Groom Gets Cold Feet and Sets Venue on Fire
I don't know how we missed this one girls, but boy do I have a scandalous bridal news item to share with you today. Apparently last week, 39-year-old Japanese groom-to-be Tatsuhiko Kawata set fire to his wedding venue in order to get out of the ceremony. Pause for reaction… say what!?!
In the early morning hours, the office worker started a blaze at a hotel in Yamanashi Prefecture (90 minutes outside of Tokyo) where he was to marry his fiancé later that day. He didn’t do as much damage as he’d hoped. The fire was quickly contained, guests staying at the hotel were evacuated, and there were no injuries reported. The couple had planned to wed in front of 80 of their closest friends and family members. Kawata wasn’t arrested until he suddenly called off the wedding and started behaving in a suspicious manner. He later confessed to police.
“I thought if I set a fire I wouldn’t have to go through with the wedding,” he’s said to have told police.
Some reports are saying he wanted out because he was still secretly married to another woman, but that has not been confirmed. Either way, there are no words for how wrong this groom-gone-bad’s actions were. Shameful! Thoughts, ladies?
photo: Chung Li Photography
Sarah is absolutely right. The Asian culture is very unlike our own, in many ways, and, like she said, it probably would have been a much worse situation for him if he had just called the wedding off. However, it is still a chicken way to break off a wedding, and she is definitely lucky in that she found out BEFORE the fact that he is a scuzzball.
Also, if he is in fact already married, then he is an uber-scuzzball.
on March 10, 2009 at 9:03 AM