Cherished in Hawaii Weddings Reviews
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James Sent on 10/10/2024Highly recommend
To be honest, I was quite skeptical at first as I have heard many horror stories pertaining to hiring wedding coordinators. This was not the case. Jayvee and team went above and beyond on our special day and ensured us that the event went smoothly. I cannot thank you guys enough for your creativity and your efforts for making us enjoy our wedding. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND their services to any couple who are planning to tie the knot in Hawaii. Expect referrals from our network within Canada.
James & Karen
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Nicole Sent on 12/16/2023
Highly recommend!
Our destination wedding day on Oahu was nothing short of perfection, and we owe so much of that to Mina, Allison, and Jayvee. From the initial consultation to the last dance, CIHW demonstrated exceptional attention to detail and organizational process. They flawlessly executed our vision, turning dreams into reality. Their calming presence and expert coordination ensured a stress-free celebration for us and our guests. Our wedding guests kept telling us it was one of the most beautiful and best weddings they have ever been to. One of the things that we were most concerned was keeping within our floral budget without compromising on our vision for the wedding. CIHW was able to help us with this and we were so impressed with how they were able to make it work within our floral budget. If you're looking for a wedding planner who goes above and beyond to make your day truly special, look no further than CIHW. We are so grateful for their expertise and highly recommend their services! -
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Linda Sent on 12/11/2023
Very professional and a pleasure to work with
Jayvee, Mina and their team were there every step of the way during the planning process. They were very professional, worked with our vendors and communicated to us all the details we needed. There were some elements of our wedding that was non-traditional, but Jayvee made sure that she understood those aspects and created the wedding of our dreams.
If there were any constructive criticism, I would've liked better communication regarding budget and how much everything was going to cost since I did not receive some invoices until the month of the wedding.
Overall, all my guests enjoyed the wedding and every detail was close to what I had envisioned on the wedding day. -
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Emily Sent on 06/26/2023Amazing help - a must if doing an outdoor wedding
We are so grateful to have the CHW team help us with our wedding. They were extremely flexible in working with us and the day of went off without a hitch. They even worked through the rain we had to contend with on the day of! A few areas I think they’re very strong in are (1) setting up décor with an artistic eye the day of (2) recommending vendors within your budget and (3) being very detail oriented with day of scheduling & planning. I would absolutely recommend getting a planner if doing an outdoor Hawaii wedding like we did, and CHW really helped to make the process smoother for us. My only nit would be that at times it felt like vendor selection via CHW was going a bit slower than we would have liked – but I think that is in large part a reality of Hawaii vendors (island time is a real thing). -
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Andrey Sent on 04/21/2023Destination Wedding Must!
We made contact with CIHW in 2019 to plan for our wedding in the summer of 2020 not knowing that COVID would change everything. The months leading up to our planned wedding date were stressful to say the least, not only were we planning for a wedding, but we also had no certainty that the pandemic would end and when we would be able to celebrate our marriage. Plans kept getting pushed back as travel was restricted and the reality of a destination wedding became merely a dream. We did not want lose hope and we still wanted to support the wedding business in Hawaii so we kept our deposits and continued to postpone our wedding for the unforseeable future.
Meetings over zoom with Mina, Jayvee, and their staff was therapeutic in a way as they continued to give us hope and were constantly updating us about the new travel restrictions and gathering limitations that Hawaii would have. They were always positive and made us feel that our dream wedding was in reach and they would do everything they could in their power to make it happen. We decided to do Full Wedding Planning services and we do not regret it one bit. From start to finish, CIHW was available for us every step of the way.
Finally in the summer of 2022, we were able to hold our wedding with minimal COVID-19 restrictions. Jayvee and Allison were our wedding day coordinators and everything they had planned for in our wedding day timeline went as planned. If there were any hiccups in the plan, we did not even notice it because we are sure that they took care of it right away. As weddings go, we only had a few bites from our plates but they made sure we were taken care of with plenty of food and desserts from our menu to take home. We had our dream wedding go exactly how we wanted, all thanks to this tireless team of coordinators and vendors. For anyone looking for amazing and dependable wedding coordinators, we highly recommend CIHW!
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Elizabeth Sent on 03/04/2023Our Dream Wedding
I cannot speak highly enough of the Cherished in Hawaii Weddings team. Planning a destination wedding required us to make a lot of decisions without seeing or tasting anything ourselves, so the local knowledge they provided was invaluable.
The team helped us find the venue of our dreams and did the majority of liaising with them. We decided to choose one of their packages, allowing us to use the vendors they knew would be amazing, and saving us tons of time in researching and vetting each one. In hindsight it was a great choice as everything was wonderful!
The offiant they selected was cheerful, funny, and sincere. The DJ did the most to mix our favourite songs in with ones he knew would get people onto the dance floor. I left most of the décor decisions up to the team and I was blown away by what they were able to put together.
The photographer they recommend was excellent and ran circles around us, providing us with so many shots that we will cherish (no pun intended) forever. We had a videographer as well that produced such an amazing video to share with our friends and family that could not attend.
We were really impressed with the food choices offered with the packages. Everything was so delicious and all of our guests let us know how much they liked it afterwards. The baker they work with also offered a really great selection of cake flavours. We went with strawberries and cream for the first layer and chocolate raspberry for the second layer. It was delicious, no dry wedding cake here!
Allison was our head coordinator. She was a dream to work with. Throughout the planning process she was always available to answer questions and put our concerns at ease. Where she really shone, though, was the day of. She was everywhere. She made sure everyone knew where to go, and what to do. Having her around allowed me to let go, relax, and actually enjoy the wedding! She really is a wedding fairy godmother.
At the end of the day I wouldn't have done anything differently. Our guests kept telling us that the wedding was like something you see in the movies. If you're looking to plan your dream wedding, look no further than the Cherished in Hawaii Weddings team! -
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Adrian Sent on 12/18/2022
Simply the BEST!
We had a great experience working with Mina and her team! They went above and beyond to bring the vision of our wedding day to realization! We can't stop talking about what amazing people they all are and what a privilege it was to work with them. If you want the wedding of your dreams CIHW will make it happen! -
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Jesus Sent on 12/16/2022
Amazing Destination Wedding
They say planning a wedding is stressful but we didn’t experience that the entire time despite us having a destination wedding. Mina and Jayvee did a great job meeting with us virtually on a regular basis and provided a clear breakdown of the things we needed to do to ensure we had an amazing wedding day. They also encouraged and delivered on our requests to have a photo bus and even a fire dancer!
Our guests said it was by far the best wedding they’d ever been to and that couldn’t have happened without the Cherished in Hawaii team! -
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Janice Sent on 08/25/2022Wouldn't have made it through the day without CIHW!
We booked the partial coordination package back in early 2020 for our May 2021 wedding. Lo and behold, COVID came & we had to postpone our wedding to May 2022, so we worked with Mina, Jayvee & Pam for 2 years in ironing out details of our wedding. Even though our package only included partial coordinating, they were so helpful every step of the way and offered advice in areas that were not included as part of the package. CIHW was so helpful in helping us organize communication with the vendors, ESPECIALLY when it came to postponing and figuring out new dates/timelines for everything. Our wedding was at Lanikuhonua, which was basically a blank slate venue so we had to plan literally everything - arch, decor, cutlery, even down to the number of trash bags....but CIHW helped us manage all of it. They made our lives so much easier with their expertise in the wedding industry, and knowing exactly what is needed. It was especially helpful because we're from NYC and knew nothing about the Hawaii wedding industry.
Mina kicked off most planning convos, and then either Pam or Jayvee took over. Towards the end of it, Jayvee ran point on mainly everything. She was also our POC for anything leading up to the big day, and ran point on the day of. It's amazing how she was able to manage all of it, especially with so many weddings going on right now. We are so grateful to her and the rest of the CIHW team. She even took time out of her day to pick up a check from our hotel in Waikiki for one of our vendors before the wedding, so our payment wouldn't be delinquent.
On the day of, EVERYONE (especially my MOH, who had the most contact with Jayvee) raved about how smoothly the day went. I didn't have to worry at ALL about anything other than not tripping down the aisle and my vows...the CIHW team handled everything. We had 3 coordinators on site that day and they were so involved yet worked so smoothly & seamlessly that you forgot they were even there, because that's how good they were. They were wedding ninjas. Allison was there anytime I needed her, or needed to be reminded of the next item on our wedding day schedule. The day literally flies by so fast, but Allison & Jayvee did an amazing job at guiding us from one event to another on our wedding day (and even brought us shave ice from our shave ice vendor so we could try it!!). They also helped pack up everything for us to bring back at the end of the night. We literally would not have made it through the day without them.
I'm super Type A and did lots of digging into all vendors, including ones that CIHW did not recommend to make sure we knew what ALL of our options were, so the partial coordination package was perfect for us because we were able to lean on CIHW for local advice when needed but also allowed me to do all my own research. I was super super grateful that CIHW jumped in to manage ALL communication with ALL vendors in the weeks leading up to the wedding. We also added malasadas and transportation super last minute (literally 2 weeks prior) and CIHW did not hesitate to reach out to the vendors and handle all of the communication for us. It eased the burden by SO MUCH when it came to ironing out all the final details!!
So so grateful to the CIHW team for helping us plan the biggest party of our lives!! -
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Leticia Sent on 08/04/2022Wouldn’t recommend
Where to even begin.. I felt like I used a live google... When you think of a wedding planner you'd think that you tell them what you like and are looking for and they go and do the leg work. Sadly this was not the case. For example, I shared the style of photography I was looking for and instead of getting a list of photographers with like styles and different price ranges for budget purposes I received a google list... and what I mean is that I could've literally just searched for "photographers in Honolulu" and a list would pop up ... nothing narrowed down ti the style I wanted... I had to then take the list they gave me and go through each one , which most had dark not soft and bright lighting like I said I was looking for. This was the case with Mostly every vendor. So if you want full service they do the leg work this is not the place.
Having to repeat myself constantly and correct them on things I had asked for was stressful as you can imagine. I feared the worst and one of the items I constantly repeated myself was that I needed an 8 passenger limo to accommodate for the rest of my guests that didn't fit in the 64 passenger shuttle we hired... on my wedding day I walk out, shuttle already gone and three extra people that did not fit in the small limo that picked me up... my mother in law had to ride in the front with the driver and we had to uncomfortably squeeze in the other two in the back to drive 30plus minutes to our ceremony.
There is zero to no concern for your budget. Not once did they ever say hey we are at this amount let's look at these vendors maybe replace xyz... We rented a tent as we had an outdoor venue and we wanted to add greenery to the tent polls, real greenery was very expensive, you'd think they'd offer a back up ... instead I had to ask can we use artificial as it's more cost effective etc. We supposedly rented the bigger tent which had 4 poles in the middle and that I needed to double up on the artificial greenery so that it would look nice.... Well the tent was not the one with 4 poles in the middle ... it was the smaller tent ... when I asked on my wedding day wasn't it supposed to be the bigger tent the planner responded "this is the bigger tent".... It was not they had showed us the bigger tent on a call vs what we had and I also had previously looked it up
On the rental company's website... (no word of reimbursement etc all I know is that was not the tent I was promised and they made me buy extra greenery.
Speaking of extra money spent... I rented items from them that I did not get.. like they said I needed to rent the flower girl baskets from them because they wouldn't come from the vendor ... they did .... I rented ring bearer pillows from them ... my ring bearers walked in empty handed and the wedding planner never thought of making sure they had the rings... no refund for those items either and god know how many other items as I was not gonna spend another minute of my wedding day doing something the wedding planner should've done.
Like meeting me at my limo when it arrived to let me know when to enter as my fiancé would not see me until the altar... the limo driver had to go and ask her ...
I am very disappointed of the service and treatment I received from them. I could write more and explain more reasons why it was terrible service but I don't want to waste anymore of my time and you shouldn't either if you are looking for a wedding planner that will care, listen do the leg work and be mindful of your budget.
P.S if you have people with food allergies they aren't mindful either... I had to ask, as they forgot even when the information was provided. -
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Richard Sent on 06/01/2022So Grateful for CIHW!!
We had fantastic experience working with Mina, Jayvee, Allison, and the rest of the CIHW team! We really appreciated their attention to detail, how easy it was to work with them, and their expertise in the industry.
We started working with CIHW 6 months before our wedding. Throughout the planning process, we felt that they really took the time to understand our wishes and ideas, while offering valuable suggestions when appropriate.
Up until the day of the wedding, the CIHW team was in constant contact with us to make sure all of our bases were covered. When Jayvee showed up in her combat boots on the day of our event, we knew that business would be taken care of! Our wedding couldn’t have gone any smoother and thanks to the CIHW team, we were truly able to enjoy the day with our family and friends! We also received lots of compliments about how organized and coordinated everything was.
If we were to do it all over again, we would choose this incredible team, without hesitation! A huge MAHALO to the CIHW team for creating a forever memorable event for us!!! -
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Sonya Sent on 02/26/2022Wonderful, professional and highly experienced planner
We worked with Cherished in Hawaii to plan a destination wedding in Hawaii. Living in NYC, frequent planning trips to Hawaii was out of question, so it was very important for us to work with a trustworthy planner. Specifically, we were looking for someone who understood our style/vision during the initial consultation (done remotely), had a great local network & knowledge about different venues, and could recommend us the best vendors (even the ones that were less advertised). We are so pleased that CIHW checked all those boxes.
The team is extremely competent and experienced; it became obvious to us pretty quickly that they have done this hundreds of times over and that things will be done with little to no margins of error. Once we got to the final couple months till the wedding, we began to see the months of planning come together in a beautiful idea board. Even though we didn’t have a chance to visit our wedding venue (Lanikuhonua) until one month before the wedding, the CIHW team (especially Jayvee who led the layout planning, decor and the day-of coordination) already seemed to have an idea about how our visions and ideas could be implemented, based on their experience of having worked with the venue and the vendor line up multiple times. They knew exactly what they were doing, had a clear playbook/checklist, impressive pattern recognition, all the while helping us create a unique wedding we had in mind.
All of the vendors they recommended were excellent, though at times I was a little skeptical of some of them as they didn’t have the fanciest website or social media presence. I now know better to just trust them!! :) We had a super last minute, unexpected change to our rental order and Jayvee handled it impeccably. Pam was super responsive with our last minute changes to the limo bookings. Both of them were fully plugged in responding to our messages at all times despite the time difference between NY and HI. We received so many compliments on our decor, caterer and the cake/dessert vendor, and our wedding party absolutely LOVED working with the make-up artist and the photographer too.
Without a doubt I would 100% recommend CIHW to anyone planning a wedding in Hawaii/Oahu. They have been such a joy to work with and we are so thankful to the team for working so hard to make our wedding day an absolute dream! -
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James Sent on 10/19/2021Cherished in Hawaii did an amazing job!!!
Mina and her team helped us design our wedding vision from the inception to the wedding day. They created a beautiful green, gold and white color scheme, they know all the best wedding photographers and the food their vendor catered was delicious. They put together a clean timeline for us follow on the day of the wedding so that we could enjoy our day without worrying about anything wedding related aside from looking our best. -
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