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An Intimate Plum Blossom Wedding in Japan at Jinya

Japan named its current era after a dinner under a plum tree. Late in March, at Jinya in Tsurumaki Onsen, a couple…

Two graphic designers made room for a whole city in their wedding. There was a first look on the pavement, a flower…

A Tokyo garden wedding at a house built in 1920, a morning floating above Shinjuku at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, a shrine…

They asked for somewhere deep in nature, quiet and completely still. In the mountain village of Kosuge, in the week the old…

Japan had been part of their relationship from the beginning, after a Fushimi Inari photograph started one of their earliest conversations. Years…

There are days at Mt Fuji when you never see Mt Fuji. A surprise proposal in a February whiteout, a lake to…

They arrived with a simple wish: Fuji, cherry blossoms, vows and photographs. The day opened into sunrise, a shrine blessing, hōtō at…

They gave themselves a city morning, a mountain wedding and time to enjoy both. Between Kyoto’s immense temple gate and a small…

They said their vows in Jinya's garden, beside the camphor tree Hayao Miyazaki played under as a child. The garden keeps what…

The same flight north, a short head start and a flurry of messages between the trees and his phone. A proposal at…

They could have gone anywhere, and they chose the country they keep returning to. Two days at Mt Fuji and in Tokyo,…