A Rainy Day Elopement in Japan, at Jinya in Cherry Blossom Season
Japan has a name for the long rain of early spring, and it comes from the yellow flowers that bloom under it.…
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Real Weddings & Elopements
She Had No Idea: A Cherry Blossom Proposal in Tokyo
He booked the flights nine months out, for a week no forecast could promise yet. Tokyo's cherry trees kept their side of…
A Wedding in Two Registers: Inside a Hakuba Winter Wedding Film
The film opens in silence. A cedar forest ceremony in falling snow. Then the music changes completely and the rest of the…
A Post-Wedding Photoshoot in Japan Among the Cherry Blossoms
Japan first met them in a snowstorm, and the Florida Keys married them in the wind. This spring their honeymoon brought them…
A Roof Like an Umbrella: An Intimate Wedding in Japan’s Mountains
Low cloud on the cedar ridges, a 150-year-old house built for exactly this weather, and the few people who mattered most, close…
Thanks for Showing Up: An Onsen Wedding in Japan
His only vow was "thanks for showing up". He'd first met her father in a hot spring, so they married at one:…
The Peaks Show and Hide: A Mountain Wedding in Japan, in Kosuge in May
More than five centuries ago a poet wrote that the high peaks above Kosuge show themselves and hide. They still do. A…
Beneath the Blossom: Two Brides in Japan at Jinya
All they wanted was blossom, and spring was taking its time making promises. Over two days at Jinya and in the gardens…
A Card for Every Guest: A Late Autumn Wedding in Japan at Jinya
A Canadian couple brought their people to Jinya with the maples at their peak, under a red Fuji at dawn. At every…
Personal Style, Fifty-Two Floors Up: An Andaz Tokyo Wedding
Married once already at home in Jakarta, they brought a second chapter to Tokyo: a welcome dinner in the hall where Japan…
Fifteen Years to the Gate: A Kyoto Elopement at the Peak of Autumn
They met as teenagers over a shared dream of Japan, and their elopement was the first time either of them set foot…