Hawaii Beach Wedding Bride: 2011

Monday, October 31, 2011

Hawaiian island wedding

It has been your dream to head off to a lush, tropical paradise for your wedding, and it has finally all fallen into place for you to have a destination wedding in the Hawaiian Islands. As important as it is to you to get married at your tropical locale, it may be difficult for the majority of your family and friends to travel with you to attend the event. How do you handle a wedding with a lack of family and friends in attendance?

The first thing you want to do is work with your local Hawaiian wedding planner to make sure none of the venues you are choosing will make your wedding seem small. Have them scope out intimate settings, or consider décor that will minimize a large locale so your guests “fill” the location.

Hawaiian island wedding with Krista and Charlie

Keep your expectations realistic. Your wedding is, of course, the biggest day of your life, but if your grandparents or the groom’s parents are elderly or not well, traveling may not be an option. Consider how you will all feel if someone important is unable to attend. Your lifelong dream may be to have your father walk you down the aisle, but if for some reason he is unable to travel, will it ruin your entire wedding?

An option many couples choose is to have their destination wedding with however many people can attend, and then plan for a larger celebration when they get home. This allows you to get married in the romantic location you dream about, but it also gives those people who are closest to you the chance to share in the joy of your wedding celebration. This is something that your wedding coordinator in Hawaii can help with as well. While they won’t be able to direct you to a venue in your area, they can aid you in choosing items from Hawaii that you can either bring back with you when you return to your hometown, or they can suggest items you might want to order so you can recreate your Hawaiian atmosphere in your party location.

Many couples are opting for destination weddings, and families and friends are usually understanding and appreciative of you fulfilling your wedding dreams. Don’t, however, forget the people left behind. Try to do something – even if it’s on a very small scale – to let them know you wanted them to share in on your paradise wedding.

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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Save the date wedding cards info

To begin with, a save the date card might be in order. If you are planning your wedding at a very popular wedding or event season (like June), if your wedding coincides with a holiday, or if you are planning a destination wedding, a save the date card will help your guests know to keep your date open so they can start planning to travel to your destination, or so they don’t accept an invitation from someone else.

Invitations come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Long gone are the days where you chose white or ivory with black lettering. You can have all different types of papers, various fonts, and a variety of colors for both the paper and the text. You could choose to have your enveloped lined with a satin or metallic looking liner that matches your invitations. Decide if you want your return address pre-printed on your envelopes. The post office requires the return address, and this will save you a lot of time.

Beyond invitations, you have to determine whether or not there is a need for a reception card and a response card. The most formal invitations beg for a formal reception card – a card upon which the guest will find your reception information. A less formal affair can get away with a footnote on your invitation with the necessary information.

A response card is the card enclosed with your invitation where your guests will indicate whether or not they can attend your wedding. For the most formal invitations, these cards are a must, and it is your obligation to put a stamp on the return envelope. If your invitations and your wedding are more casual, you can just include on the printed invitation a phone number or an email address where guests can give you their RSVP.

Many brides also opt to purchase thank you notes that match or at least coordinate with their wedding stationery. Another nice thing to have if you will be moving after your wedding is an “at home” card. This card can be added to your invitation mailing, or you can send it with your thank you notes or separately. It gives your friends and family the new address where you can be reached.

Work with your wedding planner to help you decide what of these items are necessary. What a fortunate time brides are in to have so many options for style and theme for their stationery!

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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Hawaiian wedding reception photos for Steph and Matt

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These photos are from the wedding guest throw away cameras on the table

Reception Location http://www.hiltonhawaiianvillage.com/

Wedding reception starts at 5:00pm @ the Rainbow tower

Stephanie Ann Harshman + Matthew Alexander Reed

more photos of their Hawaiian wedding ceremony

wedding date : Aug. 20th a Saturday in 2011

Wedding time 2:00pm

THe Newely wed couple after their in the water photo shoot at the beach of Waikiki kaimana holding sand dollar sea shells with the words ThankYou

reception table flowers by http://www.flowerhawaii.com

Sunday, August 07, 2011

Wedding champagne toast is it really needed ?

When wedding expense seems to be spiraling out of control, it’s natural for engaged couples and their families to start looking for ways to reign in the spending. You may start thinking of some things you can do yourself, or look at choosing less expensive flowers or menu options.

So what about the champagne toast? This staple of many weddings can add a pretty penny to your wedding budget. Even moderately priced bottles of champagne can add a few hundred dollars to your budget, and in many cases, it’s not necessarily money well spent. To begin with, if you are not using a caterer that provides you with serving dishes and stemware, you’ll have to rent champagne glasses for everyone. Usually, the wait staff will pour the champagne in the back, and bring the filled glasses to each of your guests. In some cases, they will deliver the empty glasses to the tables, and then fill them individually. This takes the staff away from doing things like setting up your buffet or getting plates ready for your sit down dinner.

How much of the champagne is actually going to be consumed? Not everyone likes champagne, so while they might take a sip to be polite, you’ve probably noticed at weddings you have attended that quite a few guests leave nearly full glasses of champagne behind. Some people don’t like the taste, and there are others that don’t drink alcohol at all. For those people, you could offer a sparkling cider, but it may not even be necessary.

Just before your toasting begins, have your master of ceremonies invite your guests to the bar to choose a drink of their choice in order to toast the happy couple. This ensures that everyone gets what they want, and nothing is going to be wasted. If you want a special bottle of wine or champagne for the head table or the parents’ tables, splurge on something nice, but most people are going to be fine toasting you with a house white wine or a diet soda.Champagne is a really nice thought, and it does add an elegant feel to your wedding. It’s a terrible shame, though, to see money wasted on something your guests are not going to appreciate. Spend the money on an extra appetizer or another dessert option, and let the guests toast you with their choice of beverage or cocktail.

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A little advise on a destination wedding in Hawaii, Jamaica or Florida

Another alternative would be a shuttle service. Many bus companies and even limousine services have large passenger vehicles that you can rent for the course of your event. They can be asked to go to one central pick up spot, if all of your guests are booked at the same hotel, or you can ask them to make multiple stops.

Some of these companies will only do one trip to your event, then one trip out, even if they do multiple stops. This will require you to advise your guests they need to be ready to board the shuttle at specific times. It does save your family and friends from having to worry about coordinating carpools.

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Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Creative event videos and online sharing

Creative event videos online and Sharing services are so important

It is no surprise that videos online have made a difference in each and every one of our lives. Articles and photographs are excellent to read and look at but many of us want a personal message. If you are going to buy a certain product, just reading a description and looking at a photo may not do ti for you. However, by watching a video you may discover that this is something that you must have. Actually, videos are excellent for marketing purposes, but that is not all that they are good for.

Such sites as You Tube and other affiliated websites capture all of the must see snip bits of life . Whether it is an American beauty pageant contestant face planting it during the competition or a weightlifter breaking his arm, these video sharing services have it all. You will never miss one of these exciting events as long as you can share videos online. They are also excellent learning devices. Depending on where you live, or if you forget something, you can simply look up a video where someone explains a movement or a dance for example to you as if it were a one on one tutor. You will be able to see this dance from all angles and receive friendly advice from the person staring in this online video.

Example is a creative wedding video in Hawaii

Even education can be furthered by short 10 minute tutorials a day. You can learn a foreign language (or at least the basics) by logging on and searching for it. You will have the pronunciation and a verbal explanation of grammatical rules. This is much more beneficial than reading and hearing a small sound bite of particular words.

the benefits to sharing video services and these videos go way beyond the use of words and straight into the visual impact of story telling.Therefore, anything you want to see or learn to do is readily available to watch on video. Knowledge is power and you can share your own personal thoughts using online videos as a personal way to express yourself. You can teach others about your culture and help others understand what is going on in the other half of the world, without being tainted by the media, censorship or politics. You can hear real people voice their opinions all for free.

You will also be able to use these videos as a marketing tool which is not advertised on local TV but to the world. As hard as it is to forget, there are very few limitations to the internet making it accessible around the world. If you have a popular ad, you are not going to just have national clients but you are going to have people writing to you and calling you from all over the world.

Nevertheless there are a few drawbacks. One of which is that the information you are receiving may not necessarily be true. Therefore, you must take this information openly. With a little additional research you will be able to tell if it is true and a reliable source. Otherwise, the benefits of online videos and the free access to them made possible by video sharing services is unsurpassable.

by Paul of Hawaii weddings

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Maui and Oahu Wedding ideas

InStyle Weddings Winter Issue (Magazine) -- which features several wedding settings from the “Simple Stunning Weddings” book.

info taken from Maui weddings

1.) Ceremony: Brief secular ceremony

2.) Location: Beach (barefoot in the sand)

· Seating - A few white folding chairs or white plastic benches on the beach for the few guests in attendance

3.) Décor: Reference “Simple Stunning Weddings” – “Beach” chapter (begins on page 148). See photos on pages 151, 152, 159. Suggestions:

· Flower petals down the "aisle" and a combination of a few flowers, greenery, candles, sea shells, and torches

Hawaii beach wedding

· Potentially an arch, trellis, canopy, or tulle…would need to get your suggestions…see your designs…definitely a must .

· Simple galvanized steel or white enamel large “French” flower pails (weighted with sand) filled with long, undulating grasses to build an “altar” / “foundation” and to frame the ceremony space (see photos below). To add interest, add few long stemmed flowers white flowers (such as a few long-stemmed white calla lilies)

· A few additional decorative elements to “personalize” and enhance the space, by adding a few simple, inexpensive decorative items around the flower pail “foundation.” These items could include things such as:

1. Large glass vase with a large white pillar candle and filled with sand and shells

2. Smaller scale glass vase filled with simple floral arrangement

· Color scheme: Shades of white and cream with green as an accent color (sea foam / celadon type of green). To incorporate more of the green, and to contrast the informal beach setting with a more “refined” look and feel, I think velvet ribbon sashes in sea foam / celadon / sage green (possibly with other natural elements such as seashells and raffia) used to enhanced the galvanized pails (around the rim / top), glass candle holders, and wrapped around the stems of the flowers in the vases and bridal bouquet would be lovely. examples are found

@ beach wedding site

· Simple galvanized steel or white enamel wind proof lanterns with candles to line the “aisle” (lining the aisle with lanterns is a “nice to have” and not a must -- and I would have very limited seating…only expecting 10-20 guests)

· Torch (or torches) behind pail / décor groupings (see Crate and Barrel photo; also traditional “tiki” torches).

By Dewi @ Hawaii wedding packages @ islandweddings@hotmail.com