As you are reading this post, Darren and I are still “staycationing” at the Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua for my 40th birthday. Yes, that’s where we have been at this whole weekend! During one of his Manager’s Meetings at work a few months ago, Darren won a 2-night deluxe accommodation at the Ritz and the certificate is [...]
I will be out of the office this weekend and next Monday with no email and voicemail access, as I am going to celebrate a very special day with my hubby. This is where we will be at:
Can you tell where that is? I will reveal it on Monday’s post! Have a great weekend everyone! [...]
My little brother sent me a message through Facebook last week to tell me that he finally popped the question, and his girlfriend said YES! I am so happy for the two of them. If you are a loyal reader of this blog, you might remember that I blogged about that the first few days [...]
In this day and age, we are always so busy with work and with our lives that we seldom have time to just catch our breath and think about, let alone appreciate everything that we have. It’s human nature to complain about things that we don’t have or things that don’t go our way, but [...]
This past Sunday, my hubby and I went to our friend’s Anna & Elan’s joint birthday party in Haiku! It was a lot of fun. If you remember from one of my old blog posts, Anna & Elan were actually my very first clients! They moved to Maui in August 2007, and they got married [...]
Two months ago, my good friend Tad of Tad Craig Photography came to me and asked if I could help him with some marketing and branding projects. Having worked in the marketing field for over a decade, of course I was happy to oblige. I was actually honored that he approached me.
In exchange for my [...]
A few weeks ago when I was on a scouting trip with my clients, the groom asked me: “Do you do food/cake tastings often?” Luckily, my answer was: “No.” Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely enjoy going on scouting trips with my clients, tasting all the yummy food (I LOVE to eat) and meeting all [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
