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10 tips for choosing the best Hawaiian wedding planner

There are many reasons Hawaii is the most popular wedding destination in the Pacific, including the beautiful beaches, gorgeous sunsets and a romantic atmosphere like no other place in the world. But before you rush off and book your own fantasy wedding, there's some things you ought to know about Hawaii wedding companies. This article will give you just the guidance you need to make the best selection of your Hawaiian wedding planning company.

Author: John Souter

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This article will provide you just what you need to know to make the best selection for your Hawaiian wedding planning company.

1. Find a wedding company who has a decent website.

A good looking, well thought out website will give you a good clue as to just how busy and professional the wedding planner really is.

A good website should provide you lots of information so that you are able to make an informed decision about a wedding planner before you even call.

2. Choose a wedding coordinator who shows you their names, business address and phone numbers plainly on their website.

In every wedding market, there are typically a number of companies who seem to like hiding behind their website. Sometimes, they have worked at making their identity hard to find because they don't enjoy too much contact with their clients. They will hide their contact info, offering no personal information. This is a sign that you are considering a fly-by-night planner or one who is only a middle-man, hiring another planner to coordinate their actual weddings.

3. Pay attention to the way a wedding planner handles you on the telephone.

You will want to do business with a planner who treats you with respect. If someone is obviously not listening to you, do you really want them coordinating your wedding? How you are treated on the phone is a good indication of how you will be handled on the day of your wedding. If a wedding planner doesn't even try to get back to you in the beginning, before you have even booked, how easy will they be to communicate with after they have your cash and you're "stuck" with them?

4. Find a Wedding Planner who has experience.

Over the years many young women have told us that they see coordinating weddings as a dream job. Here on Maui, there are plenty of people who have thrown up a quick website and begun to tell everyone they know that they are now a Maui wedding planner. Do you want to be someone's first (or second) wedding? Experience is so paramount, especially here on Maui where there is so much to learn, including wedding locations, legal questions, types of flowers, the difference in wedding vendors, which ministers and photographers are the best, etc., etc.

5. Ensure your wedding planner will truly be at your wedding.

There are cut-rate wedding companies who only perform front office services. They call a minister, a photographer and maybe a videographer to do your wedding, but they don't send a coordinator to show and to run everything, because that would mean they would have to raise their prices and lose their selling point.

If no on-site wedding coordinator will be there, who will make certain that everyone knows what they're doing? And if for some reason, one vendor (like the minister) is late or heaven forbid, does not show up at all due to some emergency, who will pull everything together and get a backup? Unless your wedding involves just a minister, and no one else, you want to be confident that a wedding planner will be in attendance when your wedding is performed.

6. Get a wedding company with the spirit of Aloha.

"Aloha" means love in Hawaiian. Those of us who reside in Hawaii enjoy the attitude that is here and which comes, first and foremost from the native Hawaiians. We want to treat you like you're family (or ohana, as we say here). It is crucial to get a wedding planner who truly handles you like you're part of the family.

7. Choose a wedding planner who is a member of the Better Business Bureau.

This final point is likely our most important tip. In any industry there are always people who do not deal with their clients well. Even some who have been in business for years? In Hawaii there are a handful of wedding companies who have a long list of unhappy or semi-happy couples. The fail-proof way to avoid such planners is to research them with the Hawaii Chapter of the Better Business Bureau. Know that a planner with a number of black marks will rise to the attention of the BBB. A member company offers you one more guarantee that you will go home happily "Maui'd."

About Author

John has been a licensed and ordained minister for 41 years. He has served as wedding officiant for more than 1,000 Maui Weddings with his wedding planning business, Maui Me Inc. All of his ceremonies are written by him and he performed his first wedding 35 years ago. John has authored almost 50 Christian books which have been translated into eight languages. In addition to performing wedding ceremonies, he shoots most of the photography.

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10 tips for choosing the best Hawaiian wedding planner