Indeed, the wedding industry is an institution in itself in Japan.

I didn’t undergo a cultural ritual. I happened to meet my wife at a mutual friend’s wedding. If she hadn’t met me, she would probably have signed up for those speed dating sessions and gallivanted around the city pubs until she met someone 

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Getting married in Japan

Wow, I didn't know that weddings were prepared like this in Japan. I know that Japanese culture is incredible. Did you have to do anything else or undergo a cultural ritual to meet your fiancée?

In Latin America we get married, just like women dress in white and we men in tuxedos, but with fewer taboos or cultural rites.