The Cicadas Came Anyway: Planning an Outdoor Wedding in Japan
Where an outdoor wedding in Japan can happen, who has to say yes, what each season brings, and how we plan through…
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Can I Marry in a Private Garden in Kyoto?
Yes, if you know where to go. Kyoto's private gardens open by introduction, the way so much of Kyoto does. How that…
A Nipponia Kosuge Wedding: What We Give of Ourselves
Two American chefs living in Hong Kong brought their people to a mountain village in Japan, then sat down to be cared…
The Place That Started It All: A Tokyo Garden Wedding
A Tokyo garden wedding at a house built in 1920, a morning floating above Shinjuku at the Park Hyatt Tokyo, a shrine…
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…
When Vision Rewrites Tradition: The Ceremony Path That Changed Destination Weddings in Japan
There are venues in this world that have beauty. And then there are venues that have possibility. This particular ryokan sits quietly…
A Luxury Japan Elopement on the Izu Peninsula
There are places in Japan that feel written by the wind. And then there’s Izu, where poetry meets coastline. A peninsula of cliffs…
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…
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…