My lovely bride Michelle, who just had a beautiful wedding on April 25th and was featured on Style Me Pretty, is kind enough to share her destination wedding planning experience with our readers. It really makes a big difference to get the tips and advice directly from a bride who’s “been there, done that”! Hopefully [...]
This is one of my favorite topics since I am such a foodie! Lately I have been getting a lot of questions from my clients regarding the catering portion of their wedding. I thought it might be a good idea for me to do a post on it. So here we go:
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Before I branched out on my own in October 2007, I was a Wedding Manager at one of the wedding planning companies here on Maui. One of my clients was Christine and Vina from Michigan, and they got married on May 25th, 2007. Here is a picture of them on their wedding day. They were [...]
Besides the wedding day, a lot of destination brides ask me for suggestions on other events during their wedding week. The most popular one being the Welcome Dinner/Reception.
Although a Welcome Reception is a great way to invite all of your out-of-town guests to get together for the very first time, there is no rule that [...]
It doesn’t happen very often when wedding vendors get the same day off, but this past Saturday Ralph Giles and Daniel Southmayd of Catering from Soup to Nuts invited a few of us to their lovely house for a wonderful barbeque dinner. Besides my hubby and I, Mike Sidney of Mike Sidney Photography was also [...]
About 4 months ago, Christine, the Founder and Creative Director of Stonington Design+Paperie approached me and asked if I would be interested in being in her feature - “10 Things That Make Me Happy” on her blog - bespoke. I thought that was a great idea and I started compiling my Top 10 list.
I asked [...]
A couple of my good friends in the wedding biz told me about the amazing Ritz-Carlton in Lake Tahoe, which will be opened in December 2009. The one great thing about Lake Tahoe is that there are tons of activities you can do all year round.
During the summer time, you can go horseback riding, river [...]
These are the two things that I would not recommend for any outdoor private estate weddings in Hawaii:
WEDDING SPARKLERS
They may look cool when all of your guests light them up right before the end of the reception, but they can be highly hazardous. One of my recent June weddings, the bride told me during her [...]
Not very often do I get a guest blog post from a groom-to-be or a past groom. Today, guest blogger Benjamin Parker, founder of GroomPower.com, would like to share with us a few tips on the groom’s speech.
Benjamin set up the site after his own wedding. He said: “There are so many helpful websites out [...]
I am currently brainstorming a few ideas with my clients for their wedding favors, and I found these amazing accordion-style photo album favors by Paper Per Se, which double up as an escort card as well. After the wedding, guests can display photos from your special day! Each matching box is calligraphed with each guest’s [...]
