This week’s guest post comes from Melissa Suzuno, who shares about her experience being the white bride of a Japanese man, at a traditional Japanese wedding ceremony! She writes: We pulled up to the entrance of the shrine, the driver pausing only briefly to navigate an ancient tree trunk that had been split in two to form an awe-inspiring entryway to a steep flight of stairs leading up to the main place of worship. Looking up, I saw splashes of bright pink flowers framing the stairs, and a gorgeous shidare zakura (weeping cherry blossom) in the courtyard of the shrine. Everything was even more perfect than I could have imagined. My heart was pounding as I gingerly stepped out of the taxi. Yoshida-san, my attendant, rushed to my side to help me gather up the excess fabric of my kimono, and reminded me once again to grasp it with four fingers on one side, thumb on the other, everything hidden beneath the heavy layers of embroidered white silk. I glanced over at Hayato, looking every part the samurai in his hakama (what I like to call a “man kimono”), who gave me a stoic nod and slight smile as [...]
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