The Peaks Show and Hide: A Mountain Wedding in Japan, in Kosuge in May
More than five centuries ago a poet wrote that the high peaks above Kosuge show themselves and hide. They still do. A…
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Dressed for the Season: An Autumn Wedding in Japan, in the Mountains of Kosuge
In Japanese, the word for autumn leaves began as a verb. A mountain village in Yamanashi at full colour, a veil scattered…
Almost Ashore: A Japanese Garden Wedding at Tantoku in Kawagoe
For more than a century, a dry garden in Kawagoe has held a treasure ship just about to reach the shore. An…
A Destination Wedding in Hakone | Rain, Connection, and the Beauty of Imperfection
A Wedding at Hakone Retreat Surrounded by Nature and Meaning Hakone has always felt like a place where stories settle. Mist curling…
No Place They’d Rather Be: A Tokyo Garden Wedding, Then a Night in Shinjuku
A London couple, two friends and the first Tuesday after Golden Week. Vows at a historic Japanese house in Tokyo as the…
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…
The Vows They Saved: An Intimate Wedding in Kyoto Under the Maples
They married on paper in 2020 and kept the vows for Japan. Three years later, with their three daughters and his mother…
Cherry Blossoms and Sake: A Luxury Intimate Wedding in Nagano
Nagano in Spring There’s something about Nagano in spring. Mountains still capped with snow, air so crisp it feels like it’s been…
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 Tea Ceremony Wedding in Japan: Two Grooms, Old Kawagoe and a Map on the Wall
Two grooms from Northern Ireland booked a wedding in Japan while its borders were still closed. A year on, they married in…
Married by the Tide: An Okinawa Beach Wedding at Hyakuna Garan
On the south-east coast of Okinawa, where legend says the islands began, they married on a private beach below Hyakuna Garan with…