37 Frames Journal | Japan Wedding Planners

A Nara Wedding for Two, With Kyoto Before and Mountains Beyond

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,…

She knew about the photoshoot. She didn't know about the proposal. Months later she asked us to go back to the shore…

Two house music lovers from the Bay Area brought their people to Japan for a weekend and asked its oldest instruments to…

Already married, they came to Mount Fuji with nothing left to organise. A torii built for honouring the mountain from afar, silver…

A merchant from the far north built a house in Tokyo in 1920 and asked a shrine carpenter to make it. A…

The rain stayed all day, and by evening they wanted to speak their vows beneath it. At Wakayama Farm, the forest slowly…

A geologist, his partner and their far-flung friends gathered in the Japanese mountains, in a house whose history was bound to the…

Seven moments mattered enough for the couple to name them before the wedding, and every one involved another person. Around those moments…