REAL STORY

"I was excited when I, as the planner, presented the visual sheet at our second meeting. The original wedding date, May 23rd, was Love Letter Day. But then the COVID-19 situation became increasingly serious, so we changed the date to May 22nd, a year later. Even after a year, the situation has not settled down at all, and I'm sure they must have had a lot of worries, such as whether it was okay to hold the wedding in these circumstances and whether everyone would come..."

I think it had more to do with COVID, but we didn't have any opportunities to get together with friends regularly or in large groups, so I wanted to have an opportunity to get together with friends we hadn't seen in a while, like a class reunion, so I think we chose a lot of friends.

Since we were gathering only people who each of us considers important in our lives, I wanted it to be a day where everyone could smile. I wanted everyone to feel grateful and hopeful for the future, and because there aren't many days where everyone could get together and laugh, I wanted everyone to spend the day like that. I wanted it to be a time that everyone could enjoy.

The planner suggested that we write letters to everyone. We had written each other letters quite often since we were dating, so we wrote them. Actually, we chose quite large paper, so it was quite difficult (laughs). I've been to a lot of people's weddings up until now, but I didn't think many people had written letters on this size, so I was in a rush to write them a week before the ceremony. But I put my heart into each and every one of them, and I was able to write while thinking about what had happened up until then, so I think that was conveyed properly.

We were always long distance while we were dating, so we didn't have many opportunities to meet, so I wanted to be able to give letters to each other when we could. We didn't make any special promises on birthdays or anniversaries, but we often exchanged letters. I felt that it was nice to be able to express my feelings in writing. So, I wanted to express my gratitude to the guests who were coming to our wedding by writing it in my own handwriting, so I worked hard to write them.

Most of all, I feel glad that I did it. It was postponed for a year due to COVID-19 and couldn't be held in the way that we had originally planned, but I think that without this opportunity, I wouldn't have been able to express my gratitude, so I'm glad that I did it. I'd like to do it one more time.

The first feeling that comes to mind is, "Ah, that was fun." I'm glad we all got to meet.

When I look back at the video, it brings me back to my roots and makes me want to express my gratitude to my family and friends more.

We've known each other for a long time, so I thought I knew a lot about him, but on the day, I met some of his friends for the first time. I got to see his face as he spent time with his friends, and I got to see how much he was loved by his friends. It made me want to cherish the people important to him. His family was also very close, and seeing everyone looking at him with congratulations made me want to cherish this family too. Seeing the faces of the guests who cherished him made me feel glad that I did it.

I had vaguely decided that "I want to have my wedding here" and "Who I want to invite", but when I was asked "Why do you want to invite those people?", I remembered each of them one by one. It's times like these that I feel grateful to people and feel that they are important. He also had a similar realization during the meeting. So I think it was a meeting that made us realize what is important in our future lives together, without being limited by the wedding.

I'm close to my family and relatives, so we have a lot of family gatherings. She's always there to support us and enjoy those gatherings. I think that was something she was able to understand through our wedding.

When we were talking about what kind of guests he wanted to invite, his first priority was his family, but through our personal meetings, I learned that each and every person is a big part of his life. I also felt a strong sense of gratitude towards my family, and I felt that I wanted to rely on them as a daughter and spend time with them at the same distance.

I was so happy. As soon as the ceremony ended, I received so many messages. I read them from the moment it ended and enjoyed them. The messages didn't stop until midnight. I really felt that I enjoyed the whole day of the wedding. It's rare to hear how you felt after the wedding. I felt that the guests were sending their feelings in real time. They weren't written on a different day, but were probably writing down their feelings as they went home after the ceremony. I was really happy to hear the raw words that seemed to express what they were feeling at the time, rather than sorting out their feelings. So I really felt that it was good that we wrote letters to the guests and gave them to them.

Due to the influence of COVID-19, all our plans for the next few years were scrapped, and when we wondered if we wanted to postpone it, we thought that we would still be a married couple even if we didn't have a wedding, so we considered not having a wedding. We talked about a lot of things at that time, and I gained a lot from the preparation period. I had heard him say, "I want to have a wedding as a proper way to draw a line in front of the people who are important to me," so I wanted to make that happen. As expected, when the day arrived, I realized that so many people were blessing us, and although I had intended to cherish them until now, I realized once again that I couldn't imagine a life without them. I was glad that we were able to create such a place. It was a very long preparation period, but I think that spending it together deepened the love between the two of us and between the guests.