It’s been two months since our wedding and we, and our guests, still can’t stop raving about our wedding weekend. Much of that credit goes to Katy for pulling off the best wedding ever. We hired Katy to plan our wedding and welcome dinner. She’s not cheap and the wedding wasn’t either. Expect to blow your budget, but you pay for what you get (we spent ~$2,800/guest for the weekend) and trust us, it was well worth it. Katy is one of a kind, and clearly multiple levels above other wedding planners. If you’re looking for a luxurious, highly personalized wedding, one that truly accentuates your love and journey, hire Katy, she’s your gal. She knows what she’s doing! I can’t imagine us having even close to the experience we had without her. Many gave us the advice that something always goes wrong at your wedding, just let it go, but our wedding, under Katy’s leadership, was flawless. We can't underscore enough how critical Katy was in making our wedding weekend the best time ever.

Katy is super organized, professional, and she’s an amazing designer. There were many instances where both of us were decision-paralized particularly during the design phase. After a few questions and yay-or-nays on pictures, Katy knew exactly what we wanted. It’s like she read our mind, and then delivered. From our wedding vision, to big ticket items to the smallest details, it can get overwhelming. Our advice: trust her and listen to her advice because she knows exactly what she’s doing and she’ll get it done so you have peace of mind. We had our dream wedding and all of our guests lamented about how it was “the most special and beautiful wedding they had ever been to,” still to this day, and even the ones who had been to multiple weddings at our venue before. We had a very “us” experience… this was no cookie-cutter thing. We prioritized food, drinks, and entertainment, and boy-oh-boy was that done right. Katy is connected to all the best vendors on the island. Fine Champagne and caviar flown in, best chef in Maui, bartender, vocalist and playlist. In addition, got difficult family dynamics? No problem, Katy handles it kindly, with the utmost professionalism, making sure you have nothing to worry about so you can truly enjoy your special day. We’d do it all over again!

My husband and I hired Katy to plan our 2022 wedding in summer of 2021. We interviewed a few wedding planners and the clear choice was Katy. She was always very prompt in responding and very organized. It was an uncertain time when we first talked to Katy, not knowing how long Hawaii’s safe travels program would last and what restrictions the venue would have on our wedding day. Despite this being completely out of her control, Katy really helped guide us through the wedding planning process. She provided frequent reassurances, insights as to how local vendors were handling the situation and updates on Hawaii’s latest guidelines.

The amount of choices planning a wedding can get really overwhelming and this is really where Katy excels. She sets up a few planning sessions asking about our taste, our vision, our budget, any photos we wanted to share and then presented a few options. This made it much easier to narrow down and not have to spend as much time sorting through a bunch of options. The vendors we ended up going with that Katy recommended were also so incredible. All were very prepared and organized, and we were in love with the decorations, hair and makeup, photography and videography.

The day before and wedding day were no different. Katy thought of every little detail, down to bringing nice pens for signing the marriage certificate, and second by second planning for the ceremony. Katy is great to work with and we’d definitely recommend Katy as a wedding planner!

We had an amazing experience with Katy after our original wedding coordinator situation changed due to org changes with our venue as a result of the pandemic. We were matched with Katy and VOWS and it couldn't have been a better silver lining for a postponed COVID wedding. Katy was super responsive, scheduled several calls with us to ensure she understood our vision and what was most important to us. She also has so much expertise in the design element of wedding planning and was able to take what we were trying to communicate and turn it into a reality by sharing photos, recommending vendors, etc. She handled so many complex logistics for us that took so much stress off me (transportation pickups, gift bag shipments, multiple vendors, etc) and made sure that no matter what happened day-of, I was blissfully ignorant of any hiccups which was so appreciated! She was just the right amount of enthusiastic and serious the day of our wedding to ensure everything went according to plan - the perfect energy you need in a wedding planner. I HIGHLY recommend Katy if you are looking for a wedding planner in Maui - future couples will be so lucky to be in her hands to ensure a perfect day!