'Christian' weddings not all that they seem
Ayako Hirayama and Cameron McLauchlan
Daily Yomiuri Staff Writers
Feb. 9, 2008

Kumiko Amano is not a Christian, but had her heart set on having a Christian-style wedding.
To her, a Shinto-style wedding, which she felt would be suffocated by ritual, was not an option.

Instead, Amano had her wedding at Crudesur Chapel--a facility with panoramic views of the sea on Ishigakijima, Okinawa Prefecture--in June 2006.

"Although Shinto was probably a bit closer to us in terms of religion, we put the look of our wedding first," said Amano, 30, of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. "I didn't have any qualms about having a Christian-style wedding. I'd always wanted to wear a wedding dress, so I'd been thinking about having the wedding at a chapel in a natural setting."
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