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22/08/2026

The red in autumn leaves is not revealed. It’s made.
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The yellows and oranges were there all along, hidden under chlorophyll and uncovered when it withdraws. But red is different. Red is anthocyanin, and the tree synthesises it fresh in the final weeks, spending its last energy of the year on a pigment that will fall within days.
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Botanists still argue about why. Sunscreen for the leaf’s last working days. A signal to insects. A way to save every drop of nitrogen before winter. What nobody disputes is that the blaze costs the tree something. It’s the most deliberate thing a mountain does all year.
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Worth knowing, when you choose it for your wedding.
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These two took the quietest version of the loudest season. A ryokan folded into the mountains, a koto carrying through the room, the maples doing their brief expensive thing outside every window. No audience. No schedule except the light.
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Deliberate, costly, gone in days, unforgettable. The season and the day agreed on terms.
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To you two: the mountains made something new for the ending. So did you.
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📋 Planning | 📸 Photography | 🎥 Film 37 Frames | Tracey Taylor & Dee Green

22/08/2026

The most famous poem in Japan is seventeen syllables long.
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Bashō’s frog. An old pond, a frog jumps in, the sound of water. That’s the entire poem. It has outlived empires, survived four centuries of translation, and generated more scholarship than most novels.
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Nobody has ever called it an easy poem. Shorter than an epic, yes. Easier, no. The opposite. An epic can afford a dull page. A haiku has seventeen syllables and every one of them is load-bearing. Remove a word and the poem collapses. The smaller the form, the higher the pressure per word.
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Weddings work on the same maths. A day with a hundred and fifty guests has room to breathe, and it should. Energy moves around the room, moments overlap, the day carries itself in places. A day with two people has nowhere to hide. Every hour is the poem.
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That’s what we’re actually doing when we plan an elopement. Not planning less. Choosing which seventeen syllables.
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📋 Planning | 📸 Photography | 🎥 Film 37 Frames | Tracey Taylor & Dee Green

21/08/2026

It’s summer. It’s hot. So we thought we’d cool things down a little and revisit winter in Hakuba. ❄️ While we eat ice cream and edit.

Snow falling. Mountains disappearing into white. One incredible wedding in the middle of it all.

Consider this our tiny escape from August.

📋 Planning | 📸 Photography | 🎥 Film 37 Frames | Tracey Taylor & Dee Green

20/08/2026

The most considered form of hospitality Japan ever produced was built for a handful of guests.

The tea ceremony has no crowd. A host, a few people, a small room. & for that room, everything is decided. The season’s flower in the alcove. The angle of the scoop. The sound the water should make just before it boils. Four centuries of refinement, spent on two hours & four guests.

Small was never the opposite of serious here. Small is where the care becomes visible.

We came up in large weddings, in Japan & around the world. Then the pandemic reshaped celebrations for a time, & we found ourselves back somewhere we’d had little room for in past years: elopements & intimate weddings. We fell for them all over again.

Because an elopement isn’t a smaller version of a wedding. It’s a concentrated one. A hundred & fifty guests give a day somewhere to distribute its weight. Two people give it nowhere to hide. Every minute carries the whole thing. The listening matters more, not less. The details are fewer, & each one carries more.

The tea room has a phrase for it. Ichi-go ichi-e. One time, one meeting. This gathering, exactly as it is, will never happen again, so treat it accordingly.

Which has been the brief for every wedding we’ve ever planned. It’s just that with two people at the centre, you can feel it in the room.

So this beautiful elopement.
Rain does something specific to a place. Acoustically it’s broadband sound, close to pink noise, & it masks everything distant. The traffic, the town, the world past the garden wall. All of it drops away, & what’s left is what’s close.

Which is a long way of saying intimacy was never really about how few people are in the room. It’s about how little of the outside world can reach you.

On this day, the rain arrived well before the ceremony did. By the time these two stood beneath the awning, it wasn’t weather anymore. It was everything.

Mist on the mountains. The koto underneath it. Fuji showing herself at sunrise for a few minutes, then gone.

& her, at the end of it all, saying simply: “I really love the rain.”

Some couples don’t get the forecast they hoped for. Some get better.

37 Frames | Tracey Taylor & Dee Green

20/08/2026

Somewhere over the ocean, at 4am, a plane full of sleeping strangers didn't know they were carrying two aunts watching a gold medal race on a phone with airplane wifi.

We were in the grandstand for the relays. We hugged strangers. We watched a whole family forget to breathe for seven minutes. We cheered heat swimmers at a dinner table because gold medals are won in shifts.

But his individual 200 final? Our flight home was mid-air. So we watched it on plane wifi, in a dark cabin, just us and the crew, a boy in lane one on a screen the size of a small postcard. He went out hard, led the whole way, and held.

Commonwealth champion. The crew brought champagne and cake. And on landing, the flight attendant announced over the intercom that Kai Taylor had just won 200m freestyle gold for Australia, and the entire plane cheered. Strangers, at dawn, cheering a boy they'd never met.

He said it best himself, talking about winning from the outside lane: if you have a lane, you have a chance.

Congratulations, Kai. The grandstand, the sky, the whole world on its way somewhere. We watched you every way there is. 🥇🥇🥇🥇

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A family story 44 years in the making: Kai Taylor's four golds at Glasgow 2026, told from the grandstand, a yellow suitcase and a plane over the ocean.

20/08/2026

Japanese doesn’t have one word for rain. It has hundreds. Shigure, the passing drizzle of early winter. Yūdachi, the sudden evening downpour in summer. Kirisame, rain so fine it’s closer to mist. A language only keeps that many words for something it has decided to pay attention to.

This fabulous Australian couple got several of them in one day. It began as kirisame, softening the mountains, deepening the gardens, letting Fuji through briefly at sunrise. By evening it was doshaburi. Torrential. The kind that doesn’t fall so much as arrive.

There’s a saying here for rain on a wedding day. Ame futte ji katamaru. Rain falls and the ground strengthens. What gets rained on holds. By that logic, this marriage is set in concrete.

She’d have told you that anyway. “I really love the rain.” (We heard her saying that through so many of the clips. We’re so glad she does. Because we do too).

17/08/2026

And then there was the first dance. Tokyo Drift. The viral TikTok dance, performed at a destination wedding in Japan, by two people who understood the assignment completely. (Scroll to the end!!)

For a couple who loves Japan and EDM, there was really no other possible ending.

Romance comes in many forms. Sometimes it has a 150 BPM bassline.

📋 Planning | 📸 Photography | 🎥 Film 37 Frames | Tracey Taylor & Dee Green



Planner/Production | Dee Green 37 Frames | Tracey Taylor & Dee Green
Assistant Planner | Sumika
Film & Photography | Tracey, Junko, Nick, Naoki 37 Frames | Tracey Taylor & Dee Green
Wedding Content Creator | Azu
Flowers | EcstaticFlowers_byREGALODESIGN
HMU | Megumi Enokido/Hair&Make up Artist/Tokyo
DJ | DJ Tama DJ TAMA | SPC FINEST 🇯🇵 💿 Strictly Vinyl & Good Vibes

17/08/2026

There is something almost alchemical about a wedding.

People travel across countries, oceans and time zones, carrying different histories, friendships and versions of the same two people. Then, for one extraordinary day, all those separate lives converge in one place.

Maybe that is why certain gatherings have an energy you can actually feel.

A little Ghibli in spirit. A house full of characters. Mist in the mountains. Music everywhere. EDM. And themagic of people finding themselves exactly where they are supposed to be.

📋 Planning | 📸 Photography | 🎥 Film 37 Frames | Tracey Taylor & Dee Green



Planner/Production | Dee Green 37 Frames | Tracey Taylor & Dee Green
Assistant Planner | Sumika Kawaguchi
Film & Photography | Tracey, Junko, Nick, Naoki 37 Frames | Tracey Taylor & Dee Green
Wedding Content Creator | Azusa azu@37frames
Flowers | EcstaticFlowers_byREGALODESIGN
HMU | Megumi Enokido/Hair&Make up Artist/Tokyo
DJ | DJ Tama DJ TAMA | SPC FINEST 🇯🇵 💿 Strictly Vinyl & Good Vibes
Shamisen | 飯田 華那

16/08/2026

Tsugaru shamisen. Three strings. That’s the instrument. Three strings, a bachi, and Hana Iida.

She holds a master name in the Yamanaka school. She’s won at the Tsugaru Shamisen World Championship, twice. She’s played Saitama Super Arena, three concert halls in Estonia, and taken Stairway to Heaven apart on a shamisen.

None of that tells you what she does to a room.
This does. Sound up.

A multi-day wedding in Japan, and two people who wanted nothing in the programme because it was Japanese. Only because it belonged.
Hana belonged.

Watching from the side of the room, we may have briefly forgotten we were working. Peter, Vivian, thank you for trusting the idea. Hana, this is only the first.



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