Today is a big day. Today Wakana is off for her first day in her new job. It is the end of five years of "vacation". Of course, most of that time she was in school earning her master's degree and learning English but there was little pressure on her most of the time.

On Saturday she had her orientation. She is working for a company that sets up and coordinates wedding ceremonies for tourists. Weddings are a big business on Guam. Every hotel has at least one chapel and there are other chapels scattered around Tumon. Two Lovers Point is a very popular place for wedding pictures perched as it is two hundred feet over the ocean and overlooking hotel row.

Her company coordinates wedding at the two chapels. They conduct one wedding an hour all day every day. They will hold seventeen weddings today in the two chapels. Her job is to make sure everything is set, the makeup looks good and the clothing is straight, the minister and the chauffer and the other elements are in place to make it a proper celebration for the happy couple.

I think it is a funny job for a woman who could offer little or no input for her own wedding.

Anyway, she is excited and, I think, a little nervous. She has never worked in an office full of women before. She has never had a job like this before. And she has never had to wear a uniform before.

She has to wear black. We were laughing about her looking like she was in mourning. Black slacks, black blouse, and black shoes. Certainly nobody will mistake her for being part of the wedding party.

And now, for the funniest part of the whole story. When talking with her new boss she mentioned she was married to an Amerika-jin. He became very interested and wanted to know if I would like to act as the minister for the weddings. A license is not necessary as all the couples are already formally married by the time they leave Japan. The company only provides a ceremony, not the official sanction of the minister/priest. That would be the funniest job I've ever held.