The wedding day...October 4th. 
6:30AM We groggily get up and he shuffles off to shower while I take a little extra nap. I wasn't allowed to eat much for breakfast, so I had oatmeal and hot tea.
7:00AM-ish We head over to the hotel to pick up my mom and Yukari.
7:35AM We arrive at the wedding place.
8:00AM We meet the make up/dressing people. I put on a robe that was low in the front and back and my tabi (Japanese socks). They put my hair in curlers and start doing my make up. Luckily the make up lady did a very natural look, but she put fake eye lashes on me. Later I heard that it's the norm to wear them. No one told me, so I was a little surprised when she started putting them on me. By that time my mom had come in and started taking pictures... I guess I'll post some later. They took out the curlers and commenced the hair dressing. First the front sections of my hair were separated out and the rest pulled back. Two heavy braids of 2 foot long fake hair were then pinned to my sensitive scalp. The left over pieces of my hair in the front were then poofed up with brown sponge like spacers and made to look katsura-ish. Katsura is the big wig that Japanese women usually wear at their weddings. After that was all set, they stuck sticks and ornaments in the hair. This was the point that my neck and shoulders started hurting from the weight.
The kimono was next. But first, the last bathroom break. Once fully kimonoed, it's hard to go. First up there was the kimono bra. What makes it different from a regular bra is that it's purpose is to make you flat. But you can't use a regular sports bra because it has to be able to be put on without going over your head. On top of that was the under kimono robe with a small obi (belt). They then used cotton batting to fill in all of the cracks and crevasses in my shoulders and back. They just stuck it to the kimono in pieces. The under kimono went on next, all white of course. And then the actual kimono went on top of that with a white obi tie intricately in the back. Alas we were not done...
6:30AM We groggily get up and he shuffles off to shower while I take a little extra nap. I wasn't allowed to eat much for breakfast, so I had oatmeal and hot tea.
7:00AM-ish We head over to the hotel to pick up my mom and Yukari.
7:35AM We arrive at the wedding place.
8:00AM We meet the make up/dressing people. I put on a robe that was low in the front and back and my tabi (Japanese socks). They put my hair in curlers and start doing my make up. Luckily the make up lady did a very natural look, but she put fake eye lashes on me. Later I heard that it's the norm to wear them. No one told me, so I was a little surprised when she started putting them on me. By that time my mom had come in and started taking pictures... I guess I'll post some later. They took out the curlers and commenced the hair dressing. First the front sections of my hair were separated out and the rest pulled back. Two heavy braids of 2 foot long fake hair were then pinned to my sensitive scalp. The left over pieces of my hair in the front were then poofed up with brown sponge like spacers and made to look katsura-ish. Katsura is the big wig that Japanese women usually wear at their weddings. After that was all set, they stuck sticks and ornaments in the hair. This was the point that my neck and shoulders started hurting from the weight.
The kimono was next. But first, the last bathroom break. Once fully kimonoed, it's hard to go. First up there was the kimono bra. What makes it different from a regular bra is that it's purpose is to make you flat. But you can't use a regular sports bra because it has to be able to be put on without going over your head. On top of that was the under kimono robe with a small obi (belt). They then used cotton batting to fill in all of the cracks and crevasses in my shoulders and back. They just stuck it to the kimono in pieces. The under kimono went on next, all white of course. And then the actual kimono went on top of that with a white obi tie intricately in the back. Alas we were not done...
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