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Exclusive Island Weddings

Exclusive Island Weddings

Kahului, HI
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    Seanna P. Sent on 07/31/2023
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    10/10 would recommend

    Kim did an amazing job from preplanning to day-of coordination. She has a great list of vendors which made it easy to plan a destination wedding. She was organized, responsive, and respectful of our budget. I don't plan on getting married again, but if I did, I would choose Kim to plan it.
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    Sami H. Sent on 10/06/2023
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    Amazing Experience!!

    Kim was so easy and fantastic to work with. Being that I live away from home, she was my middle person for all vendors and really put my mind at ease. Every time I had a different idea, or if I wanted to switch things up (which was every month, basically) she was always willing to roll with it, provide potential back up plans, & just made my ideas feel validated. She kept our wedding party in line when getting prepped for the big day. She also consistently followed up with vendors on my behalf whenever I had additional questions. She turned my inspo photos Pinterest to life! From floral arrangements, my bouquet, the venue setup for the reception, everything we’re from pictures I emailed her and she really, truly delivered! Since our wedding in June, I have recommended her services to several of my friends and can’t wait to see what gets produced for their big day! Highly recommend Kim for all of your wedding prep and consulting needs!!
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    Justin S. Sent on 06/07/2023
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    Amazing Wedding in Maui

    Kim and her team were fantastic! They helped accommodate for a beautiful at home wedding. She was very punctual and on top of everything well in advance and encouraged us to get tasks done in a healthy time interval to prevent too much stress on the day of the wedding. She had excellent recommendations and was amazing at coordinating food, event supplies and personally arranging amazing floral supplies. I would definitely recommend her to anyone interested in getting married in Hawaii.
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    Michele S. Sent on 06/22/2023
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    If I could give Kim 10/5 stars, I would!

    Exclusive Island weddings is run by an absolute superwoman, Kim Yonamine. We reached out to Kim about 9 months before our wedding, and during our initial consultation, she not only came prepared with questions to get a feel for our wedding vision - she also set realistic expectations with us regarding our timeline and budget. Immediately after we talked, she sent a list of vendors tailored to us. Kim is a true professional and has strong relationships within the Maui Wedding community. We always felt she had our best interests at heart and were lucky to have her as our wedding's team captain.
    In the months leading up to our wedding, Kim was always prepared for our monthly meetings, and sent us concise to-do lists to keep us on track and organized.
    During wedding week, Kim and her team worked like a well-organized machine. They were friendly but professional and we were so grateful to have them with us. In addition to planning/coordination, Kim and her team also do their own floral arrangements - they were GORGEOUS.
    Though our wedding day is a happy blur, I do know that I was not asked to put out a single fire or answer any logistical questions because Kim's team took care of everything. We could not be happier with how our wedding turned out and are so grateful to Kim and her team for all of their hard work.
    We could not recommend Exclusive Island Weddings more highly to anyone looking to get married on Maui.
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    Exclusive island weddings + kim are so amazing at what they do!

    Where do I even begin?! This review is long overdue, but I definitely need to share my experience with Kim and her incredible team of miracle workers. With that said, I also need to share that Kim with Exclusive Island Weddings stuck with me for 4 YEARS. She helped me plan a wedding before the pandemic happened, moved our wedding date twice because of the pandemic, and finally executed our wedding earlier this year. She went above and beyond my expectations of a wedding planner and I am so grateful I found her.
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    Ijeth S. Sent on 04/21/2023
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    She make things happen!

    We tied the knot a month ago and we are so glad Kim was part of the planning process. We wanted to make sure we are getting the things we wanted for our big day, (well not EVERYTHING, but majority of it) but ofcourse we knew there are going to be bumps and obstacles putting things together. So, we hired Kim and with her expertise and resources; we got to explore our options. We weren't surprise how great she was because we've heard tons of amazing things about her from friends and families. With our experience tho, we can vouch that she's beyond AMAZING! She make things looks so easy, and she definitely knows what she's doing. She laid out recommendations and possible options and once we agreed on it, she made calls and made it happen.

    We are still in awe on how everything went down and how effortless she made/guided our wedding program til the end. We highly recommend hiring Kim Yonamine and her team if you want a stress free wedding.

    Thanks Kim and more blessings to you sista! =)
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    Stephanie V. Sent on 11/21/2022
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    100% Recommend

    Exclusive Island Weddings did an incredible job for my destination wedding. We hired her about a year in advance and she went above and beyond our expectations. She made the process very easy and has so much knowledge, connections, and insight in the Maui wedding industry. I highly recommend them for your wedding. Our day was literally perfect thanks to the EIW team.
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    Kristina C. Sent on 10/02/2020
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    Dream Coordinator for your Dream Wedding

    My Fiance, Paolo, and I became engaged a few months after I graduated from college and I knew right away who I wanted as my Wedding Coordinator, Kim Yonamine.
    I had seen Kim's design work and witnessed her professionalism while I was a MOH for one of my best friend's weddings; I'd also like to mention that my best friend and I are originally from Maui, but we have moved away since highschool, so Kim has been a dream to work with because even though we both aren't on Maui to meet the vendors, Kim has been our eyes and ears on Maui for our weddings.

    Kim was very helpful with her recommendations of vendors and keeping our wedding within our desired budget. She was patient and attentive with all my questions and concerns throughout the planning process and made planning from Oahu easy-peezy. Unfortunately, my fiance and I were one of the couples who had no choice but to postpone our May 30, 2020 wedding because of the COVID-19 quarantine and travel restrictions.

    At the start of April, we had our monthly phone meeting with Kim where she explained the Maui restrictions and how our different vendors would be handling the situation. Then Kim gave us a few days to decide our next steps. We decided to postpone until 2021; We chose a few dates options that we wanted and then Kim was on it - She made calls the very next day to all our vendors and reception venue, keeping us informed as each vendor confirmed their availability. Within 2 days, Kim was able to solidify EVERYTHING! The amazing thing about Kim is she was juggling her 2020 and 2021 weddings at the same time. She was rebooking vendors and venues for her 2020 couples, while still upholding her regular scheduled meeting with her 2021 couples. She was doing this while all the couples were probably freaking out and calling her like crazy (like me! lol). She was patient and understanding through the whole process and definitely made the date transition so much more bearable.

    As we are nearing 2021, and finally reaching the alter, I know Kim has alot to do with the success of our wedding. We really can't thank her enough for her coordination and guidance!
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    Isaac K. Sent on 11/21/2022
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    Best Wedding Planner in Hawaii!!!

    My wife and I always wanted to do our wedding back in my home island of Maui, Hawaii. We are both currently in the military and stationed in Okinawa, so we knew it was going to be a challenge to plan our wedding being far away from home. One of our friends, who ended up being our wedding photographer recently her wedding at the time we were looking for planners. She was the one who recommended Kim and her team, Exclusive Island Weddings. She told us how smooth her wedding was and how it was perfect thanks to Kim's help! So no doubt we contacted Kim a little over a year out from our wedding this past September of 2022. Kim had meetings with us every month, was very professional, understanded exactly what we wanted including our budget. She made our budget very clear with updates every meeting so that we knew how much to expect. She was pretty straight forward as well and did not beat around the bush on what we needed or had to consider. She worked with every vendor and made sure our headcount matched what was being served. On the day of the wedding, nothing but beautiful execution. She made sure she was there for us - even down to making a plate of food and drink for us so that we can eat before we got bombarded with guests , photos, and videos. I wholeheartedly recommend Kim any day. If you are having a wedding on Maui, please contact Exclusive Island Weddings!!
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    Jasmine K. Sent on 09/10/2022
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    The Best Wedding Planner in Maui, HI!

    My husband and I first started working with Kim back in June 2021, and our wedding wasn’t until September 2022. We found her through a mutual friend and we knew immediately that she would be the perfect wedding planner. From the start, we worked with her only through email and through zoom calls due to living in different countries. Despite the distance, Kim always kept us on top of our timeline and budget. You would think that being in different countries would make things complicated, but that was never the case with her! She was always quick to respond, professional, and made us feel as if we were ohana because of how much she genuinely cared for us! Fast forward to our wedding day, she made our dream wedding a reality! All of the planning and small details that we discussed through the last year were brought to life and we’re executed perfectly. Throughout our wedding day, she was a superwoman and we couldn’t have done it without her! She was everywhere at once to help make sure everything was happening when it should be. She and her amazing staff took such great care of us the entire day. Whatever we needed or thought of, she was there in a flash! If you’re looking for the best wedding planner in Maui, Kim is the one!

    Thank you for everything Kim,
    The Kalas
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    Jason S. Sent on 07/18/2022
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    Best Planner on Maui

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    Wholeheartedly recommend! From the time we started planning in February of 2021 until the day of our wedding on 6/2/22, Kim was nothing short of amazing. When we began, the only thing we knew was that we wanted to get married on Maui. From there, Kim helped us every step of the way to create the most beautiful wedding we could with our budget. At the beginning, she helped us quickly find a spectacular venue that worked with us. From there, each monthly meeting got us more and more vendors who had nothing but amazing things to say about working with her, which made us feel like we made the right choice of planner. If we ever had questions, she was quickly able to get us her honest opinion, no BS, which I appreciated. She helped guide us on many things we didn’t have the slightest clue about, lowering our stress level immensely. By the time we got to Maui the week of, everything was set, which meant we could focus our energy on other things. Meeting for a final in person pre-wedding meeting, we couldn’t have been happier with how she set everything up for us. We left that meeting feeling confident in the wedding and so ready to get married. Even when the eventual issues popped up on the day of the wedding, Kim was able to quickly get them resolved after giving us her honest opinion so we could make the right decision. Her team did a wonderful job of setting up the venue to be ready, even with all-day rain. From my perspective, everything at the ceremony and reception went off without a hitch, as the rain stopped shortly after the ceremony began. Many people told me that this was the most amazing wedding they had ever been to, and it couldn’t have been that way without Kim and her team. Kim was there for us when we needed her the whole day and night, and I am so grateful for having her there for us on our special day.

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    Kim and the entire EIW team made the wedding of a lifetime a reality for us!! Do yourself the favor of hiring Kim to plan your wedding; it'll be the best decision you make. Planning a wedding, especially a destination wedding, is no small feat, and we really couldn't have done it without EIW. I can't speak highly enough about Kim's knowledge & expertise, and her reputation speaks for itself.
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    Nicole L. Sent on 05/09/2022
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    Absolutely Amazing

    Kim was seriously INCREDIBLE. Through every step of our 20 months of planning journey Kim was on top of helping us secure the best vendors & make sure our fairytale wedding vision became a reality! I know we weren’t always the easiest people with making decisions - but Kim was there every step of the way. Absolutely amazing and without her there would have been no way we could have had our day be so special. We didn’t feel ANY stress leading up to our special day because of her & for that we are forever grateful.
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    Hanidee C. Sent on 09/14/2020
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    Best wedding coordinator in the Island!

    I need everyone to stop what they are doing and book Exclusively Island Wedding ASAP! This is a service I never knew I needed. After postponing our wedding because of the pandemic and planning for over a year, everything was starting to mesh together and I was losing it. Then i got pregnant by the time and we didn't expect baby was coming out too soon at 30 weeks, so I must say that a lot of things going on and was totally lost the interest of planning for our big day.
    Well, the good thing I have Kim since day one. She was friendly and approachable. Reading all the coordinators bios made me feel like I would be in good hands with anyone. "STRESS FREE & A LIFE SAVER" she did everything, from budgeting, recommendations for a vendors and all the stuffs, without Kim on the Island I don't know what to do without her packaged deal service. The day of the wedding Kim orchestrated everything flawlessly. She put out all my decorations the way I wanted them and not only that she can also recommended on her own vision just to help and guide you all the details you would want. Kim did 100+ things to help make our day special that it would be too long to list. And oh the timelime as well was perfect! She truly listened to everything my Husband and I had to say. She was truly a perfect fit for us. I have no clue what to do now without her now that the wedding is over.
    If you have the budget for a wedding coordinator or (can sacrifice something else for one), KIM is the best!. Both of our families absolutely loved working with her and her team, and I credit our wedding day being as smooth and stress-free as it was to all of her hard work.
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    Aljane B. Sent on 09/11/2020
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    Tremendous Wedding Planner!

    Kim at Exclusive Island Weddings is definitely a JOY to work with! She's really experienced with her work and is very creative and talented! Before COVID, She really had everything set in line for us. I don't think I have had to stress, ONCE during the planning. To be honest, I feel bad because I felt as if I wasn't doing anything! That's how great she is at her job. She really took over the whole wedding process and had us just focus on working and saving up money for the wedding! With COVID in the way, everything is on pause but I know for sure I can count on Kim to still make our dreams come true when this is all over.
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    Quincy L. Sent on 03/13/2022
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    Fricken Amazing

    Words truly cannot express our appreciation for Kim and her amazing team. Our wedding was PERFECT and it's all because of them. Kim is truly a fricken design genius! We came to Kim with our specific/millions of ideas LOL and she added her professional magic to make it a reality! Kim always had everything 100% under control and really made the process of wedding planning stress free! Kim respected, listened, stood up, and valued us as clients and we are forever grateful for that!! If you think you don’t need a wedding planner, you better FRICKEN THINK AGAIN!! We definitely recommend Kim a million times! We will truly miss working with you Kim! Mahalo nui again Kim for making our wedding day the most beautiful day that we’ll always remember and cherish!
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    Crystal-Lynn P. Sent on 06/07/2022
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    Best decision ever!

    Kim is not only an amazing person and a talented professional, she is the BEST wedding planner! She made the whole process of planning our wedding fun and so easy! From every vendor to every small detail, despite the many, many changes due to Covid19, she went above and beyond our expectations. Kim and her team literally made our dreams come true & we will never get over of how perfect our wedding day was! Kim is truly a gifted wedding planner who deeply loves and enjoys what she does! We are forever grateful for you!
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    Exceptional Wedding Planner in Maui

    Do yourself a favour, book Kim and her team to plan your wedding you will not regret it! Our experience with Kim began in late 2019 and right from the very beginning we knew we made the right choice. Kim is extremely knowledgeable, organized, welcoming and helpful. Like most, our wedding dreams were shattered when Covid hit and so started our first pivot. Kim was calm, positive and helpful with organizing everything, getting refunds, and assisting us in what was a devastating time. We stayed in contact and she kept us up to date on the status of Covid in Maui, as we were living in northern British Columbia. Eventually, we decided to try again. Kim is so organized and efficient in her monthly meetings, she listened and understood our vision and provided amazing suggestions for vendors that really represented Maui’s finest. Kim built our confidence with her so much that a few times when we did not really know what we wanted, or how we wanted it, we told her to decide as we trusted her decisions.
    As our big day approached, Omnicron reared its ugly head and we were again faced with difficult decisions. Kim stuck with us, contacted all our vendors on our behalf, and worked so hard to ensure we had as much time as possible to make the decision on going ahead or not. She took so much stress off our plate that we were able to work through everything and make a clear, informed decision. In the end, we decided to go ahead despite the added stress and it was the best decision we made! Kim worked tirelessly to get all the final details completed in such a short time as we had delayed for so long due to world events. Our day was absolutely magical, better then we could have ever imagined! Kim and her team made us feel so incredibly special and gave us the perfect wedding. There aren’t enough words to express how amazing Kim is and if anyone if thinking about a wedding in Maui, Kim at Exclusive Island Weddings should be your first call.
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    Edith M. Sent on 01/20/2022
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    Pure Perfection!

    Kim Yonamine, owner of Exclusive Island Weddings, is the ultimate consummate professional. I was ecstatic when I learned Kim was available on the day we were to marry. Our event was a destination wedding. We would see our venue for the first time at our rehearsal, the day before the Big Day! I was impressed with Kim’s vast knowledge, while planning for nearly a year. Kim’s attention to detail is impeccable. Her recommendation of vendors was advantageous for us. Kim had a vision of what we wanted, as we spoke in great length about it at every meeting. I appreciated Kim’s patience and her supportive words while planning a wedding during Covid. On our wedding day, Kim and her team were hard at work, coordinating with the multiple vendors as they arrived. I witnessed this while sitting inside the beautiful Olowalu Plantation home, (while getting my glam-on!). I was gazing past the big doors to a stunning garden with the ocean in the background. Bliss! It was 100% accurate when Kim told me at our first meeting, that on our wedding day, all we had to do was sit back, dance, eat, and enjoy ourselves. It meant a lot to us to see how wonderful the vendors present made our wedding look effortless. Every detail was above and beyond our expectations. I felt so calm and happy and it’s all because of Kim and her phenomenal team. I am in complete awe that our vision was put into place, after many hours of hard work. Our wedding continues to be the hot topic of conversation amongst our family and friends, as they shared it was the most beautiful wedding they’ve ever attended. Kim is the reason our wedding was pure perfection.
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    Alena C. Sent on 12/22/2021
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    A Fairytale Wedding

    Kim literally turned our dream wedding into reality!
    The moment my husband and I decided to get a wedding planner, I already knew who I wanted….and that is Kim of Exclusive Island Weddings. When I contacted Kim, she was already fully booked for the year, but in gods grace, she had an opening. I told her the date, but it was taken, I wanted her so bad that I was willing to change the wedding date just to have her plan our special day. A couple of days later Kim called me and said that she is available for the date. I was the happiest and to this day, I am so glad we had Kim. She made our planning so easy. We had some last minute issues with COVID and she went above and beyond to make sure our wedding happened. My favorite part about working with Kim is that she knows what she’s doing and she gives her honest opinions and ideas. It’s so easy to work with her, she’s very professional, and she cares. You tell her what you want and she makes it happen. From choosing a location, to each vendor she recommends. Everything is just perfect! We received so much great feedbacks from our guest.
    Thank you so much Kim for your amazing work!
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    John&Tima P. Sent on 11/28/2021
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    Number #1 Planner ever!!! 💜💜💜

    Prior to working with Kim @ Exclusive Island Weddings, I had at least 20 different Pinterest boards. We were confused🤔! Then, Kim came along and saved us from that misery! We are so grateful to Kim for taking care of us throughout the pandemic on top of the wedding planning. COVID made us postpone our wedding date 🗓 from November 2020 to this year and made it even difficult with all the mandates. Kim worked her MAGIC 🪄 with the vendors to shift the date and venues and made sure that we won’t have to worry at all. We are thankful that we had Kim on our side throughout the process as she thought of every little detail.

    Kim and the Exclusive Island Weddings team brought our dream into reality 😍🥰 and much more. The decorations were perfect, the whole night was perfect and beyond what we expected. We wouldn’t have done this on our own! THANK YOU SO MUCH! We will be forever grateful to Kim and the whole Exclusive Island Weddings Team! 💜💜💜
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    Di O. Sent on 09/25/2021
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    Couldn't have done it without Kim

    My fiance and I were engaged in 2017 and we thought we could plan our wedding on our own. It did not go well. Then a friend recommend Kim Yonamine and it was the BEST DECISION EVER! She was able to plan around our budget and give wonderful realistic suggestions to work around the type of style I wanted for my wedding. She was always easy to contact if anything came up and keep us on track with a well organized budget/timeline sheet. Everything was set to go for our original date in October 2020, then the pandemic hit. We were so stressed out that everything had to change but Kim was so on top all the changing rules and regulations on Maui we were able to change our date to 2021 and hold our wedding (although smaller than originally planned) safely with no incidents. Kim was a godsend throughout it all and worth every penny and then some we spent hiring her. We had a beautiful wedding experience that my family/friends still were talking about weeks after. Thank you again Kim for giving us the memory of a lifetime!
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    Mike C. Sent on 09/29/2021
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    It finally happened!

    We were so lucky to have Kim at Exclusive Island Weddings plan our wedding! Kim worked with us for almost 3 years because of the pandemic. We were originally scheduled to have our wedding in July 2020, but we had to postpone. We work on the East Coast, so changing the date would have been a monumental task for us had we been alone. Kim helped us move everything to the new date without any problems! Our new wedding date was in August 2021 and Kim was able to help us navigate all of the Covid-19 restrictions to keep everyone safe and having fun. While we had originally planned to be indoors before the pandemic, Kim helped us move to an outdoor location. This move meant we needed to work with many new vendors with a much shorter window to plan than we anticipated. The design of everything from the tent, the flowers, and the ambiance was amazing because of Kim and all of the great vendors! We are so grateful that Kim could help us plan our wonderful day!
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    Alan T. Sent on 07/18/2021
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    Best Money We Spent - so grateful!

    Aloha! This is the follow up to our review on 10/1/2020. We originally hired Kim after seeing her on IG. Our wedding was originally planned for June 2020. Kim was wonderful in helping us move the date with the venues and vendors to June 2021. Being that we planned this entire wedding sight unseen, we put all our trust in Kim. We had a curve ball a week out as US would not all the grooms parents from the UK to fly to US. Thank goodness Kim had recommended CK Cinema in the beginning. She said if we want to do a live stream along with a videographer, he’d be the guy. In the end we did need his services to live stream as well. She did us right and so we’re all her recommendations of vendors. We couldn’t have been more pleased with our special day! Our guests were in awe of the venue and every single detail Kim helped us plan. We can’t thank Kim and her staff enough! Also, special thanks to Olowalu Plantation House, Food for the Soul, Rolland & Jessica photography, Maui Altered, A-list Entertainment, CK Cinema, Jo-Ann, just to mention a few vendors! Mahalo!
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    Kelly G. Sent on 10/01/2020
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    Kim is organized, honest, creative, and detailed.

    In fall of 2019, we stumbled upon Kim via my maid of honor. She randomly saw her fun posts on Instagram. After reviewing her Instagram posts and setting up an initial call, we knew she was our person. Maui being a destination wedding for us, we needed someone organized, honest, creative, and detailed. All through our planning, Kim displayed these traits and then some. Little did we know that 3 months out from our wedding, we also needed someone to go into reactive pandemic mode. When we called to discuss what was happening in the world and the steps to move the wedding to next year, she set my mind at ease. Being in the hospitality industry, I knew what she was dealing with on her end and she took it in stride. She made all the calls and helped organize/arrange all the changes with our vendors. As we continue our planning for next year, I’m even more confident than before we selected the best planner for our special day. Thank you Kim!
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    Monica R. Sent on 09/09/2021
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    Kim is organized and delivers!

    Kim and I started planning my wedding almost a year in advance of the June 2021 event. Needless to say, the pandemic weighed heavily on my mind, and she kept me updated during our monthly calls of what was happening on the island and how it might possibly affect the wedding. What lead me to choose Kim as my wedding planner was her experience as a project manager, as well as her team's ability to provide the flower arranging services at a major cost savings to us. I was looking for someone to be detailed and organized and keep me on budget, and Kim did just that. She knows all of the little things that you would never think of on your own, and she also knows so many vendors that she easily offered suggestions for any of the ideas I had. My husband and I wanted a wedding a few steps off of traditional, and Kim was able to make that happen for us...she handled hiring the Polynesian dancers, sourcing custom made macarons and ice pops, and even working with our officiant to do something a little unusual we wanted. Another thing I liked about Kim was that she never pressured us to use any specific vendors. I'm sure there are some she has stronger relationships with than others, but we always felt free to choose whoever we felt was best for our event. The best part about Kim is that she's chill. She has a very laid-back, easy vibe that is exactly what you want in a wedding planner without lacking on the ability to get things done.

    I still get comments from guests about how much they enjoyed our wedding. They can't believe that there were so many special touches incorporated and that I could've planned it from California. I always tell them the key was my amazing wedding planner!
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