Using Outside (Non- AHW) Primary Vendors

Our vendors work together as a team to give you the best possible experience, service, and products in the very short amount of time. Outside vendors can upset this balance and actually affect the quality of the products and services we provide you.

Destination weddings are usually, tightly choreographed affairs where you're trying the get the most, hopefully from the best, for the least amount of money, which usually means in the least and most reasonable amount of time.

To suggest (as one website does) that, hiring an assortment of vendors, will produce the same outcome as using a "team of practiced professionals" who are familiar with each others idiosyncrocies and quirks is just ridiculous. Why do you think that syphony orchestras or ballet companies, which are filled with "professionals", have rehearsal after rehearsal? It makes for a better performance and when you have only one "show", the wedding, you'd have to agree that it can really make the difference.

You get a limo that comes late, gets lost, or drives away with the rings because the driver wanted to squeeze in an extra fare, you've got a problem. You have a photographer who takes too long or a minister who talks too much, you've got a problem. You have a minister who continually blocks the photographer's angles, you've got a problem. You get a video guy who blocks the photographer, you have a problem. We don't like problems at weddings and neither will you!

Our vendors work together as a team to give you the best possible experience, service, and products in the very short amount of time. Outside vendors can upset this balance and actually affect the quality of the products and services we provide you.

If you are paying a wedding Planner/Coordinator $600 to $2000 for advice or whatever they're doing for you, it's not their position to tell you who you should hire and they can "red flag" other websites who do. But, if you're using a destination wedding website which only charges you vendor fees with no extra $600 to $2000 P/C fee tacked on, you have to expect that they (we) will either want you to use their services or will place restrictions upon outside vendors.

After all, you can't bring your own food and drink to a hotel reception, you can't bring in your own cake unless you are having a reception of a minimum expenditure, you can't bring your own minister to a church, etc. and where you may be allowed to do so, you can expect a fee and/or restrictions. After all, whether it's a hotel, church, ceremony site, or service provider website, it's part of the business!

The truth is that, all destination wedding websites make a little from their vendors. With our website, you are paying LESS than you would have you found them yourself, got them from the hotel, or got them from a P/C, for the highest quality top Hawaii wedding vendors, most of whom you cannot get on any other Hawaii destination wedding website!

And by the way, our primary photographer has been a recognized, well respected, top Hawaii wedding photographer for over 20 years (as are most of our vendors) so, if you are truly concerned about the quality of your photography, you cannot do better. FYI: We don't even recognized the photographers names on most websites.