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A traditional Shinto wedding ceremony is a small, intimate affair limited to close family. It involves a purification ritual led by a Shinto priest where the couple makes vows while drinking sake. The bride and groom wear formal kimonos and exchange rings. A reception then celebrates with the couple's families, which may include traditional toasts, food, and entertainment. The newlyweds depart as guests toss rice or flowers to wish them well in their marriage.

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A traditional Shinto wedding ceremony is a small, intimate affair limited to close family. It involves a purification ritual led by a Shinto priest where the couple makes vows while drinking sake. The bride and groom wear formal kimonos and exchange rings. A reception then celebrates with the couple's families, which may include traditional toasts, food, and entertainment. The newlyweds depart as guests toss rice or flowers to wish them well in their marriage.

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Shinto Wedding

( Summarization )

A Shinto wedding ceremony is typically a small affair, limited to family, while a


reception is open to a larger group of friends.
 So, the actual ceremony will be limited to the actual ones you may consider
as family.

The Roles:
(excluding the Bride and Groom)

 Shinto priest
 Miko – Shrine Maiden
 Two representatives of each family.

The Ceremony:
 It starts on the places you’ll be in for the rest of the ceremony:

- The Shinto priest stands to the right of the altar,


- A Shrine maiden (Miko), stands on the left
- In the center, the couple and
- The closest family will behind tables that has sake and fruits.

 The priest will now purify the shrine and call the attention of benevolent
spirits (Kami).

 Then, the priest announces the beginning of the san-san-ku-do ceremony,


or "three-three-nine-times," (the core of the ceremony)
- reflecting three oaths taken three times, represented by three cups,
poured three times, and swallowed in three sips.
- It also includes three pouring’s from three cups that increase in size.

The procedure:
 The first, smallest cup, is first poured to the groom, who drinks from it
before offering it to the bride.
 The second pouring goes first to the bride, then to the groom.
 The final pouring goes from the groom first, then the bride (essentially
repeating the first pour)

 Now, the couple approaches the altar, where the groom reads his vows
while the bride listens.
- So, in these vows, you may need to mention a certain someone
(friend, family) that will take the role of a “matchmaker” (it can be a
person that made you two being together possible.) to thank them.

 After this, the families will join in the drinking of sake and say the
traditional cheer of “Kampai”.

 In the final portion of the ceremony, the priest offers Japanese evergreen
to the altar,
- Next with the couple’s offering,
- And a representative from each family to give the offering.

 And now the rings are presented.

 At this stage, there’s two ways to do the ending phase of the ceremony, so
ill mention both. (we can do both or one of them.)

- One of them is a wedding prayer, which invokes (call on) Izanagi and
Izanami (from the Japanese lore of the “First wedding”, to reflect a
harmonious balance within the marriage (There’s no mention on who
recites this, so it may land on the Priest or the Miko.)
- Another one is a sacred dance that is performed by the Miko.
The Costumes:
 Shinto brides and grooms typically wear kimono;
Examples below is for the groom:

 The bride wears either a Uchikake kimono (打ち掛け, lit. "knockout") (a


thick, colourful (mainly red), heavily-brocaded, highly-formal kimono, worn
outside the actual kimono and obi, unfastened, as a sort of overcoat)
 or a Shiromuku kimono (白無垢, lit. "white pure-innocence") (typical
colours for these kimono include red and white, colours of Shinto purity
and good luck.), oftentimes combined with a wig.

- There is also a - Or a wataboshi (綿帽子, lit.


headdress: either a "cotton hood"), an all-white
Tsunokakushi (角隠し, hood or cowl, the Japanese
lit. "horn-hiding"), a equivalent to the Western
headdress made from a marriage ceremony's bridal
rectangular piece of veil.
cloth, often made of
white silk (to match the
bride's shiromuku
kimono),
 The bride can change into one of the two clothing that is shown from the
above when it’s the reception.

 families of each sides can wear traditional kimonos. (There’s usually no


motif on the clothes, but it may depend on the couple if they want to or
not.)

If there’s any questions about some stuff, do tell.


Reception
(After the wedding)

The wedding reception is a party usually held after the completion of a marriage
ceremony as hospitality for those who have attended the wedding, (But in this
case only the family members of both sides only can attend the wedding) it’s
done to celebrate the newly wed.

There are two ways to start the reception:


 Receiving Line
- In a receiving line, newly wedded couple, the hosts, and often their
parents and any honour attendants, stand in order of precedence
(importance) and greet every guest in turn,
- They greet the first person in line (example the hosts) and if possible,
introduces themselves, then you do the same to the next in line.

 Grand Entrance
- The grand entrance might involve presenting some or all of the
wedding party, the parents, and/or the bride and groom.
- The wedding party is usually introduced by a MC (aka host), but
modifications can be made to make it an event by itself.

 Food (Just give me suggestions on this.)


 Toasts
- Before or after the food is served, toast is made by members of the
wedding party, to wish the couple well, and the groom and the bride
may cut the first slice of the cake.
- During the reception, there is also a ceremonial sake opening, where
the lid of a sake barrel is broken open and then sake is served to all
of the guests. This is called kagami-biraki (This is more the Japanese
way of toast)
- (You can include something with the likes of a speech that someone
might like to say to you both, but you decide on this.)

 Dances
- (optional) it typically opens with their “First Dance”
- but the most dance type newly wed does is waltz, can be anything
ranging from club, disco, hip hop and more.

 Entertainment
- Something to please the guests and their families (You may do this or
skip it entirely)
- (But if you’re not, do tell some things you want to do for
entertainment.)

 Departure
- Usually what happens, rice or birdseed is thrown to the new wed,
blowing bubbles or ringing small bells is some more option.
- Occasionally, the bride will throw a bouquet over her shoulder to all
the single women beside her (Whoever catches is supposed to be the
next one to get married.)
- (oh yeah, I do need to know how we’ll end the whole thing after.)

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