Getting married on Monday had all the romance of applying for a tax return. Form after form was filled in and the only tricky point was when they tried to take my birth certificate from me. One difference was that they congratulated us before and after.
Magically one of our neighbours was in the same office. Her full time occupation is seemingly visiting onsen. More congratulations and much bowing ensued. Yet after it had all finished, I had to ask Reiko if we were married yet. It seemed so anticlimactical.
Simon, did you apply for the larger size marriage certificate? Not many people, even Japanese, know about it, but I highly recommend it – it’s handwritten (to an extent) and nice to frame or mount in a (large) album/portfolio.
You think you’re excited now, wait until the honeymoon!..
Wait, that doesn’t sound quite right.
No honeymoon. It was back to teaching the next day
si, let me congratulate you on being the first of the “band of brothers” (kind of….) for getting “married”
seriously dude, congrats on the whole thing, its bloody fantastic news, although the whole “teaching the next day” thing does make it more anti-climatic and un-romantic (along with the whole it-seemd-like-filing-tax-returns thing)! Still, the proper ceremony later in the year should make up for it – and i hope after that you will actually go on a honeymoon! Cant wait to be there for the _proper_ ceremony in september!
Congratulations to you and Reiko, the ceremony may of been anti climatic, but i would put good money on the rest of your future together not being same!
shang chi
Simon