Regional correspondent

KYOTO -- More than ever before, Japanese couples are opting to say "I do" and "Until death do us part" in established and specially constructed Christian churches around the globe -- sometimes in the most unexpected places.

AWB White Weddings, with a customer base that is 95 percent Japanese, is the largest wedding management company in New Zealand and Australia. Last year off Broadwater on the Gold Coast of Australia, it built what it is touting as the world's only floating church.