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My friend Kristen, was telling me about her Japanese friend who is a go-between. She makes her living matching and introducing men and women to one another. Because of this, she is invited to a lot of weddings. She was invited to the weddings of a couple she introduced. The bride's family owns a present shop. (In Japan it is customary for the guest to give money to the couple and for the couple to give really nice gifts to the guests i.e. a rice cooker, a watch, dishes, etc.) This family supplies gifts to the wedding chapels, which supply the gifts to the marrying couple- it's part of a package deal: ceremony, gifts, and party after, and possibly the honeymoon accommodations. Anyway, because this family is a supplier, they could not choose which chapel the couple should be married in. Rather that have the wedding chapels lose face because one chapel was chosen instead of another, the couple was having 3 weddings over a 3-day period! What I'd like to know is why they didn't opt to get married in another town, or at one that they didn't supply to. The three weddings must have cost them a fortune! And the guests must have paid a lot of money too. Valerie Straayer |