10 Tips For Choosing The Best Hawaiian Wedding Planner

10 Tips For Choosing The Best Hawaiian Wedding Planner. This article will offer you just what you need to know to make the best selection for your Hawaiian wedding planning company.

* 1. Find a wedding planner who has a decent website.

A professional well thought out website will give you a picture as to just how busy and professional the wedding company really is.

A good website should offer you plenty information so that you are able to make an intelligent decision about a wedding company before you even call.

* 2. Choose a "wedding planner" who gives you their names, business address and phone numbers plainly on their website.

In every wedding market, there are always a number of companies who try to hide who they are. Often, they have worked at making their identity hard to find because they don't want to talk to their clients unless absolutely necessary. They will cloak their identity, offering no personal information. This is an indication that you are dealing with a fly-by-night company or one who is only a middle-man, hiring another "planner" to coordinate their actual weddings.

* 3. Pay attention to the way a wedding planner handles you on the telephone.

You will want to do business with a company who treats you with respect. If someone is abrupt, do you really want them coordinating your "wedding"? How you are valued on the phone is an accurate idea of how you will be valued on the day of your wedding. If a wedding planner doesn't have the time to get back to you before you have even booked, how easy will they be to communicate with after they have your money and you're "stuck" with them?

* 4. Choose a "Wedding Planner" who has experience.

Over the years many young women have told us that they see organizing weddings as a dream job. Here on Maui, there are many who have thrown up a quick website and begun to tell their friends that they are now a Maui wedding coordinator. Do you want to be someone's first (or second) wedding? Experience is so paramount, especially here on Maui where there is so much to learn, including wedding locations, legal questions, types of flowers, the difference in wedding vendors, which ministers and photographers are the best, etc., etc.

* 5. Ensure your "wedding planner" will definitely be at your wedding.

There are cut-rate wedding companies who only make telephone calls for you. They schedule a minister, a photographer and maybe a videographer to do your wedding, but they don't send a coordinator to show and to run everything, because that would mean they would have to raise their prices and lose their selling point.

If no on-site wedding planner will be at your ceremony, who will make certain that any of the key players knows what they're doing? And if for some reason, one vendor (like the minister) is late or heaven forbid, does not show up at all because of some mix up, who will pull all the pieces together and get a backup? Unless your wedding includes just a minister, and no one else, you want to be confident that a wedding coordinator will be in attendance when your ceremony is performed.

* 6. Pick a wedding coordinator with the spirit of Aloha.

"Aloha" means love in Hawaiian. Those of us who reside in Hawaii enjoy the attitude that is here and which comes, first and foremost from the native Hawaiians. We want to talk to you like you're family (or ohana, as we say here). It is crucial to look for a "wedding planner" who truly treats you like you're part of the family.

* 7. Choose a "wedding planner" who is a member of the Better Business Bureau.

This seventh point is pretty much our most important piece of advice. In any industry there are always those who do not handle their clients well. Even companies who have been in business for years. In Hawaii there are a handful of wedding planners who have a long list of unhappy or semi-happy couples. The advised way to avoid such coordinators is to investigate them with the Hawaii Chapter of the Better Business Bureau. You can be sure that a planner with a number of black marks will rise to the attention of the BBB. A member company offers you one more guarantee that you will go home happily "Maui'd."

By: John souter