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:…
Japanese Wedding Food: Kaiseki, Sake and Feeding Every Guest
Japan's most formal tea meal is named after hunger. What's really served at a wedding in Japan, which rituals at the table…
The Best, the Best, the Best: Wedding Vendor Directories and Why We Don’t Pay to Be in Them
Many wedding vendor directories rank whoever pays to be there, and couples rarely know. Why we paid for listings when we started…
A Boy in Lane Four
Four golds, one family, forty-four years. From a Brisbane footpath in 1982 to a Glasgow grandstand in 2026, this is what it's…
The Duke Wears a Crown
Glasgow between the races: a duke crowned in traffic orange, an Oasis pilgrimage, and a city with seventy-four nations on the pavement.…
The Air in the Room
Why the whole world crosses oceans to stand in crowds, and why Glasgow is the city that understands it best. There’s a…