Japanese wedding starts at the Shinto shrine

Many Japanese participate in more than one religion. They often go to Shinto shrines for baptisms, weddings, and funerals, and it is acceptable for one to pray in other religions too. We have seen Christian churches; some of the teachers in my group went to a Catholic church service while we were in Tokyo.

We have seen families bringing their babies to the shrines for baptisms, and today we saw a family wedding.








I understand that they will move on to celebrate the wedding, with the bride probably changing clothes a couple more times. We saw beautiful traditional white bridal dresses and lovely blue ones too! For the party celebration, she may dress in her white bridal dress, then maybe a beautiful blue one, and then more pretty clothes!

Location:Miyajima, Japan