amdg and the Case of the Pre-Marital Ass-Raping

[amdg]

[kurohinge1]

Hillarious, amdg.

I feel your pain.

BTW congratulations on the impending nuptials.

Butt (:oops: ), trust me, it is only the beginning!

[Big Booger]

[quote="kurohinge1"]:rofl:

Butt (:oops: ), trust me, it is only the beginning!

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Or the end, depending on how you look at it. LOL

[FG Lurker]

Congrats on tying the knot!!

When we got married we had our ceremony in Canada. The church rental, flowers, minister etc, plus all tuxedos, buying my wife a dress that she chose herself, and ~50-person a catered reception at my parents' house (big living/dining room and huge balcony) totaled 400,000yen, including beer/wine.

Then we came back here and had Japanese-style photos done. Full wedding kimono rental and a hakama for me. We had 3 photos taken and got 3 sets made. 400,000yen -- after a big discount because my father-in-law knew the manager.

The ass-raping has only just started! You'll survive though.

[ichigo partygirl]

Congrats! Im waiting for further installments of the ass-raping with great interest.

[baka tono]

Or you could save yourself a ton of trouble by just giving that money to your finacee and breaking up with her.

Yes Im full of cyncism, good story though.

[AssKissinger]

Weddings show Japanese price fixing at their worst but remember you charge everyone ichiman or more to go the reception so with a large guest list you can recoup a lot of your money. That's why it's your civic duty to attend weddings in Japan.

Congratulations and prepare for a lot of complications. It's worth it for a great wife that you love but 'international' marriages get more and more complicated. It's like you're constantly doing a rubic's cube that keeps developing more and more sides especially when you get into visas and organizing retirement and dealing with the death of loved ones back home and preparing for your own deaths and what you'll do and where you'll live afterwards if your spouses passes first and God help those who bring children in the mix. So good luck!

[amdg]

And then I woke up in the gutter in a pool of my own vomit*.




Thanks everyone for the well-wishing! As everyone says, I’m sure my life will become more and more ‘interesting’ after marriage.

*The real conclusion to the story is coming soon.

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[urarara]

Wouldnt it be cheaper to buy your wife a plane ticket to the US or Australia and get her to BUY a wedding dress and have a dressmaker make a kimono?

[baka tono]

Wouldnt it be cheaper to buy your wife a plane ticket to the US or Australia and get her to BUY a wedding dress and have a dressmaker make a kimono?

make a kimono... cheaper...

[Jack]

We got married in Canada and Tokyo and our wedding in Tokyo was fantastic and a great experience. The cost was 3 times that in Canada but the experience and the organization was great. In Canada the limo picked me up from home and took me to the church. In Japan, I took the train alone to Meiji kinnen kan. Two oba-sans dressed me up and a coordinator was with me the whole time to tell me what to do: wait here. Bow now until I tell you to stop. Walk to your right between those tables right behind me. turnaround and bow again. Of course they had coached me how to bow properly before the whole thing started. Japanese weddings are expensive but worth it.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Japanese weddings are expensive but worth it.

Just like divorce.

[Charles]

make a kimono... cheaper...

There are even cheaper ways.

[jingai]

Will the wedding be like the one in Kill Bill?

[dimwit]

Belated congrads.

There are tons of ways to avoid the wedding planning blues. My wife and I spend about 200,000 yen in total for our wedding and we kept and price down a number of ways. I guess it depends on whether or not you have and time to arrange it yourself.

As for photos and wedding wear, we called around to photo studios and found one that rented us wedding costumes as well as doing our photography for 70,000 yen

[kamome]

Belated congrads.

There are tons of ways to avoid the wedding planning blues. My wife and I spend about 200,000 yen in total for our wedding and we kept and price down a number of ways. I guess it depends on whether or not you have and time to arrange it yourself.

As for photos and wedding wear, we called around to photo studios and found one that rented us wedding costumes as well as doing our photography for 70,000 yen

What did you do to cut costs?

[dimwit]

Well, for the reception we rented out a nice restaurant had them cater the food and charged people about 5,000 yen (as I recall) at the door in lieu of wedding presents. The immediate families of course wanted to give gifts as well, but most guests felt relieved at not having to fork over the usual 3 or 4 man to attend the wedding.

For the church, we scouted around and found a quiant little Anglician Church in the neighborhood and joined the congregation for about 6 months before the wedding. They required us to have marriage councilling before the wedding (which is probably not a terrible idea in any case) and then charged us a minimium for performing the service.

[AssKissinger]

most guests felt relieved at not having to fork over the usual 3 or 4 man to attend the wedding

WTF? I never heard of a wedding costing more 15,000 yen.

[FG Lurker]

WTF? I never heard of a wedding costing more 15,000 yen.

10,000 or 15,000 is a typical gift from a student with a part time job.

If a good friend is getting married and you are working full time then 30,000 is average I think.

If it is family, 50,000 or so.

These are just rough figures. If a family has a lot of money and the wedding is huge then the amounts are likely higher. Giving less than these amounts will make you look like a cheapass.

Not saying I agree with all this, this has just been my experience.

[Mulboyne]

20,000, once thought of as "unlucky" since it can be split evenly, appears to have become more acceptable for people who can't get away with 10,000 but find 30,000 a bit onerous.

[AssKissinger]

10,000 or 15,000 is a typical gift from a student with a part time job.

If a good friend is getting married and you are working full time then 30,000 is average I think.

If it is family, 50,000 or so.

These are just rough figures. If a family has a lot of money and the wedding is huge then the amounts are likely higher. Giving less than these amounts will make you look like a cheapass.

Not saying I agree with all this, this has just been my experience.

Tacking on more as a 'gift' is one thing but I'm talking about the raw-dawg charge.

[FG Lurker]

Tacking on more as a 'gift' is one thing but I'm talking about the raw-dawg charge.

That's not usually for the wedding though, that's for the "nijikai" party after the formal dinner.

[AssKissinger]

It might be a little different up north or maybe mine was just different.

[urarara]

In my experience good friend is 30,000 but from a couple 50,000. A family member like cousin or brother probably 100,000.

Sucks cos I got married at home and didnt get any money from all our friends. We got 150,000 from each Auntie/Uncle. 200,000 from parents and I think 250,000 from Grandma.

I know kimonos are intricate but I wonder if there would be tailors/seamstresses that could manage one with a pattern. If they can make western style wedding dresses surely they can make kimono. I guess the cost of the fabric would be pretty spastic.

Personally I dont get why so many gaijins think its cool to have a shinto wedding. I wonder what the priests think. Certainly popular though. My friends had a shinto wedding but they're costs were offset by the fact that they had a lot of family and older family friends attend. The parents on both side gave a million.

[FG Lurker]

In my experience good friend is 30,000 but from a couple 50,000. A family member like cousin or brother probably 100,000.

True, if you go as a couple more is normal for sure. Thankfully my wife only has one brother. I can't remember what we gave to him, probably around the 100,000 you mentioned. All her cousins got married before we did so that problem was very nicely avoided.

Personally I dont get why so many gaijins think its cool to have a shinto wedding. I wonder what the priests think. Certainly popular though.

Probably for the same reason that so many Japanese have "Christian" weddings... Novelty factor.