{"id":705,"date":"2010-08-09T22:20:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T13:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/?p=705"},"modified":"2010-08-09T22:20:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T13:20:42","slug":"why-a-western-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/09\/why-a-western-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Western wedding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seiyaku.com\/seiyaku\/en\/western-wedding.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-717\" title=\"Western wedding in Japan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/WesternWedding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/WesternWedding.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/WesternWedding-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When I tell people that I&#8217;m officiating weddings on the weekend, a question I&#8217;ve been asked a number of times is &#8220;Why do Japanese people like &#8216;Western-style&#8217; weddings?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The biggest reason is &#8220;Because it&#8217;s cool,&#8221; but if you&#8217;re interested in reading more about it, I just happened onto the seiyaku.com web site, which does a fabulous job explaining it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seiyaku.com\/seiyaku\/en\/western-wedding.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.seiyaku.com\/seiyaku\/en\/western-wedding.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their description is pretty accurate for the ceremonies I perform, too- which makes sense, because Japanese people like to do things the same way everyone else does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I tell people that I&#8217;m officiating weddings on the weekend, a question I&#8217;ve been asked a number of times is &#8220;Why do Japanese people like &#8216;Western-style&#8217; weddings?&#8221; The biggest reason is &#8220;Because it&#8217;s cool,&#8221; but if you&#8217;re interested in reading more about it, I just happened onto the seiyaku.com web site, which does a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}