37 Frames Journal | Japan Wedding Planners

2025: The Year That Asked Everything

A reflection on motion, meaning, and the memories we chose to keep in 2025.

In Japanese, the word for autumn leaves began as a verb. A mountain village in Yamanashi at full colour, a veil scattered…

No. 365 Wedding Planning in Japan December 10, 2025

There are venues in this world that have beauty. And then there are venues that have possibility. This particular ryokan sits quietly…

It’s just flipped to December 8 here in Japan. That means it’s birthday celebration time!!! So here we go… There are people…

No. 363 Inspiration & Stories December 7, 2025

There are movies that entertain you. And then there are movies that name you. For us, that was Thelma & Louise. A…

For two nights in November, Jinya belonged to seventy-one people from around the world. A welcome party with lobster curry and a…

Two rockers from Salt Lake City chose us because of one quiet photograph. Their Tokyo engagement photos ran from the year's first…

We arrived home at 2am to find soup and a gin advent calendar at our door. Gifts from friends who knew we…

No. 359 Wedding Planning in Japan November 30, 2025

"Trust the process" is more than a mantra. It's the foundation of creating extraordinary destination weddings. A candid reflection on the chaos,…

There are goodbyes you brace for… the ones you mark on calendars, the ones you prepare speeches for. And then there are…

No. 357 Wedding Planning in Japan November 28, 2025

Charles Dickens once wrote: “The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved…