Tropical Maui Weddings Maui, HI

In March of 2010, I got engaged with my boyfriend of seven years, within 6 months we had to plan and execute a large Indian reception, an Indian ceremony in NY and a 150 person wedding and reception in Maui. To be honest, I was not looking forward to the stress of planning three different occasions in various different states, so obviously, we knew we needed help. So, I enlisted the support of Lori Lawrence, from Tropical Maui Weddings for our Hawaii wedding. Jackie Tanaka was assigned to be my Wedding Coordinator and for the next six months Jackie and I worked together remotely between NY and Maui. The goal was to plan a simple Hawaiian style wedding with a NYC flare. We did everything from NYC through Jackie- music, band, hula troupe, venue, cakes, floral, decor etc.. I have to say that planning a wedding like this was no easy task, and Jackie did all the hard work. I estimate that over the six months, at least 1 thousand emails and countless calls were made to each other. Jackie did the pricing, made the calls, got the vendors, promptly emailed me with updates, recommended ideas that fit my style and was completely willing to allow me to bring in my own vendors. She even had the foresight to schedule a person to steam my dress when we brought it from NY- which was something that had not even occurred to me!

Since I had dealt with two different wedding planners, one in NY and one in Maui, I can now say that I have a good sense of what a good planner can do, and Jackie was the best! She gently guided me in areas I was unfamiliar with and yet made sure that my vision of my wedding came through perfectly. When the day came and I walked into my wedding, my eyes teared up because it was such a shock that 6 months of planning with Jackie gave me exactly what I wanted! (that never happens to me!!!) My husband and I cannot say enough about Jackie Tanaka, she has an exceptional personality, she is very organized, polite and patient. Most importantly, she was perceptive enough to be able to pin my tastes down very quickly, to the point that towards the end, I just let her make some of the decisions because I knew she would choose the right one for me.

Tropical Maui Weddings is a great company, one of the advantages we found with working with them, was that we also didn't have to get bogged down in contracts, separate billing and deposits because it is routed through Tropical Maui Weddings. So we only had to pay one bill at the end. Tropical Maui Weddings has a great future and Jackie Tanaka has our complete respect and admiration for all her hard work and dedication- Mitch and I sincerely thank her for making our wedding day wonderful. THANK YOU!!!

Chandra & Mitch