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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Japan Was the Logical Choice: An Autumn Elopement in Japan
Japan had been part of their relationship from the beginning, after a Fushimi Inari photograph started one of their earliest conversations. Years…
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…
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 Red Thread Wedding Ceremony at Mt Fuji, in Cherry Blossom Season
They asked for four things: the cherry blossom, Mt Fuji, the shrine and the string. A Mt Fuji elopement built around a…
Full Faith in Sake Country: A Niigata Elopement
They gave us an open map and one sentence: "We put our full faith in you!" Their Niigata elopement was a first…
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…
Fifteen Years to the Gate: A Kyoto Elopement at the Peak of Autumn
They met as teenagers over a shared dream of Japan, and their elopement was the first time either of them set foot…
A Day Without the Mountain: A Mt Fuji Elopement in the Rain
Bashō wrote that the day you can't see Fuji is the one worth having. A Mt Fuji elopement in rain, wind and…
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…
Our Spot: An Arasaki Park Elopement on the Miura Peninsula
They met in Japan, fell in love here, and married before she left, on a stretch of the Miura Peninsula they already…