Pre-Wedding Visit to Hawaii

As a destination bride and a local event planner, it has been extremely difficult and stressful for me not to see my wedding location before the actual wedding date. So, recently my fiancé and I decided (at the encouragement of a friend) to visit Hawaii to finalize the details of our wedding. Though it cost us a bit extra money, in the whole scheme of things it was be a small price to pay for the most important day of our lives.

Beach at The Fairmont Orchid

What was to be an extremely short trip to Hawaii to plan our wedding in three days, turned out to be the most successful and enjoyable time and…a tiny, much needed vacation. While visiting we were able to plan every detail of our entire wedding, pick out potential rehearsal dinner locations, welcome cocktail hour locations and obtain hotel, activity and flight information for all of our guests.

We were also able to enjoy what most local brides take advantage of. Without the trip to our destination, we wouldn’t have been able to enjoy the menu tasting, cake tasting a detailed walk thru, meet our officiate, photographer, florist, DJ, and pick out event locations. Destination brides often don’t get to experience these small and otherwise tedious details of planning their wedding, but having that opportunity was an even more enjoyable experience.

Images from our floral consultation, menu tasting and potential rehearsal dinner location.

One piece of advice for any destination bride…spend the extra money (whatever it costs) to visit your wedding location prior to the wedding to plan the little details. It makes for an enjoyable experience for you and your fiancé and a somewhat of a pre-wedding honeymoon.

We are now more excited than ever to be having our guests join us for our most special day in Hawaii, knowing we are pleased with all the details and proud to share with our friends and family.

AND...after sharing pictures from the trip with our family and friends, we are not the only ones excited about the wedding. The pictures helped to put a place in mind and our guests are even more excited than ever to be able to join us and spend the extra money to travel to the destination to share in our special day!

A few more pictures from our destination wedding location.