A Garden of Their Own: A Nipponia Elopement in the Plum Rain
They asked for somewhere deep in nature, quiet and completely still. In the mountain village of Kosuge, in the week the old…
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Ready When He Was: A Cherry Blossom Proposal at Hirosaki Castle
The same flight north, a short head start and a flurry of messages between the trees and his phone. A proposal at…
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…
A Tokyo Autumn Elopement, With Their Own Songs on the Koto
A Texas couple, a private garden in Tokyo at the turn of December, and the songs they love, rearranged for an instrument…
Silk on the Inside: A Saiko Iyashi no Sato Nenba Wedding at Mt Fuji
They planned to marry beneath the torii that frames Mt Fuji. The weather had other ideas, and the day moved to a…
A Small Wedding in Japan at Jinya, as the Cherry Blossom Opened
Late March at Jinya, in the five days Japan's old calendar names for the first cherry blossom. A grandmother, a baby of…
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…