Thirteen Strings and a Dance Floor: A Destination Wedding Weekend in Japan
Two house music lovers from the Bay Area brought their people to Japan for a weekend and asked its oldest instruments to…
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The Whole Mountain: A Mount Fuji Wedding Photoshoot, After the Wedding
Already married, they came to Mount Fuji with nothing left to organise. A torii built for honouring the mountain from afar, silver…
A House for Arriving: Pre-Wedding Photos in a Traditional Japanese House in Tokyo
A merchant from the far north built a house in Tokyo in 1920 and asked a shrine carpenter to make it. A…
A Bamboo Forest at Night: Vows in the Rain in Tochigi
The rain stayed all day, and by evening they wanted to speak their vows beneath it. At Wakayama Farm, the forest slowly…
A Nagano Winter Wedding: Time Enough to Be Together
A geologist, his partner and their far-flung friends gathered in the Japanese mountains, in a house whose history was bound to the…
Hanagumori at Taiseki-ji: A Buddhist Temple Wedding in Japan
Seven moments mattered enough for the couple to name them before the wedding, and every one involved another person. Around those moments…
The Way In Became the Aisle: A Wedding at Jinya, Tsurumaki Onsen
Jinya, in Tsurumaki Onsen, began as a villa for receiving guests, on ground that was once a samurai's camp. This couple were…
A Hakone Forest Wedding, With Everyone They Call Home
Their lives had taken them through several countries; in Hakone, the people from those lives finally met. The forest held the ceremony,…
Hakone Engagement Photos at First Light, and a Small Fuji Waiting in Tokyo
He planned to propose somewhere quiet in Hakone. The ring arrived early, and so did the question. So Hakone became the celebration:…
A Piedmont Driving Club Wedding: Faith, Family and the Hour the Rain Held
We’d known this family long before the wedding invitations, and photographed the groom’s parents celebrating their marriage in the Caribbean. In Atlanta,…
A Four Seasons Otemachi Wedding: A Journey Worth Making
Two of her oldest friends had travelled Tokyo with her nearly a decade earlier. They came back as her bridesmaids, among seventy-three…