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- Keep up to date with
what's happening as you plan
your
wedding in Hawaii.
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- Your Hawaii wedding will
be a joyful experience that you will savor for a lifetime.
With beautiful Hawaii wedding
photography and a touching Hawaii wedding video -- you will
remember this day forever.
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- The bigger your
Hawaii wedding is, the more planning help you'll need to make certain that everything
goes as planned.
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- Your wedding is
over so quickly . . .
- you'll want to
savor the memories for a lifetime with quality wedding photography.
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 This
is an exciting time as you begin your Hawaii wedding planning adventure.
This page walks you through some of the things that you'll want to do as
you start preparing for your incredible, romantic Maui wedding!
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Every Hawaii wedding has a few basic choices
that must be made. If you have decided to get married in Hawaii
and more specifically on Maui (which is the best of the islands
here), you are ready to begin thinking about some specific choices.
Hawaii Wedding
Planning Date
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Probably your first and most important decision is to determine
the date of your wedding. Of course, you'll need this to make
all of your other arrangements (like air and hotel reservations).
But before you nail those items down, you might want to check
with us to make certain that your wedding date is available
on our calendar. You can hold your date with us with
your $200 non-refundable deposit.
Hawaii Wedding
Planning Time
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The time of day you
select will have a lot to do with the photography you'll receive.
Lat morning, mid-day and afternoon Hawaii weddings have brighter daylight
that that usually provides more vibrant colors for your pictures. But of
course, it is often also hotter in the middle of the day.
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Afternoon
and sunset Hawaii weddings usually have darker backgrounds and shadows.
But the late afternoon hours can make for dramatic lighting,
especially if your wedding is to be shot at sunset. Keep in mind
that your wedding is best finished before the actual sunset
so that we will have time to capture great sunset Hawaii wedding photography
and get the best Hawaii wedding video images.
Hawaii Wedding
Planning Your Site
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If you have a larger group, we recommend that you choose a private
Hawaii wedding site, choose a Hawaii garden wedding location, have a
Hawaii waterfall wedding, a Hawaii resort wedding, or choose a Hawaii
wedding chapel. This will
guarantee that your Maui wedding site will be available (as public
beaches are first-come, first-served). We have web pages to help you with your choice of a
Hawaii wedding
location. Remember that we have many sites that are not listed on this
website, so if you are looking for something that you don't see, just
call us.
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Wedding Planning of your Package.
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We have put together a great number of popular features in each Hawaii
wedding package to provide those kinds of services that our couples
appreciate. This includes your minister, your Hawaii wedding photographer,
your Maui wedding video, bride's hair and make-up service, leis for
exchanging during your Hawaii wedding ceremony, a bouquet, a Maui
wedding cake,
a Hawaii musician of your choice, and a limousine service.
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But
even within each of these features, there are still so many more possible choices. For
example, when it comes to flowers, there are many different styles of bride's bouquets,
bridesmaid's bouquets,
Hawaiian wedding leis (also many different kinds), boutonnieres,
hair flowers and haku hair leis, flowers to decorate the cake,
bouquets to decorate arches and pew bows. We have all of these different
Hawaii flower arrangements for you and will help you choose just the
right kind of Hawaii wedding flowers to suit your Maui wedding ceremony
as well as your own personal tastes.
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Follow the link to view the
Hawaii Wedding Package
page, and from there you can go to individual pages that will give you
all sorts of special details to make your choices easier.
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If you prefer to choose each service outside of our money-saving packages,
you may select all of your choices individually. Please look
at the A la Carte
page of Hawaii Wedding Services or just tell our romance counselor what you desire when
you call our toll-free number.
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Hawaii Wedding Minister. We have a minister's page with
several ministers that we know will do an outstanding job for
your wedding. When you book, it will help us to find out any
preferences you might have. Follow the link on the top left or click on here.
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Hawaii Wedding
Size. Most couples bring fewer
than 20 people to Hawaii for their wedding. If your party is
larger than 6, we can help you by accommodating all of the many
extras you'll need.
Hawaii Wedding
Planning of Larger Weddings
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As the number
of people attending your wedding rises, of course everything
takes more time and effort for coordination. All of our packages
are designed for parties of six or less. We do quote different
prices for your larger wedding needs. We do this not only because
of the extra work, but because we want to make certain that we
are adequately staffed for your wedding service.
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Hawaii Time. For our smaller weddings,
we like to allow at least 1 and 1/2 hours to complete everything
(from the ceremony to the photography). But when a wedding has
extra people or services, the amount of time needed goes up.
The larger a wedding is, the more time it takes to get everything
accomplished properly. We want to make certain that your wedding
is adequately staffed and that there is enough time to accomplish
everything.
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If you’re
having a sunset wedding, time is an even more important issue.
Remember, that the sun will set on schedule, whether or not everyone
is ready. This can add pressure if inadequate time is not allocated
because of the size of your group. We will therefore schedule
extra time when there is a larger number of guests.
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We cannot stress the importance of being early to your wedding.
Delays sometimes happen, and that will inevitably cause your
wedding and photography to be rushed. So, plan on being early
so that you be less likely to be stressed at your ceremony.
Hawaii Wedding Site
Availability
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Larger Hawaii weddings help
at public locations take a greater risk. Because beaches and
parks are public, other weddings or events may take the spot
you desire to use. Of course, at public locations there is no
guarantee that you will be able to use the exact location you
desire. We have seen entire wedding parties have to travel to
another location (which will certainly press you for time).
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For this reason, 1st
Choice Maui Weddings highly recommends that you think about using
a private or resort site if you have a larger party. Yes, it
is more expensive, but it will increase the likelihood of everyone
having a great time.
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Hawaii Weather.
If you are scheduled for a sunset wedding
at a public beach and it rains, we may need to move to another
beach location where the weather is better. Fortunately, rain
in Hawaii is often localized and so if this happens and you are flexible,
we can move to another beach and not have to postpone your wedding.
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We estimate that about 30 percent of the weddings that we do
on the west side of Maui will get some rain during the course
of the evening. Although a little rain doesn't seem like much
of a concern to many people, it does have a tendency to fog camera
lenses and make it more difficult to give our couples the kind
of high quality photography and video that want. With this in
mind we recommend that couples doing a beach wedding should consider
coming to south Maui for their ceremony.
Formal Hawaii
Weddings |
Large Party Weddings
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There are
other factors that will add time to your wedding. Please let
us know if you are considering any of doing the following (so
that we can plan appropriately):
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Secluded
Hawaii Bride.
Many brides desire to
stay out of sight of their fiancé until the moment of
entry at the wedding site. Because this often necessitates that
we travel back and forth between the bride and the groom to coordinate
the entrance of each party, please let us know in advance that
the bride will be secluded so we can allow time for it.
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A Hawaii Wedding Rehearsal.
Very few Maui weddings are big enough
to require a rehearsal. For small weddings we will often just
sketch out a plan for the wedding, showing where the musicians,
videographer, father of the bride, groom, bridesmaids, and bride
will all stand and how they will enter.
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In the event
your Hawaii wedding is large enough to warrant the extra time and expense
of having a rehearsal, our services can also be booked for a
rehearsal, either a day before or right before the wedding. But
keep several things in mind:
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1) There
is a rehearsal fee.
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2) Be sure
to book the rehearsal on our calendar.
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3) Try to
have the majority of your wedding party, (especially those standing
up at the wedding) at the rehearsal. Remember people may be flying
in from the mainland on different flights with different schedules.
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4) If you
have a private site, you may need to book the site for your rehearsal
and there could be a separate fee for its use.
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Hawaii Wedding Photography.
Whenever you have a larger wedding, you
should think about increasing the size of your photography package.
Family portraits often end up consuming a lot of the photographs
that might normally be used to shoot the more romantic poses
with the wedding couple. If your wedding is larger than 20 people
(including guests), its best to order the next larger photography
package.
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Hawaii Wedding
Videos.
If you are having a video taken of your
more formal wedding, it will inevitably need to be longer than
most of our videos for smaller weddings. If your wedding is larger
than 20 people (including guests), please consider the need for
a larger video package.
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the Hawaii Wedding Package page, click here:
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For
booking information, call:
Toll Free: 1-800-561-4047
Local: 1-808-879-3443
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13 Kuapapa Place, Kihei, HI
96753
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