Top 50 Wedding & Bridal Influencers in Japan to Know in 2026

Affiliation: Independent photographer · Last post: 28 September 2026 (Instagram).

MOMO has 393K Instagram followers. The display name, MOMO|東京・横浜|結婚式|前撮り|カメラマン, sets out the offer: a photographer based in Tokyo and Yokohama shooting wedding days and pre-wedding sessions. The feed is the portfolio that brings in those bookings, and its audience is couples choosing a photographer and a look.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 25 September 2026 (Instagram).

ko-ki has 56K Instagram followers. The display name describes pre-wedding photography based in the Kansai region, wedding-day coverage and travel to shoots across Japan (ウェディング関西前撮り / 結婚式 / 全国出張). The feed works as a portfolio for couples comparing photographers and deciding how their photos should look.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 24 September 2026 (Instagram).

Yuki Fujii has 22K Instagram followers. The account is a photographer’s portfolio of pre-wedding sessions and wedding-day shoots, followed by couples who look at finished work while they choose a photographer, the stage at which the style of the shoot, and the products in it, are decided.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 26 September 2026 (Instagram); last YouTube post 26 September 2026.

Mototeru Ikeuchi, known as Ruu, has 20K Instagram followers and 7.6K YouTube subscribers. The display name, Ruu【東京駅前撮りPhotographer】Mototeru Ikeuchi, names the specialism: pre-wedding sessions shot at Tokyo Station, one of the recognisable backdrops for couples in the capital. The YouTube channel, 天才カメラマンRuu, shares the behind-the-scenes side of how a shoot is made.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 28 September 2026 (Instagram).

Yugo Ueda has 20K Instagram followers, on an account under the photographer’s own name. The display name places the work in Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki and Kumamoto, covering pre-wedding sessions and wedding days shot as an outside photographer the couple books directly rather than a venue’s in-house team, which gives a route to couples in Kyushu.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 28 September 2026 (Instagram).

Kotomi has 13K Instagram followers. The display name, Kotomi|フォトグラファー|中四国・関西前撮り, describes a photographer shooting pre-wedding sessions across the Chugoku, Shikoku and Kansai regions, reaching couples in western Japan outside the large metropolitan centres through the feed they browse when choosing who will shoot them.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 30 July 2026 (Instagram).

Hikari Kikuchi has 9,560 Instagram followers, on an account carrying the photographer’s name that presents pre-wedding and wedding-day work. It is a portfolio feed aimed at couples comparing photographers, reaching them at the stage when the look of the shoot is being decided.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 30 August 2026 (Instagram).

Yusuke has 9,233 Instagram followers, on an account whose display name reads Yusuke | フォトグラファー | 結婚式. Where several photographers here lead with pre-wedding sessions, this account centres on the wedding day itself: the ceremony, the reception and the details couples choose for their guests.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 15 August 2026 (Instagram).

Jin Tanaka has 7,375 Instagram followers. The display name, 田中 陣 | ウェディングビデオグラファー | エンドロール | 結婚式ムービー, sets out the specialism: wedding video, and in particular the end-roll film shown at a Japanese reception, alongside other wedding-day movies. It is the only videographer in this segment.

Credentials: Display name states an appearance on the documentary programme 情熱大陸 (Jōnetsu Tairiku) and advertising shoots (self-reported) · Affiliation: CEU, a hair and make-up salon in Tokyo and Nagoya · Last post: 23 September 2026 (Instagram).

Yukiko Hattori has 138K Instagram followers. Her display name reads ceu 服部由紀子 | 情熱大陸出演|広告撮影|ウェディング, and the feed is built around wedding hair and make-up for brides who want a marked transformation on the day, shown through finished looks and the technique behind them. The account brings bookings to her own salon.

Affiliation: The handle references MY DRESSER, a bridal hair and make-up business · Last post: 9 September 2026 (Instagram).

Mika Takemoto has 76K Instagram followers, on an account whose display name reads Mika Takemoto | ブライダルヘアメイク. The feed shows bridal hair and make-up work, with finished looks for brides choosing a style and an artist before their trial, and the account takes bookings for that work.

Affiliation: maoizm bridal, a trading name · Last post: 28 September 2026 (Instagram).

maoizm bridal has 28K Instagram followers. Its display name reads maoizm bridal | 個性派前撮り | 衣装プロデュース: costume production for pre-wedding shoots with a distinctive, non-traditional look, for couples who want their photographs to stand apart. A second account, @maoizm, under the name mao / maoizm, has 9,051 followers.

Last post: 11 September 2026 (Instagram).

Bridal Hairmake Geek has 18K Instagram followers. Based in Tokyo and travelling across Japan, the account publishes bridal hairstyles together with the know-how behind them, an explanatory format for brides researching before a trial who want to understand what to ask their artist for.

Affiliation: marie, a trading name · Last post: 28 September 2026 (Instagram).

Kiyomi Hasegawa has 16K Instagram followers, on an account whose display name reads 長谷川清美/marie/ヘアメイク/wedding. Based in Nagoya, she works under her own name and the marie trading name, taking wedding hair and make-up work in Japan and abroad, and the feed presents finished bridal looks for brides choosing an artist.

Last post: 27 September 2026 (Instagram).

MOMOYO has 5,319 Instagram followers, on an account whose display name reads ドレスデザイナー桃世/ DressDesinger MOMOYO. The feed covers the design and making of wedding dresses, reaching brides interested in how a gown is conceived and constructed rather than in a finished look alone.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 28 September 2026 (Instagram).

Kanae Matsumoto has 2,409 Instagram followers. The account shows bridal hair and make-up work in Sapporo, Hokkaido, published under the artist’s own name, and is actively updated, giving a small, active route to couples in Hokkaido.

Last post: 28 September 2026 (Instagram).

Yorokobi has 262K Instagram followers. The feed is built around the wedding emcee’s job on the day: ceremony introductions, the opening of the reception, and how a couple might go about choosing an emcee. The creator takes emcee bookings alongside sponsored posts, and the TikTok handle has five letter i’s, one fewer than the Instagram handle.

Credentials: Freelance wedding planner and editor-in-chief of ARCH DAYS media, as stated in her Instagram display name · Affiliation: ARCH DAYS (media editor-in-chief); freelance · Last post: 8 September 2026 (Instagram).

Ayaka Inoue has 9,461 Instagram followers. A Tokyo-based freelance planner who also edits the wedding media title ARCH DAYS, she shares ideas for ceremonies and receptions drawing on that editorial role, reaching couples who use her feed for inspiration. Her business spans planning commissions and editing.

Credentials: Former wedding planner (self-reported) · Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 17 September 2026 (Instagram).

Mii has 8,366 Instagram followers. The account explains the order in which a couple should tackle wedding preparation, giving it a practical, checklist quality, and covers venue visits, quotes and cancellation fees along the way. It is a small, focused archive of around 49 posts.

Credentials: Her Instagram display name reads “Wedding planner | Saeka Nishi | Kobe | Osaka” · Last post: 5 September 2026 (Instagram).

Saeka Nishi has 6,183 Instagram followers. The account shows what a working planner’s day involves and the surprise moments staged during ceremonies and receptions in Kobe and Osaka, a natural setting for props, favours and small gifts handed over or revealed at a reception.

Credentials: Freelance wedding planner (self-described) · Affiliation: Independent (freelance) · Last post: 24 September 2026 (Instagram).

Masako Tsuruno has 4,100 Instagram followers. She works under her own name as a freelance planner covering Tokyo, the wider Kanto region and western Japan, and the account is the shop window for her planning commissions. Her value to a brand is a working planner’s judgement rather than reach.

Credentials: Freelance wedding planner (self-described) · Affiliation: Independent (freelance) · Last post: 3 September 2026 (Instagram).

Satoko Ogawa has 3,956 Instagram followers. A freelance planner based in the Kanto region who takes work across Japan, she uses the account to show her planning and bring in commissions, which suits commentary, supervised guides and short series on the choices couples face.

Affiliation: Independent (freelance); account name Borderless Wedding · Last post: 8 August 2026 (Instagram).

Kasumi has 1,408 Instagram followers. She works as a freelance wedding producer on an account named Borderless Wedding, and a third-party listing describes her as producing weddings for LGBTQ+ couples as well, an angle relevant to inclusive ring, attire and ceremony-service campaigns.

Credentials: Author of wedding preparation books including WEDDING IDEAS BOOK (Seibundo Shinkosha, 2016) and 結婚準備パーフェクトBOOK (Seibido Shuppan, 2011); worked at a dedicated wedding venue before going freelance in 2005, according to her Mynavi Woman profile · Affiliation: Independent (nanea) · Last post: 3 September 2026 (Instagram); 16 June 2026 (X).

Nana Okamura has 950 Instagram followers and 906 on X. A freelance planner since 2005 and the author of wedding preparation books, she produces weddings, counsels couples and works on product planning, supervision and writing, which suits expert involvement such as supervising a planning guide.

Last post: 24 September 2026 (Instagram); last YouTube post 28 September 2026.

Honopisu has 177K Instagram followers and 63K YouTube subscribers. She built her audience as a lifestyle creator, and her own wedding is a theme now running through the feed: dress fittings, a pre-wedding shoot in a white kimono (白無垢, shiromuku) and bridal make-up, followed by an audience that did not come to her for weddings.

Last post: 26 September 2026 (Instagram); last YouTube post 28 September 2026.

Misato Kyuui has 174K Instagram followers and 47.4K subscribers on her YouTube channel, きゅうちゃんねる (Kyu-channel). A television personality, she publishes pre-wedding vlogs covering the preparations, bride-focused beauty routines and a dress she worked on by hand, a format that shows a product across several steps.

Last post: 27 September 2026 (Instagram); last YouTube post 26 September 2026.

Nana has 170K Instagram followers and 89.9K YouTube subscribers. She presents herself as a bride who had never attended a wedding as a guest (参列経験ゼロのプレ花嫁) and documents building a wedding from scratch, starting with research on Pinterest, which speaks directly to couples who do not know where to begin.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 27 September 2026 (Instagram and YouTube).

Mugi has 19K Instagram followers and 4,420 YouTube subscribers. The display name translates as “wedding preparation know-how I learned as a bride who has been through it” (卒花だから知っている結婚式準備術), and the content covers wedding preparation and ways to keep the cost down, for couples actively comparing options. Instagram is the more active platform.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 25 September 2026 (Instagram).

Baku-chan has 14K Instagram followers. The account presents itself as the “behind-the-scenes manual” for weddings (結婚式の裏マニュアル), written by a bride who has already married: preparation know-how with a practical edge, including what to watch for in quotations and contracts, read by couples deep in the decision.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 27 September 2026 (Instagram).

Saori has 2,158 Instagram followers. Her TikTok display name, “Saori パレス卒花嫁 OL花屋さん”, describes a married bride who works an office job and is also a florist, and her posts cover her own wedding’s preparation and staging, so she speaks to flowers and decoration as both a customer and someone who works with them.

Credentials: Head (代表) of the service · Affiliation: ブライダルナビ (Bridal Navi) · Last post: 28 September 2026 in the channel’s feed (the latest video on its Videos tab was uploaded about four months ago).

Yumi has 15.4K YouTube subscribers. She fronts the channel of Bridal Navi, a bridal referral service, explaining how to choose engagement rings, wedding rings, venues and attire with an emphasis on quality. The channel is the front of a business whose own service is advising couples where to buy.

Credentials: Third generation of ベルアージュカネダ, a jewellery shop in Okayama (per the channel description) · Affiliation: ベルアージュカネダ, Okayama · Last post: 27 September 2026 in the channel’s feed (the latest video on its Videos tab was uploaded about seven months ago).

Norihisa Kaneda, known as Kin-chan, has 10.9K YouTube subscribers. The third generation of an Okayama jewellery shop, he explains jewellery for beginners, with engagement-ring diamonds as a recurring subject: how to choose a stone and what to look for. The channel is part of how the shop sells, so other jewellers are competitors.

Credentials: Representative director of 株式会社Presia (Presia), per the channel description · Affiliation: Presia, a marriage agency · Last post: 28 September 2026.

Miyuki Kurushima has 172K YouTube subscribers. She runs the marriage agency Presia and publishes daily for people aiming to marry within a year: marriage-hunting (婚活, konkatsu) strategy and the psychology of men and women in it. The channel is how the agency finds members.

Credentials: Head of the marriage agency マリーミー (Marry Me), per the channel description and the agency’s website; radio host on レインボータウンFM (Rainbow Town FM), per the channel description · Affiliation: マリーミー, Aoyama, Tokyo · Last post: 25 September 2026.

Miyuki Uekusa has 98.5K YouTube subscribers. The channel is built around her radio programme, 植草美幸の恋愛・結婚相談 (Miyuki Uekusa’s Love and Marriage Consultations), and answers questions from people looking for a partner, a format with a natural point at which a relevant service can be discussed. It also draws members to her agency.

Credentials: Representative director of 株式会社パッション (Passion) and founder of the marriage agency 婚活KOKO (Konkatsu KOKO), per the channel description · Affiliation: 婚活KOKO, with offices in Ginza, Azabu and Osaka · Last post: 7 November 2025 (YouTube).

Keiko Kudo has 45.5K YouTube subscribers. She founded the marriage agency 婚活KOKO, and the channel explains marriage hunting for specific professional groups, including doctors and people posted overseas, an audience that suits brands aimed at the same professionals. The channel also brings members to her agency.

Credentials: Head of the marriage agency Marions, per the channel description · Affiliation: 結婚相談所Marions · Last post: 27 September 2026.

Yu Haginaka has 44K YouTube subscribers. The channel calls itself a vocational school for marriage hunting (婚活の専門学校) and is organised around “marriage hunting without trying too hard” (頑張らない婚活), explaining dating and men’s psychology for a female audience. The channel and a LINE-based diagnostic both route viewers to the Marions agency.

Credentials: Lead counsellor (代表カウンセラー) of the agency, per the channel description · Affiliation: 会える結婚相談所 あおぞらマリアージュ (Aozora Mariage), Ginza · Last post: 28 September 2026.

Yuji Motegi has 18.2K YouTube subscribers, on the channel of the Ginza marriage agency Aozora Mariage, whose lead counsellor he is. Recurring subjects include why people are turned down after an arranged meeting (お見合い, omiai) and how agencies differ from matching apps. The channel is run in the agency’s name to bring in members.

Credentials: Head of the men-only marriage agency Bridallink Meguro and a love and marriage-hunting counsellor (self-reported) · Affiliation: Bridallink目黒 (Bridallink Meguro) · Last post: 28 September 2026.

Hitomi Ishikawa has 12.8K YouTube subscribers. The channel, run by the head of a men-only marriage agency, coaches male marriage hunters on becoming someone women choose (女性から選ばれる男性づくり), from grooming and clothing to self-presentation at a first meeting or on a profile. It is also the agency’s route to new members.

Credentials: Marriage-hunting adviser (self-reported) · Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 27 September 2026 (YouTube); last note post 31 August 2026.

Akemi Ohnishi has 10K YouTube subscribers. She publishes what she calls near-daily marriage-hunting videos (ほぼ日婚活動画), each taking a problem and its remedy, with marriage hunting around forty (アラフォー婚活) a recurring subject. She also runs a paid membership on note, and her channel description links to Bridal Navi (rank 31).

Credentials: Dating and marriage-hunting adviser (self-reported) · Affiliation: Head of the brand Marry me, per the channel description · Last post: 26 September 2026 in the channel’s feed (the latest video on its Videos tab was uploaded about two months ago).

Reia Uekusa has 9,660 YouTube subscribers. She advises on dating and marriage hunting, and the channel extends into beauty and fashion, so products in those categories fit the content without being bolted on. She is also head of, and the image model for, a brand called Marry me.

Credentials: Head of the marriage agency キュートピア (Cutopia) (self-reported) · Affiliation: 結婚相談所キュートピア · Last post: 28 September 2026 in the channel’s feed (the latest video on its Videos tab was uploaded 12 days earlier).

Satomi Kutsuna has 4,640 YouTube subscribers. The channel’s promise is finishing marriage hunting in two months (婚活を2か月で終わらせる), explained through member cases spanning people from their twenties to their eighties, an age range that suits services such as profile photography and styling. It is also the agency’s route to new members.

Affiliation: Runs a marriage agency (stated in his X profile) · Last post: within the past week on YouTube (@moteki); 14 August 2026 (X).

Arano has 308K subscribers on @moteki and 42.4K on @100kekkon, plus 43,779 followers on X. His theme is dating and matching-app technique, and putting into words why a viewer has not yet married, across a main channel, a channel dedicated to getting married and a blunter channel. The channels sit alongside his own marriage agency.

Affiliation: Runs the members-only salon 「モテサロン」 (Mote Salon) and organises konkatsu parties · Last post: 23 September 2026 (YouTube).

Yuri has 196K YouTube subscribers. She specialises in dating and marriage hunting for people aged 40 and over, covering how adults in that age group meet people and approach konkatsu, so the audience is defined by age rather than by matching-app mechanics. She also runs a paid members’ salon and konkatsu parties.

Affiliation: Independent; offers paid one-to-one coaching · Last post: 19 September 2026 in the channel’s feed (the latest video on its Videos tab was uploaded about a month ago).

Mami-sensei has 96K YouTube subscribers. The channel is a series of lessons, taught from a woman’s point of view, for men who feel they are not good at dating: how to hold a conversation, what makes an impression and how to win someone’s interest. It also leads into her paid individual coaching.

Credentials: First-person account · Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 18 September 2026 (YouTube).

Keisuke Tsuda has 90.4K YouTube subscribers, on a channel that posts every Sunday. Its tagline presents matching apps as the start of a kind of hell, and he records his own experience of using them in a self-deprecating, sharp-tongued voice. It is testimony rather than advice, suited to entertainment-led formats.

Credentials: Describes herself as a matching-app specialist · Affiliation: Founder of ヒトオシ (Hitooshi), an introduction-based online matching service (stated in the channel description) · Last post: 28 September 2026 (YouTube).

Saki Ito has 50.6K YouTube subscribers. She explains how to use matching apps, from the profile photograph to the first message, alongside general dating information, under a stated vision of bringing as many men and women together as possible. She runs her own introduction-based matching service, so other dating apps are competitors.

Credentials: Love columnist; author of 『恋愛&婚活SNS大作戦』 (Gentosha) and other titles, confirmed on the publisher’s author page · Affiliation: Independent; published by Gentosha and others · Last post: 28 September 2026 (X); 26 September 2026 (Instagram).

Meri Kanzaki has 100K Instagram followers, 68,617 on X and 45K YouTube subscribers; Instagram is her main platform, and her last YouTube upload was on 27 May 2026. A love columnist and author, she writes about メス力® (Mesuryoku), her trademarked method for women who want to marry, across books, manga and planners.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 26 September 2026 (Instagram).

Mooko has 72K Instagram followers. Her manga covers the dating and marriage-hunting lives of women around thirty, and in April 2021 she drew an original konkatsu manga series for the official Instagram account of IBJメンバーズ (IBJ Members), part of the IBJ marriage-agency group, a format that carries a sponsor’s message across a series.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 25 September 2026 (Instagram).

Butani Kakuno has 45K Instagram followers and posted as recently as 25 September. The account sits in the dating and konkatsu segment, and at this size it suits a smaller, exploratory collaboration rather than a campaign lead.

Affiliation: Independent · Last post: 28 September 2026 (Instagram).

Yuriyu has 43K Instagram followers. The display name, 「ゆりゆ| アラサー女子漫画」, presents the account as manga about women around thirty, telling konkatsu and matching-app experiences in comic form, a format in which a product can appear naturally in a character’s day, a date or a moment of preparation.