JAPAN WEDDING PLANNING GUIDES
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Odaiba, Tokyo
Choosing the right wedding planner
How to choose a wedding planner in Japan: look at real work, understand responsibilities, discuss costs and find people you feel comfortable planning with.
02 / Planning guideWhy wedding photography matters
Consider what wedding photography helps you remember, how to choose a photographer and what to discuss about coverage, galleries and film.
03 / Planning guideOrganizing your wedding ideas
A way to make sense of your saved references, compare what matters to each of you and turn the ideas into questions for your wedding planner.
04 / Planning guideGreen weddings in Japan
Consider practical environmental choices for a wedding in Japan, including guest travel, food, flowers, rentals and questions for your venue and suppliers.
Perhaps you are trying to choose between a city wedding and a stay somewhere further afield. Perhaps the place is settled, and you are wondering how to bring your people together there. These pages give you useful ways into those decisions, drawn from how we plan and experience weddings in Japan.
You can begin wherever your curiosity is taking you.
What could the celebration become?
A wedding with guests brings different parts of your lives into the same experience. An elopement concentrates the day around the two of you. Each can have a clear visual point of view, a meaningful ceremony and plenty to look forward to around it.
Read the page that feels closest to what you are imagining, and notice which ideas you keep discussing afterwards.
How do you choose the place?
The ceremony view is one part of the decision. Dining, the stay, privacy, access and the evening all change what a venue can offer your wedding. Our location pages explore those relationships, with real work where there is a story to share.
What does the investment cover?
Professional planning, the celebration itself and the creative work have connected but distinct roles in the budget. Understanding the scope helps you decide where you want to put your attention and investment. We explain the structure in yen and develop the proposal around the actual plans.
Who will help you create it?
A portfolio can draw you toward a studio. Understanding how its people work gives you a better sense of the partnership. Our guide to choosing a planner explores the questions worth asking about creative direction, local knowledge, communication and responsibilities.
What will your guests need?
Travel information, accommodation arrangements and a clear program help people enjoy the reason they have come. Wedding-related guest coordination is part of full planning. Personal journeys beyond the celebration can receive their own attention through Awayuki’s separate service.
The guides we share with our reply
Our private Collections and Wedding Planning guides go further into the possibilities, our thinking and how the work develops. We send them with our reply to your inquiry, so you have time to explore before a conversation together.
If availability and your ideas align with our work, we then invite you to a complimentary one-hour Zoom. You will already know more about us. We can spend that time getting to know you, following your ideas and discussing what they could become in Japan.
Learn from the celebrations themselves
A real wedding can make an idea clear in a way an explanation alone cannot. A tree-lined entrance becoming a ceremony space, or an interest in art becoming a day across Nara and Mie: these are decisions you can see in the work.
Tell us what you’re exploring