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The Betrothal: Rituals (Alex)

Japanese wedding food traditions include serving odd numbers of dishes to avoid dividing the couple, as well as dishes with symbolic meanings. Popular wedding foods are kombu soup for seafood flavor, kazunoko (herring roe) for fertility, datemaki (rolled omelet), and sushi cakes made of smoked salmon, rice and eggs as the wedding cake replacement. Traditional Japanese wedding cakes are also large and tall.

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The Betrothal: Rituals (Alex)

Japanese wedding food traditions include serving odd numbers of dishes to avoid dividing the couple, as well as dishes with symbolic meanings. Popular wedding foods are kombu soup for seafood flavor, kazunoko (herring roe) for fertility, datemaki (rolled omelet), and sushi cakes made of smoked salmon, rice and eggs as the wedding cake replacement. Traditional Japanese wedding cakes are also large and tall.

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RITUALS (ALEX)

The Betrothal
The Japanese betrothal ceremony, called the yuino, is an
exchange of symbolic gifts between the groom's and bride's
families. Some popular gifts are: konbu, a seaweed whose name
can be written to mean "child-bearing woman"; a long white
piece of hemp, representing a wish that the couple will grow old
and gray together; and a folding fan, which spreads to show
future wealth and growth. The main gift is money (about
$5,000), tucked in a special envelope called ashugi-bukuro,
which has gold and silver strings that are impossible to unknot.
The other gifts are given in ornate rice-paper envelopes.

Sake-Sharing Ceremony
The traditional Japanese ceremony is a Shinto ceremony, though
many Japanese in America celebrate weddings with a Buddhist
ceremony. Regardless of religious rituals, most Japanese also
include a cultural sake-sharing tradition at the wedding,
popularly called san-san-kudo -- san means "three," ku means
"nine," and do means "to deliver." This ritual dates back to a
time when sharing sake created a formal bond as strongly as a
handshake did in Victorian times. Using three flat sake cups
stacked atop one another, the bride and groom take three sips
each from the cups. Then their parents also take sips (for a total
of nine sips), cementing the bond between the families.

Honoring the Parents


Japanese weddings usually take some time to acknowledge the
parents of the bride and groom. In some weddings, the couple
offers bouquets of flowers, a toast, or a personal letter of love
and thanks. Any of these gestures is a beautiful way to honor
your parents at the wedding.

Speeches
Wedding speeches and blessings are very important at Japanese
weddings. Family, friends, colleagues, and teachers all stand up
at one point or another to wish the couple well. Traditionally,
these speeches might be moralistic tales about matrimony's
importance; in America, they have evolved into heartfelt
messages of love from close friends and family.

Japanese Wedding Clothes (MARIA)

For a traditional Shinto wedding the groom dons a traditional


black kimono for the ceremony and sometimes changes into
gaudy blue or white tuxedo, like those worn by American high
school boys on prom night, for the after-wedding party.

A bride that endures five costume changes wears a traditional


white kimono with a white hat fixed over complex hairstyle
(usually a wig) for the ceremony. Then she changes into an
elaborately-designed mostly red kimono at the beginning of the
reception. After the cake cut she changes into a brightly colored
young-girls kimono, and later in the party dons a white Western-
style bridal dress and finally puts on an Audrey Hepburn-style
evening gown.

Traditional wedding costumes worn by women often includes a


large white veil that conceals the "horns of jealousy" and used to
include a small dagger like those used in ritual suicides in the
event the bride dishonored her husband. White has traditionally
been the color of wedding kimonos because white is a symbol of
purity and mourning. The latter is a reference to the fact that the
bride is upset over leaving her family.

The rental fee for the groom's kimono is about $600. The rental
fee for the bride's five kimonos and dress can be $10,000 or
more. In some rural areas brides are displayed in the window of
their homes like mannequins in a store front window.

Japanese Wedding Food (SOLANGE)

Japanese wedding food a traditional way To celebrate Japanese weddings is fun


to know about. You will be amazed to know about the different types of food which
are prepared during Japanese weddings and how they are served. Normally, foods
which indicate happiness and peace are eaten during Japanese weddings this
is one of those traditions which is being followed since ages. Japanese wedding
cakes for instance are different from the cakes we find in other weddings.
Japanese wedding cakes are traditionally tall and quite large. It is also believed
that number of dishes which are served at any Japanese wedding are usually odd
numbers a belief that this shall not DIVIDE the couple.

Kombu or Kelp - This is a very traditional Japanese food which is made from
broccoli, squashes, fresh ginger, garlic, mushrooms, kombu and carrots. It is a very
delicate sea food flavored clear soup which is a must during weddings. This soup
is usually served with medium sized tofu, some sesame seeds and sliced green
onions.

Kazunoko - Kazunoko is a symbol of fertility in Japan which is the main reason


why this dish is served in traditional Japanese weddings. In the Japanese
language Kazunoko refers to herring roe.
Datemaki This is another very popular dish which is served in Japanese weddings.
This is a Japanese rolled omelet which is loved during weddings. It is made from dashi
soup stock and hanpen which is white fish cake.

Japanese sushi cakes - Weddings are said to be incomplete, until there is a wedding
cake. This is made from smoked salmon, sushi rice, eggs along with other ingredients.
There is no particular style of making this cake and you can put in your own creativity to
make this cake enjoyable. This cake forms the menu item of all Japanese weddings.

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