We weren’t sure if we wanted to have our wedding on Big Island, but after our first call with Kate, it was clear that her team was invaluable and we were sure they were the team we wanted to work with. During the planning process, you can trust Sunshower to ensure your timeline, budget, and tasks are on track. They bring SO much value with their expertise and knowledge of the island, vendors, and wedding timelines. Kate was so informative with her advice and was dedicated to bringing our vision to life. She advocated for our wants every step of the way. Our guests couldn’t stop raving about how attentive, friendly, and on top of everything their staff was on the wedding day. When I realized we couldn’t do our first dance in the dress I was planning to, Kate immediately reassured me and adjusted the timeline to accommodate a dress change, without anyone noticing the hiccup, and took away any stress that we were feeling. We can’t imagine our wedding without them, and we’re still hearing from guests that it was the best wedding they’ve ever attended. We could go on and on about how Sunshower Weddings is the BEST choice for wedding planning on Big Island. We can’t emphasize enough how valuable their expertise of the island is.

Thank you again Kate & team for helping us have the wedding of our dreams!

Planning a wedding overseas is a difficult task, however, Sunshower Weddings made this difficult task not only easy but so so enjoyable!

I always hear how people hate planning their wedding, but we had such a positive experience.

Kate and Alison are both so fun to work with, really understood the overall vision of what we wanted to create and executed it better than we could've ever imagined. They were also incredibly organised, attentive and full of information. This is really important especially not being local, we never felt like we weren't taken care of every step of the way.

Their recommendations for local vendors was so helpful, especially finding those who also were incredible at what they do while fitting the vibe of what we wanted to create.

On the day they were the best to have around and made our experience just so wonderful and stress-free. We would recommend them a million times over!!

Colby & Gavin

It is evident from the nearly 50 5-star reviews that the Sunshower team can coordinate a wedding. They can help you find a bar company, plan your timeline, give floral recommendations, arrange a shuttle service, help you design your tablescape — all probably in their sleep.

Instead I want to hopefully highlight the numerous ways they consistently went above and beyond what you would typically expect, and some of the intangibles you might not think of when considering a wedding planner.

TL;DR -- it doesn't get better than Sunshower.

Guidance
I feel like the whole point (or one of the main points) of hiring a wedding planner, is to have someone to guide you and open your eyes to different ways of doing things that you would not have thought of yourself. Alison (our assigned coordinator) did exactly that at every step in the process. I can confidently say that our wedding would not have looked the way it did, or ran as smoothly as it did, if it wasn’t for Alison’s (and Kate’s!) expert recommendations and advice. That was another thing I also appreciated — if Alison was unsure of something, she had no problem bringing in Kate to help us solve the problem.

Collaboration
We both felt listened to throughout the whole process, and felt that Alison was working hard to make sure that everything we were booking, was going to align with our expectations. It felt like a true collaborative process where she listened to, interpreted our desires, provided us with options, and then executed.

Agility
When we came to Sunshower, we already had a venue booked. However, 6 months before our wedding, the venue canceled our reservation. I have never seen anybody act with such a sense of urgency and TBH, Alison + Kate may have been more stressed out than we were 😂 Within 48 hours, we had the contract to a new venue in our inbox. ALSO, it was a venue that had never hosted a wedding before and was on none of the wedding websites, so there’s literally a 0% chance we would’ve found this place without them.

Another fun thing that happened was that we lost power on the day of the wedding (blame the town of Hawi)! For the hours preceding and the first ~1.5 hours of the wedding, there was literally 0 power. None of our guests would’ve known though! They handled the situation with such ease and professionalism, and had generators there faster than you could’ve ordered a pizza. And STILL managed to execute 100% of the details + the flow of our wedding.

Day of
There was truly not 1 thing either of us had to decide on, plan, help with, etc. on the day of the wedding. They made sure everything was in place and that we were truly relaxed for the entirety of the day. I have no idea how everything got set up, when each vendor arrived, where the generators were, where the shuttle buses parked, where the food was cooked — and that’s exactly what I wanted. The peace of mind on the day of the wedding is alone worth the cost.

Okay I’ll stop, but seriously, just book with Sunshower. Especially if you are off-island, you can trust that they will get the job done. Thank you Kate and Alison and Sunshower team!!!!!!