Japan - Day Four, The Wedding
We woke up early to get ready for the big day. Reggie broke out the iron and the ironing board so our shirts can be ironed. When we arrived at the city hall, Manami was already there waiting. It took us over an hour for them to finish the whole thing, filling and straightening out all necessary paperwork.
We found out a Japanese civil wedding is way different from US or even Philippine civil weddings. There was no judge or mayor present. It's basically between the bride, the groom and any city hall clerk available.
Everyone's starved by the time they finished. The newly married couple took us to this sushi restaurant named Sushi Ro with three (or was it four?) conveyors always turning with plates of sushi. It was basically a sensory overload for me. I was in sushi (hog) heaven! When we were done, I had 14, count them FOURTEEN, empty plates in front of me!
I even had me a piece of whale bacon, can you believe it?
In the afternoon we took a train ride to meet Manami's parents who're treating us for dinner at Anzuno Hana restaurant with a seven course meal. When we got off the station, we found her parents already waiting for us. We walked a bit to get to the restaurant. It was one of those fancy Japanese restaurant complete with privacy walls and all. The food was great, for me anyway. Donna couldn't handle the sashimi so Reggie and I split her share.
Reggie and Manami put on the platinum wedding rings on each other after we finished dinner with toasts, best wishes and congratulations from the proud and happy parents.
We all rode on the same train back home but Manami's parents got off on the first stop.
Although we've had dessert, we had to do the inevitable stop at the neighborhood ice cream shop.
We found out a Japanese civil wedding is way different from US or even Philippine civil weddings. There was no judge or mayor present. It's basically between the bride, the groom and any city hall clerk available.
Everyone's starved by the time they finished. The newly married couple took us to this sushi restaurant named Sushi Ro with three (or was it four?) conveyors always turning with plates of sushi. It was basically a sensory overload for me. I was in sushi (hog) heaven! When we were done, I had 14, count them FOURTEEN, empty plates in front of me!
I even had me a piece of whale bacon, can you believe it?
In the afternoon we took a train ride to meet Manami's parents who're treating us for dinner at Anzuno Hana restaurant with a seven course meal. When we got off the station, we found her parents already waiting for us. We walked a bit to get to the restaurant. It was one of those fancy Japanese restaurant complete with privacy walls and all. The food was great, for me anyway. Donna couldn't handle the sashimi so Reggie and I split her share.
Reggie and Manami put on the platinum wedding rings on each other after we finished dinner with toasts, best wishes and congratulations from the proud and happy parents.
We all rode on the same train back home but Manami's parents got off on the first stop.
Although we've had dessert, we had to do the inevitable stop at the neighborhood ice cream shop.
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