VENUE~Inokashira Park~

もともとは自宅近くの美しい公園でパーティーをするのが

夢のプランでした。

今までもたくさんのひとがここで結婚式を挙げようと

企んできたことでしょう。

Our original plan was to have a park wedding.

There is this beautiful park right next to my home and 

a lot of people would love to have their wedding reception there.

Here in Japan, it's difficult to have a park wedding.

Why?

Because...

we can't serve food outside due to sanitary reasons,

if something happens to the person who eat the food BLAH BLAH....

if we want to have a band, neighbors would complain, BLAH BLAH BLAH.....

ところが、都立公園は条例も厳しく、

なかなか許可がおりません。

最近ではアウトドアウェディングなどと謳い、

いろいろな団体があり、

たくさんのひとが屋外でパーティーをすることに

興味をもっていますが、まだまだ日本では難しいようです。

（特に東京都！）

I kinda understand the reasons but not completely.

So I decided to do it all by myself without any event companies' help.

(so that we don't have to care about all those reasons why we can't serve food or so on.)

and I've found out that it's even difficult to get the permission to hold an event in the park.

もともと2013年の10月に結婚式を挙げようと

計画してきた私たちは、

企画書も準備し、あとは公園事務局に提出するだけのところでしたが、

2012年10月に入り、あまりの寒さと雨の多さに

公園でのテントウェディングを躊躇しました。

東京でのアウトドアウェディング、

天候的にも、文化的にも、

あまり合わないのかも…

We chose October as our wedding month

since it's not too hot or cold and it doesn't usually rain a lot but 

this year, in October, it rained a lot and was pretty cold....

Suddenly I got scared that it would rain on my wedding day and 

even we had a big tent, our guests wouldn't be happy....

This is the reason I decided not to have our wedding party in the park.

I was so close to get the permission from the park,

but I think it's more important to have a beautiful and fun wedding safely

than to make my almost-impossible-dream come true.