WEDDING AVE. Co., Ltd.
Japanese wedding-photography studio operator headquartered in Nagoya, running photo-wedding studios and location shoots across Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka and beyond.
Last updated September 27, 2026
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Overview
WEDDING AVE. Co., Ltd. (株式会社WEDDING AVE.), trading as WEDDING AVENUE, is a Japanese company specialising in photo weddings — pre-wedding and wedding-day photography — with its head office in Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi. The company describes itself as a wedding-specialist photo studio business that plans, develops and operates its own studios, and it markets itself under the slogan "DESIGN × RESONABLE × NATURAL", positioning its output as stylish, affordable and natural. The core of the offer is the photo-wedding plan. WEDDING AVENUE sells studio photography in both Western dress and Japanese kimono, location photography in urban and natural settings, chapel photography, and combined dress-and-kimono location shoots. It also arranges destination-style shoots, including Kyoto and Kobe location plans, Okinawa resort photography and Hawaii photography, and it rents wedding dresses, tuxedos and Japanese formal wear and sells wedding albums and related items. Ceremonies (church-style and civil-style) are also offered as part of the service range. The company's studio network has grown from its Nagoya base. Its published history begins in 2006 with the opening of the restaurant-wedding venue Bramboir GREEN HILL, followed by Bramboir FREE CITY in 2011. The first WEDDING AVENUE studio opened in Nagoya in 2013, and THE SKY WEDDING Nagoya followed in 2016. Expansion into Japan's largest metropolitan market came with the Minami-Aoyama studio in 2021 and the Shinsaibashi (Osaka) studio in 2023; the Yokohama and Omotesando studios opened in 2025, with a Tokyo Station studio listed for 2026. The company also operates dedicated websites for several of these locations, including an English-language site for inbound and overseas customers. WEDDING AVE. is a private company. Its representative director is Nobuko Nobayashi (登林 信子), with Sayaka Hori (堀 さやか) and Reika Sonoda (園田 玲華) as directors. The company presents itself as a workplace where employees and partners can find fulfilment and individuality, and its CEO message frames photo weddings as a now-mainstream wedding style and emphasises developing staff with strong, caring hearts. Its head office operates from 10:00 to 20:00 with no regular closing days apart from the year-end and New Year holidays.
History
WEDDING AVE. Co., Ltd. traces its published history to 2006, when the restaurant-wedding venue Bramboir GREEN HILL opened. A second restaurant-wedding venue, Bramboir FREE CITY, opened in 2011. These early ventures were in restaurant weddings rather than the photo-studio business for which the company is now known. The WEDDING AVENUE brand itself began in 2013 with the opening of the Nagoya studio. In 2016 the company opened THE SKY WEDDING Nagoya, adding a distinct venue brand to its portfolio. The company's own account of its development frames this period as roughly two decades of accumulated wedding-industry know-how. Expansion beyond the Nagoya region accelerated in the 2020s. The Minami-Aoyama studio opened in 2021, bringing the brand into central Tokyo, and the Shinsaibashi studio opened in Osaka in 2023. In 2025 the company opened both the Yokohama studio and the Omotesando studio, and it lists a Tokyo Station studio as opening in 2026. Alongside these physical locations, the company operates a set of dedicated websites for individual studios — including Minami-Aoyama, Omotesando, Yokohama, Shinsaibashi and Nagoya — as well as sites for THE SKY WEDDING Nagoya, a Tokyo Station pre-wedding photography site, and an English-language site aimed at overseas and inbound customers. By the mid-2020s the company presented itself as a wedding-specialist photo studio operator offering studio, location, chapel, resort and overseas photography, dress and kimono rental, ceremonies and album sales, with its head office in Naka-ku, Nagoya and a leadership team led by Representative Director Nobuko Nobayashi.
- 2026
WEDDING AVENUE Tokyo Station studio listed as opening.
- 2025
WEDDING AVENUE Yokohama studio opens.
- 2025
WEDDING AVENUE Omotesando studio opens.
- 2023
WEDDING AVENUE Shinsaibashi studio opens in Osaka.
- 2021
WEDDING AVENUE Minami-Aoyama studio opens.
- 2016
THE SKY WEDDING Nagoya opens.
- 2013
WEDDING AVENUE Nagoya studio opens.
- 2011
Restaurant-wedding venue Bramboir FREE CITY opens.
- 2006
Restaurant-wedding venue Bramboir GREEN HILL opens.
Products and positioning
Stylish, affordable and natural photo weddings — "DESIGN × RESONABLE × NATURAL" — delivered through a multi-city studio and location network.
Studio Photo (Dress/Kimono)
Location Photo (Dress)
Location Photo (Kimono)
Location Photo (Dress & Kimono)
Kyoto Location Photo (Kimono)
Kobe Location Photo (Dress)
Hawaii Location Photo (Dress)
Chapel Photo (Dress)
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