OLD-FASHIONED RIVERSIDE WEDDINGS REVIVED NEAR TOKYO茨城 “嫁入り舟”に祝福

Visitors to a riverside garden near Tokyo enjoyed an old-fashioned wedding ceremony procession on a boat amid irises in full bloom. The Suigo Itako Iris Festival is being held in Itako City in Ibaraki Prefecture. The revived tradition has become a highlight of the annual festival. On Saturday, a boat carrying a bride set out as visitors watching from the riverside applauded. The area is surrounded by lakes and rivers where boats were once used as a daily form of transportation. Until the 1960s, brides in white wedding kimonos could be seen in rowboats heading to meet their bridegrooms.

(Visitor) “The ceremony was so beautiful. I was moved to tears.”

(Miyamoto Michiko / Bride) “It was a valuable experience that so many people congratulated us. It was a very happy day.”

◆procession　行列、行進   

◆highlight　呼び物、目玉   

◆be moved to tears by　～に感動して涙が出る

Daily Vocabulary(2024/06/19）

32471.get split up(はぐれる） to divide people into different groups, or to be divided into groups 
If we get split up, let's meet up here at four. 
32472.get dark(暗くなる ） if someone tells you something, they communicate information, a story, their feelings etc to you  

Let's go home before it gets dark.

32473.Are you gonna be OK？(大丈夫そうですか）

 Are you gonna be OK？. 

32474.bio break  (トイレ休憩 ）American English informal a period of time when you stop working in order to go to the toilet 
 Would you like to take a bio break at this rest stop?  
32475.potty (おまる）a container used by very young children as a toilet 

Do you need to go potty？