Your discussing a typical Japanese wedding, Brett, forcefully brings home again the fact that you married a remarkable woman.

I have a friend in Juneau who, about 10 years ago, married a Japanese woman. They have a little girl and they want her to be bi-lingual. Hizuko has a condo in Tokyo so for several months at a time they travel to Japan where Lisa, the little girl, goes to school. It is working out very well. John loves it there- especially because there are so many trains there. There aren't any in Juneau. :) He says that sitting high up in Hizuko's condo he can watch the trains all day long.