cake but beautiful nonetheless.
@YutaE Thank you for sharing this post with us. Wow, you attended 4 weddings in 6 months! Which one of these weddings do you like the most? Why? The wedding at Chichibu Shrine looks lovely, with the outdoor ceremony, surrounded by nature, that is so nice.
@Christine_T The Portabello Stack looks really nice. Do you like it? Portabello is my love at first bite. So yummy, tastes like chicken, makes my stomach full and the best part is that it is so healthy.
Thank you for your comment! That were many weddings, and it was tough in my wallet. lol. Also, thank you for introducing the American wedding! It’s very interesting. I learned the word “portobello stack”, first time for me.
And, Looking at the picture, they are dancing. It looks fun. We don’t dance in Japan.
One question, is the wedding cake real? In Japan, it is usually fake. The ceremony cake cutting is important, but it doesn’t seem to matter whether the cake is real or not in Japan.
@YutaE Yes, they are dancing. Dancing is also an important part of weddings in the US. We probably spend a few hours just dancing and talking.
The cake is always real in the US. The bride and groom will often try many different cakes before choosing which cake to have at the wedding. After cutting the cake, the couple usually feed the first bite to each other.
Because cakes are usually real in the US and because @HiroyukiTakisawa and I had a real cake at our wedding in Iwate I was so surprised when I saw one of the fake cakes for the first time.
Do more traditional Japanese weddings have any special sweet?
Hi @YutaE , thank you for this post. This year I went to 4 weddings too. Bulgarian wedding traditions and rituals are remarkable for their festive spirit and their detail and variety.
The typical wedding is lively, cheerful, loud and emotional, with a lot of fun and dancing and considerable quantities of homemade rakia (national alcoholic drink) and wine. The main and most specific aspects of a Bulgarian wedding are that quite often there are not one but two ceremonies – a civil and a religious one. The marriage ceremony is always performed of holidays, mostly on Sundays. Both families prepare for the ceremony together and separately, and have invited guests.
On the big day, regardless of being together or at different locations, during the preparations of the bride (hair-do and make-up), the groom goes to the home of the “kumove” (two people, usually a couple or a family, who have similar role as the best man and the maid of honor in the western traditions) and then the three of them together go to get the bride. Here on this picture you can see me, the groom and the best man.
We have one really interesting ritual here, buying/stealing the bride. The groom, sometimes together with the “kum” (best man), and sometimes accompanied by 50 friends and relatives, heads out towards the bride. Once the wedding party arrives at the bride’s home there is much merrymaking and the bride is locked in a room and only the best woman can visit her until the groom and the best man bargain to be let in. Here on the next photo you can see the bride in the wardrobe, where we try to hide her
Thank you for the interesting comment. I know there is a prom-like culture in America. American dance well, don’t you? On the other hand, my personal opinion is that Japanese can hardly dance, including myself. And I’d like to attend an American wedding and eat a wedding cake someday
Thank you for detailed information and photos! It’s much impressive. I didn’t know Bulgarian weddings at all, so I learned a lot. “kumove” and “legal of buying/stealing the bride” are especially interesting. More than anything, it looks fun.
If I have a chance to talk with people from other countries, I would like to ask what kind of wedding it is
@YutaE wow these weddings look fabulous! The food and venues are wonderful. I absolutely love weddings. There is no real wedding food tradition here. It is more about the wedding budget. I have been to weddings where the food is very opulent. I have also attended weddings where the food is tasty but not extravagant. I also take special interest in the decor and the details.
I agree with you so much about opulent things. A wedding like the one in my post is very expensive. The host is usually in the red. Also, I am interested in the wedding you will be attending in November, if possible, please comment on the photos and text!
So yummy, tastes like chicken, makes my stomach full and the best part is that it is so healthy.
