Choosing Sunshower Weddings was the best decision we made for our Big Island wedding. They handled every detail with such professionalism, making our day completely stress-free. We loved that they not only understood our vision but brought creative ideas to the table we wouldn't have considered. A huge thank you to Falynn and the whole team for making our day so perfect.

Sunshower Weddings did a truly amazing job with helping us have the wedding day of our dreams, that totally exceeded all my expectations. If you’re getting married on the Big Island, this company is a must! Shout out to Alison or day of coordinator, who not only made sure our special day ran smooth and stress free, but also helped us with planning hours along the way. People though planning a destination wedding would be hard, but Alison made it incredibly easy. Everything fell into place perfectly. She knows this island and the other vendors like the bac of her hand, and the other vendors have nothing but GREAT things to say about Sunshower Weddings in general. I can’t say enough positive things about this wonderful company, who helped make us feel so at home on the Big Island!

Kate, Samantha, and the rest of the team at Sunshower Weddings and Events are truly awesome! If you're getting married on the Big Island, please consider reaching out to them!

Sunshower helped me with securing a wedding room block for our guests. They can help with room blocks even if you're not a wedding planning/coordination client! And, at no cost to you!

Samantha and Kate were great! They have excellent relationships with many hotels (which was incredibly helpful for me since I grew up on the Hilo side of the island and am not familiar with any of the hotels in Kona). They explained how a wedding room block works and recommended hotels close to our wedding venue. Once I gave them our guest estimate and our short list of hotels, they went to work contacting the hotels for quotes and even asked about wheelchair accessibility (which was a very important consideration for me). And they negotiated an AMAZING rate with the hotel we ultimately chose!

Samantha and Kate were accommodating and very patient with me. I had so many questions and thoughts (so much so that I was definitely concerned that I was being a huge pain), but they were always kind and reassuring through the entire process.

I would highly recommend Sunshower Weddings and Events to help secure you wedding room block. They are incredibly professional, thorough, and patient. They made the whole process so easy. Thank you Kate, Samantha, and Sunshower!!

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!

Super professional, knowledgeable and helpful. Knows Hawaii in and out! Thank you so much for helping us to make such important decisions.

Working with Sunshower Wedding and Event was hands down the best decision we made for our wedding, we cannot recommend them enough! From our very first meeting, it was clear that Kate was genuinely invested in our vision. She took the time to listen carefully to our ideas, preferences, and even our concerns, ensuring that every detail aligned with what we dreamed of for our special day. We knew after that call we had made the right decision.

When Alison was assigned as our lead wedding coordinator we were even more confident that we made the right decision going with Sunshower. Throughout the planning process, Alison maintained open communication, providing us with updates and options that fit our budget and style. Her expertise shone through in the way she managed vendor relationships and coordinated logistics, which significantly alleviated our stress. One of the best things about working with Sunshower was their amazing vendor list. The list made it so easy to choose vendors to make our day special. We would have never found Obama the Llama without the vendor list.

On the day of the wedding, everything went seamlessly. Alison and her team orchestrated the event flawlessly, allowing us to focus on enjoying the moment rather than worrying about the details. Our guests were so impressed with how every aspect of our wedding flowed seamlessly.

One of my biggest fears was that what I had pictured in my head would not be what the wedding looked like. All of those fears disappeared when I looked out at the ceremony and reception spaces. It was evident that Alison had truly brought our vision to life, creating an atmosphere that felt uniquely us. It was absolutely perfect, it blew any vision I had out of the water.

If you are planning on getting married on the Big Island we cannot recommend Sunshower enough. Our experience with Alison, Kate, and the entire Sunshower team was exceptional. Their professionalism, creativity, and attentiveness made our wedding day not just a celebration but a cherished memory. If you're looking for a wedding planner who truly listens and delivers, Sunshower is the one to choose!

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!!!!!!

You have found the right people to help plan your event. The team at Sunshower Weddings and Events is capable, organized, client oriented and efficient. Kate and Alison helped us build an experience that we and our guests were able to enjoy and blew us all away.

Neither my husband nor I had strong opinions about what we wanted our day to look like, but we did know what we wanted it to feel like. We wanted an intimate, relaxed, fun, and loving wedding day. That is exactly what Sunshower helped us create.

On our first call, Kate provided the exact amount of direction we needed and helped us make and confirm decisions about venues, caterers, photography, and music. She even texted some of the vendors while we were on zoom and we got responses within the hour. After this first call, we knew we were in good hands.

Kate and the team provided three different budgets and options within those budgets that we could approve or disregard to help keep us on track for our costs. These budgets were incredible detailed and allowed us to plan for things that we absolutely would have missed without them!

We worked with Alison to finalize details of the day. Alison helped us to create a stunning wedding that captured all of the feelings we set out to experience on our day. In addition to cultivating these feelings with design choices, she followed up with vendors and helped us find solutions for any obstacles that came up. She created a schedule that was sent to each vendor that kept everyone on the same page without a day-of coordinator. Things ran so smoothly on the day because of Alison's organization and communication with our vendors.

The Sunshower Team managed to do all this while my husband was in Australia (where we live), my family was on the east coast, and I was traveling for work. There were often 3 or 4 time zones managed in one call.

We could not have created this day without the team at Sunshower. The cost of our planning hours were MORE than worth the ease of the day and the connections of the team. You will absolutely be in the most capable hands with the team at Sunshower. Congrats on finding them, they will exceed your expectations!

We live in California and settled on a venue in Kona sight unseen and without Sunshower Weddings, I think we would have had a hodge podge of a wedding.

We had calls with several wedding planners but it was after our meeting with Cami and Kate, we knew we found our planner. They were organized and thoughtful in their approach of the panning process and execution. From the initial meeting we knew no detail would be forgotten. Their vendor list and recommendations were honest and invaluable.

A big shoutout to Cami who not only made sure our wedding day ran smoothly, she guided us through the entire planning process. Asking all the right questions and patiently helping us with decisions that otherwise would have been overwhelming.

As the bride, I heard several times throughout that day that I didn’t look at all stressed and it was because I wasn’t! Without Cami and Sunshower Weddings, I truly believe we wouldn’t have been able to enjoy our wedding as much as we did.