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WOW Beach House

There are many beautiful places you can have your wedding on Maui. This post happens to highlight the WOW Beach House down in Makena, but let’s first recap the other options for you Maui wedding location options.

1. There is the proverbial Maui beach wedding if you’re looking for a cost-effective, beautiful, yet only semi-private location for you ceremony.
2. Then there are the resorts like the Four Seasons Resort Maui, the Grand Wailea, the Hyatt, etc… that offer their own full service wedding coordinators and stunning locations that are private. After the ceremony, you can walk to your reception at either your own private banquet room/ outdoor location or just have it at one of the restaurants.
3. Independent restaurants like Gannon’s or Merriman’s also offer great locations for your ceremony and adjacent reception.
4. Then there are Maui estates and locations that are great for both your ceremony and reception. A perfect example of this category is the White Orchid Wedding Beach House in Makena (it’s right after Big Beach). To get a sense of how amazing WOW Beach House is for weddings, we put together a brief client testimonial video that shows you…

The WOW Beach House Testimonial Video

To really get a sense of what might be the best choice for you, discuss with your sweetheart and first get a sense of what your style is. The 4th option (private estates) are by far the most private option and you can rest assured that no outsiders will be around at your WOW Beach House Wedding. Resorts and restaurants, while they will reserve an area on property for you, still will have other resort guests walking in nearby common areas and walkways. Beaches and county areas are the most public, since there is no way of stopping anyone from coming close to your ceremony area.

To see more about what White Orchid Weddings and their WOW Beach House have to offer, check out there website: http://www.whiteorchidwedding.com

The Knot Forum Review

Just yesterday I received a phone call from a bride wanting to work with us. Alicia form California told me that she was looking for some way she could share her December 20th ceremony with her friends and family who would invariably be unable to attend her wedding.

She thought feverishly on how some kind of a webcast could be done. A mobile phone? One of those “shady free suggested donation” services?

That’s when she scoured the wedding websites and found The Knot Forum Review that helped her make a decision:

Live Maui Webcasts – Because we didn’t invite any family to join us (seriously, no regrets), we streamed the ceremony live. Stephan was the one who suggested we move the ceremony from Makena Cove to Po’olenalena because the reception was better and we’d have more space. I’m so glad he did – it was perfect. We had about 100 people watch it live, and it went off without a hitch. The video was posted online a few hours later, so we were able to watch it in our hotel room that night. The package we chose included a professionally-edited DVD, and that arrived in the mail yesterday (two weeks after the ceremony). A DVD wasn’t all that important to me, but I am SO impressed with how it turned out. It’s really professionally done and I’m so glad we have it. This was absolutely worth doing.

– Sara from Indiana (http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_hawaii_reviews-pro-pics?MsdVisit=1)

That forum review also went on to praise:

• Anna Kim of AnnaKimPhotography.com
• Minister Adam Gomes and musician Paul Peterson
• Maui Sunset Catering
• Lori Davis (Hair and Make-up)
• and Precious Maui Weddings

Photo Courtesy of AnnaKimPhototraphy.com

The Knot Forums Praise

I was just poking around the Knot Forums when I stumbled upon these posts from some Knoties.

What makes finding something so fun is that this wedding happened in 2009. It’s like a little Thursday morning gift on my doorstep: validation that we’ve been on the right track for years.

Thank you to all our awesome couples and viewing audience who make our lives richer!

Maui Wedding DVD ‘s Shipping

A day of Maui wedding DVD assembly culminated into a large number of DVD cases stacked up ready for shipping to the mainland. In a spontaneous moment of motivation, I picked up my trusty DSLR and took some photos.

Here they are! Wedding DVD heaven…

Winner of the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Award 2012

Maui, Hawaii – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce that Maui wedding video company Live Maui Webcasts and DVD has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Videography, not just from Hawaii, but from a nationwide pool of over 200,000 vendors.?

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization, Live Maui Webcasts and DVD was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients for Maui wedding videos.

As a Maui wedding company, Live Maui Webcasts and DVD is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year. ??

“Live Maui Webcasts and DVD is thrilled to be honored by WeddingWire as one of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Stephan Boeker, Executive Producer, Live Maui Webcasts and DVD. "It’s a wonderful validation of our work when brides recognize us out of thousands of outstanding wedding professionals for what weddingwire calls ‘supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry.’ It is with great pleasure that we accept this award that according to weddingwire is a testament to continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples."??

We are happy to announce that Live Maui Webcasts and DVD is one of the very best Videographers and Webcasters – not just for Maui wedding videos, but nationwide — within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012. ?

For more information, please visit their Maui weddings website http://www.livemauiwebcasts.com. ??

To learn more about the Bride’s Choice Awards™, please visit www.WeddingWire.com. ??

About WeddingWire, Inc.?WeddingWire™, the nation’s leading marketplace serving the $70 billion wedding industry, is the only online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding professionals. For engaged couples, WeddingWire offers the ability to search, compare and book over 200,000 reviewed wedding vendors, from wedding venues to wedding photographers. WeddingWire also offers a comprehensive suite of online planning tools for weddings, including wedding websites and wedding checklists, all at no charge.

About Live Maui Webcasts and DVD LLC: Live Maui Webcasts and DVD has been providing wedding couples and the ones they love not able to attend the Maui wedding with highest quality live and recorded webcasts, as well as skillfully made Maui wedding videos since 2005.

We Love Our Clients

I was thinking long and hard about whether I should even bother putting a wonderfully personal communique like this one up on a public blog. Letters like this are what makes life so amazing: people helping people, and confiding things in one another. Usually I leave it at that and just cherish it.

But I also wanted to convey to others reading this blog just how we feel about our clients. It tells an important story of who we are and how we are with other people. Wedding couples, their home audience, and the coordinators with whom we work are not a means to an end. They are a huge part in why we even go out there and do what we do: we are in a unique position to ADD VALUE TO PEOPLE’S LIVES and it’s that realization that prompted us to write our Maui wedding mission statement.

A letter like the following is representative of who we are and how much we enjoy spending our time with our couples, viewing audience and island professionals. So, mahalo for enhancing our lives!

What life is all about: people helping people and sharing with one another.

Stephan writes for Live Maui Webcasts blog to pass along pertinent information on all things weddings, Maui and Hawaii. Read more about him here.