How to Throw a Japanese Announcement Party

By K Mueller Stroup

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After reading this article, the reader will learn how to throw a traditional Japanese "Announcement Party."

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

  • French or Chinese or Japanese-style food
  • Gifts for the visitors - such as tableware, and confectineries or a sea bream.
  • A couple called a "Nakoudo"
  • Main guests
  • Friends
  • Musical instruments

Step1
A couple who is getting married, holds this party in which they serve a full-course dinner of French Cuisine or Chinese or Japanese-style food to all of the "visitors."
Step2
The couple also presents the guests with gifts of tableware, confectioneries or a sea bream. The sea bream is a symbol of happiness in Japan.
Step3
A couple called a "Nakoudo," (which in the olden days, were used to find a suitable partner for either the man or woman at a ceremony called an "Omiai") and main guests make speeches. The Nakoudo would typically be what we would refer to as a "busybody" old couple. Typically, friends of the couple will entertain with either a song or a musical instrument.
Step4
The main events of the party include the couple cutting a big wedding cake and lighting candles on each of the tables.

Tips & Warnings

  • Until recent years, the fashionable "Announcement Party," was mostly for show and the wedding cakes were large plastic imitations and the couple frequently rode in on a gondola with smoke and dry ice.
  • Since a more simple marriage has been stylish recently, the secondary wedding party (Announcement Party) has become more popular. The couple now, typically, likes to spend more money on a new house and travel than on a flamboyant marriage ceremony.
  • The price for an Announcement Party is typically several million yen, half of which is provided as a congratulatory gift from visitors.

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on 4/29/2008 Awesome :)

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on 3/23/2008 Very informative, thank you!

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