We planned our February 2020 wedding over the course of 2019 with Laura at Parasol Events, and she was the perfect partner to plan a destination wedding with. Laura has an incredible network on Oahu, and definitely saved us money beyond the cost of hiring her. She knows absolutely everyone you need to put together a wedding, and we would have been completely lost without her expertise.

Laura is a delight to work with, and we often found ourselves enjoying casual conversation in addition to wedding planning. On the day-of, Laura ran a tight ship and kept everything moving on time. As the evening wore on, Laura made sure to let us know who at our venue was running the banquet and keeping an eye on our host bar so we wouldn’t spend ourselves out of house and home. Since we had a destination wedding and could not take the floral arrangements home with us, we asked Laura for some help donating the arrangements and bridal bouquet, and she brought them to a retirement home, which meant a lot to us since we could not have our own grandparents celebrate with us during our special day.

Whether you live in Honolulu or not, Laura Lewis at Parasol Events is the top call wedding planner in the city.

Selecting Parasol Events as our coordinators was the single best decision we made for our wedding.

I decided to hire a wedding planner for several reasons: my free time is limited, this was a semi-destination wedding, and I had a very vague vision on what the Big Day would be like. I phone interviewed several "top" wedding coordinators on the island. When speaking with Laura, it was obvious that her experiences and breadth of knowledge of the wedding industry would not only lower the stress of wedding planning, but will actually make this a fun process!

Parasol Events helped make the entire wedding planning process creative, enjoyable, individualized, and meaningful. Both Laura and Jessica were extremely professional, organized, timely, and personable. They also collaborated well together at helping me figure out what I wanted. Often times, the service with Parasol Events was so exceptionally outstanding that I felt that I was their only client! For example, when my fiancé and I wanted to learn a choreographed wedding couples’ hula dance to surprise our guests. Laura and Jessica found a self-teaching DVD for my fiancé to learn while in Afghanistan and myself to learn in the East Coast, then they organized a dance lesson a week before the wedding (which required coordination of an instructor and studio) so we can practice together in Hawaii. It was an extremely amusing idea, and our guests were tickled to see us pull it off!

Also, should anything go wrong, you will be so grateful to have Parasol Events on your side. In short, a month prior to our wedding date, the wedding venue we reserved cancelled. Within 48 hours, I had a list of venues that were available on our wedding date and able to accommodate our wedding size, and list of pros/cons. We were able to transform a nightmare situation into an even more gorgeous wedding than I could imagine. For many reasons, I give Parasol Events the highest recommendations possible!

We used Parasol events (Laura-Ann Lewis) to help to organize our Hawaiian wedding in August, 2012. I was living in Australia at the time and my fiance on the mainland and I was finding it extremely difficult trying to organize the wedding from another Country. I contacted Laura at a point when I was really fed up with everything just to find out prices, and really I thought I would never be able to afford a wedding planner on my budget. Laura was fantastic right from the start and really flexible in terms of allowing me to book some things that were easier for me to do (such as the wedding ceremony and reception venues) and she took care of the other details that I found really difficult to organize (like hiring chairs, transportation, cake, flowers, musicians, wedding coordinator on the day of the ceremony etc), which allowed me to keep my costs down and stick to my budget. Everything that she organized was just perfect and exactly what I wanted. On the day of the ceremony I opted to have one of the Parasol wedding coordinators on site to make sure everything went smoothly (something I would definitely recommend). Jessica was our wedding coordinator on the day and she was also fantastic. Everything went smoothly. If you are getting married in Hawaii and wish to hire a coordinator I can’t recommend Parasol enough. Laura and Jessica made my day absolutely perfect and I can’t thank them enough.