Name: What Getting Married in Japan is Really like
Uploaded: 2020-03-20T00:30:32.000Z
Duration: 11 min 49 s
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So today is kind of a special day because I'm getting married today and Michael's getting married.

We're both getting married today together like Michael and I have been planning this for a while.

I wanted to get married on January 9 so that it could be 1919.

We decided not to do it because Michael thought it was not the best of luck to get married on the ninth.

So instead, we're getting married on January 11th which was really like better luck 111 But apparently there's a luck calendar.

Do you guys have this like when you guys decided to get married when you decide to get married or you're going to have a look at a killer like it's not a big thing to me, but it was to her.

About 1919 is At least I can remember the year I remember, like, how many years been married doesn't cool of him?

Like you could carry that nine every year.

That means stuff, you know, like four is.

So I guess we're getting on a married on Nothing.

No, You're just supposed to get married in the bad day.

It's high end, which is the best day of the rest of the month.

But basically we're going to submit our marriage registration form to the cognac show, which is the city government.

Embassy and fill out a declaration of war.

We have that form and then we have to fill out The registration form is interesting because I actually had to get a signature.

And then I got to get a signature from one of her friends as witnesses.

Yo, actually, Philadelphia went to his clinic.

I've been waiting my entire life for this.

It's like probably forgot to sign a document, Michael assigning it right now.

I know waiting looks like submitted the papers, and now we have to wait about an hour.

Yeah, I think it's a little bit more complicated because a lot of documentation is in English because on my side, and so they have to check all the translations.

All right, so I think a little bit more waiting, I think.

Just I mean, I can't like, just like you have been for some people.

4 50 if you present 35% divorce rate in Japan and 50% divorce rate in the states E for may.

So, like, while we were sitting and waiting for the guys like to confirm our marriage, we started to discuss, like, like ceremonies here in Japan and like, what we're going to do about the ceremony and we're kind of we're still up in the air one because we just don't know what we wanna do, and two were trying to, like, figure out the cause because we don't want to spend too much money on a wedding, right, And there's like there's several ways to do it.

I don't think there's Maybe there's a traditional way.

But like I think nowadays, it doesn't really matter.

Usually, whoever is getting married is the long is paying.

Traditionally, the woman's parents pays, uh, husband side Hey, friend, early for something else.

But I think I think the reason being is, like traditionally, like you're supposed to give away the bride and usually like way want the husband to take care of their daughter.

So she's like entering into his family honor like people from the U.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I I think nowadays that's not so much the case.

It's really depends on the financial situation, but I think that that's how it waas e Nowadays we like from what I heard from my friends, they tried to pay with what they have their parents support If they ask you something, I think it really depends on the games.

This maybe, like my friends are not really traditional.

Running's air just really expensive in general.

And I think we're both in the same mindset.

If we're gonna spend that much money for a wedding, we'd rather just, like, go on a vacation and, like, use that money Thio Bye house.

Or I feel like even let's say we're just gonna do, like a honeymoon.

Spend that ready money to go to honeymoon.

It's still not gonna be amount for reading like quitting, Let's say, like wedding would probably cost like some back in three New Union three, like roughly $30,000.

And usually guests are supposed to pay like a lot of money.

So you used to spend like Google's anymore.

So yes, one thing about Japan and it's something that's really that was really new to me when I first came to Japan, is if you attend a wedding, I think like a rough amount that you pay about 30,000 yen which is roughly 300,000 minimum.

If your friend OK, which is roughly around $300 a little less than $300 to attend the wedding.

And that's like white a lot of bit of money, right?

Yeah, but like that's actually like that usually takes up like up to half for, like, 2/3 of what?

If they have a lot of guests, then that's actually one way that they're able to make their money back like it adds up once.

If you have a lot of guests and they're all paying like between 300 to 4 to $500 per head, that's quite a lot of money.

You could have like a pretty extravagant wedding with all those guests.

That's why some Japanese people have, like, these big weddings.

The one thing for me is especially around like this age as you get older.

I have a lot of friends that are getting married around this time, and I've got invited to quite a bit of weddings.

I'm just like I don't know if I want to spend that money to go to.

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