用英语介绍一下日本人的婚礼

Contemporary Japanese weddings are celebrated in a great variety of ways. A Japanese wedding ceremony can be Christian, Buddhist, Shinto, and non-religious styles.

Traditionally, the religious wedding ceremony is held in Shinto style at a shrine.

In a Shinto-style wedding ceremony, the bride wears a traditional wedding kimono called shiro-maku,Shiro-maku basically means white and purity.The groom is dresses in a traditional male kimono as well. Called the montsuki.

Although not required, some Japanese brides wear wigs as part of the tradition of the kimono wedding dress. The wig is heavily decorated in artificial flowers, gold combs and pearls.

A groom wears a haori on the top and a hakama on the bottom, all in black.

And the groom also dresses in a handmade overcoat which profiles his family's coat of arms.

Usually, only family members and close relatives of the couple attend the Shinto-style wedding ceremony.