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Writing about weddings in Japan?Ask the people who plan them.

We plan, photograph and film destination weddings across Japan from our home in Tokyo. If you’re writing about why people now travel to celebrate, the families who travel together, or the places that host them, we’re glad to talk.

Tracey and Dee, the founders of 37 Frames.
Tracey and Dee

Who you’ll speak with

  • Dee Green, destination wedding planner in Japan and co-founder. Planning and production, hotels and venues, and what it takes to host a family that has flown in from across the world: the pace, the food, the ceremony, and how Japanese custom becomes part of a wedding for couples from overseas.

  • Tracey Taylor, co-founder, photography and film. How weddings are photographed and filmed, and what couples want to remember. Her short film Desert Hours received an award in the Nikon Film and Photo Contest 2024-2025.

Both have been invited speakers at photography and wedding conferences across Asia, Europe and the US for well over a decade, and have judged international competitions there, including WPPI, the Icon Awards and AsiaWPA.

More about both of them: Meet 37 Frames

What we can speak to

  • Why more couples now travel to marry. When the people you love live across several countries, a wedding somewhere new is often the one way to bring everyone together. The day has become several days, and the guest list a traveling party.

  • Three generations, one journey. A grandmother’s first trip to Japan, a niece’s first trip anywhere. When a celebration is the reason a family travels together, a destination has to get the quiet things right: pace, food, rest, access, and someone who has thought of them before anyone lands.

  • The next generation of travel. The couples marrying now grew up traveling. They want fewer sights and more meaning: time somewhere real, with the people who matter. What they ask of a place says a lot about where travel is going.

  • What makes a place sought after. It’s rarely the room. It’s access to what can’t be booked, a place that feels lived in rather than staged, and hosts who understand why people have come. The hotels and resorts couples now ask for by name have learned that.

  • A country learning to host the world. Japan’s wedding industry was built for its own traditions. Families arriving from many countries at once ask something new of its hotels, ryokan and ceremony venues, and the industry is learning to respond.

  • Ceremony, shared rather than borrowed. Shrine ceremonies, kimono, sake and seasonal ritual: how couples who aren’t Japanese take part with respect, and why it means more to them than a backdrop.

  • Seasons that won’t sit still. Cherry blossom, autumn color, snow country, the southern islands. The most beautiful weeks in Japan are the hardest to pin to a date, and planning around them is a craft of its own.

  • What’s worth keeping. How weddings are photographed and filmed now, and what couples will still want to see in thirty years.

What stays private

We never share a couple’s names, numbers or photographs without their yes. That includes guest counts and budgets. If you’d like to feature a wedding, we’ll ask the couple first.

Photographs and film

Our photographs and films are released for publication only by arrangement. Contact us first: nothing is published until both we and the couple have agreed. Crediting 37 Frames is not permission to use them.

Some of the weddings we’ve been trusted with

The press below is the part of our work the world has seen. Some of the weddings that matter most never reached a magazine, because the families wanted it that way.

  • Oman, March 2020.

    A royal wedding, celebrated twice in one week: at Al Bustan Palace, then on a clifftop above the sea.

  • Italy, 2018.

    The wedding of a senior designer at Giorgio Armani: a custom Viktor&Rolf gown, then an Armani one, of course.

  • Vietnam, 2016.

    Three journeys for the Prime Minister’s family: to the island of Nam Du, then to celebrations in Ho Chi Minh City and at Amanoi.

Others we’ll never write about. That’s part of the job.

Press and recognition

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About 37 Frames

37 Frames is a Tokyo-based destination wedding planning, photography and film studio founded in 2000 by Tracey Taylor and Dee Green. The studio plans and documents weddings and elopements across Japan, from Tokyo and Kyoto to Hokkaido and Okinawa, for couples from around the world, and consults for international hotels in Japan on their wedding programs. Dee Green leads planning and production; Tracey Taylor leads photography and film.

Contact

We’re in Tokyo (JST). If you’re working to a deadline, say so in the subject line and we’ll reply as soon as we can.