Japanese Trendy Weddings

This is the FIFTH part of my presentation☆☆☆☆☆

Now, let’s do something fun! I will introduce you to five trendy wedding items. Let’s imagine you are a bride-to-be (or groom-to-be.) And, please vote for the one you want for your wedding! Let’s get started!

Welcome to Keiko's wedding planning office! Congratulations, you will get married! I will show you the Japanese trendiest wedding items. Which one do you like most?
(In advance, OF COURS these items are not my original!! All of items and pictures belong to the Take and Give. Needs, the Japanese Wedding Planning company. All of pictures, except for the picture of the bouquet toss, are from here: http://www.tgn.co.jp/index.html )

First, this is “the time capsule.” This capsule has to be opened ten years later. You can put anything in the capsule, like Polaroid photos of your wedding, letters to yourselves ten years later, and your future children. Or maybe your wedding day’s newspaper. During the ceremony or reception, you lock the capsule, and give the key to your dearest person like your parents, your aunt, or your close friend, someone you will keep company with at least ten years. Ten years later, he or she has to give the key back to to give the key back to you and then, you can finally open the time capsule!

Second is “the dream child!” Because of computer graphic technology, you can predict the faces of your children-to-be and you can show their faces to the guests during the reception! From the top, the right is you, the left is your groom, and below, they are your dream boy and your dream girl! (picture) Don’t worry, you can choose the details of your children’s faces! If you don’t like your husband’s thin eyes, you can put your eyes to their faces!

Third, “The Weight Dolls.” Instead of flowers, now this is the most popular presents to parents. These stuffed dolls’ weights are the same as you and your groom were when you were born. When your parents hold them, they remember how tiny you were and how you have grown up! I bet your mom would cry at this moment! You can choose “the weight mickey”, “the weight pooh”, or "the weight teddy bear!! "

This is the fourth. (The right picture) What do you think this is? This is broccoli. Have you ever heard of a bouquet toss? After the wedding ceremony, a bride tosses a bouquet to her friends who are single. (The bouquet toss's picture is from here: http://www.weddingvillage.jp/tachikawa/happy/vol2.html ) The one who catches the bouquet will get married next. This is a western traditional wedding event. But…it doesn’t have to be a bouquet and a girl! A bouquet and a broccoli sound similar. Don’t you think so? Therefore, you, the groom will toss a “broccoli bouquet” to your friends who are single! The one who catches this will be the next groom, and broccoli is good for his health, too!

This is the last one. (The left) What is it? Yes, this is a panel! This would be you and your groom’s picture and this is life-sized! Your guests can take a picture with your life-sized panel before a wedding reception starts!

So, please decide on just one for your wedding: a time capsule, dream child, weight bear, broccoli toss, or your life-sized panel. Have you decided?

I also asked my audience of my presentation. I think about two-third of them were Americans, and rest of them were from another contries. Which one do you think was the most popular? The answer was... The time capsule! From the most popular one to the least, the time capsule, weght dolls, broccoli toss, life-sized panel, and dream child. I thought the dream child would become the most popular one, but the reality was opposite! If I were a bride-to-be? I would take...let's see...broccoli toss! because it's funny, and cheapest♪