The Truth About Destination Weddings in Japan: A Love Letter and a Reality Check
There are blog posts we plan. And then there are blog posts that demand to be written. This one is the latter.…
The Flow State | Why Losing Yourself in Your Craft Might Just Save Your Soul
When Time Disappears You know the feeling. The one where hours vanish and you haven’t blinked since coffee. You’re not sure what…
A Hakone Proposal in the Thickest Fog We’ve Ever Seen
The plan was Mt Fuji at sunrise. The morning brought fog so thick you could barely see a few centimetres ahead. He…
The Art of Holding Space: What We Really Do
There’s a moment at every wedding we feel so present and so connected. It might be when a mother exhales as her…
The First Wedding in Our Bamboo Grove: An Elopement in Tochigi
In June 2022, with Japan still closed to visitors, two people serving with the US Navy married in a bamboo grove that…
A Jinya Ryokan Elopement, From the Garden to Mt Fuji at Dusk
They sailed to Japan from Australia and gave their elopement the whole day: a ryokan garden in Hadano, words read aloud in…
A Mt Fuji Tea Field Elopement, Two Weeks After Japan Reopened
They planned for a country that was closed, held two dates, and lost their first venue to a typhoon. Then Japan opened…
An Elopement in the Clouds: A Private Villa Wedding in the Heart of Nara
Somewhere between the sacred mountains of southern Japan, where the mist settles in the valleys and the quiet is very old, they…
Snow Country Vows: A Snow Elopement in Japan, in Niigata
They asked for snow and got all of it. An Australian couple's secret snow elopement in Niigata's snow country: their own vows…
Rottnest Channel Swim 2025
A Little Family Story of Endurance, Salt and Siblings Some people spend their Saturdays at a café. Others at the markets. (Others…
Ten Winters, Then the Wind: A Niseko Wedding
For more than ten years they came to Niseko every winter to snowboard, and he proposed there. They married there in October,…