Live Maui Webcasts Featured on Local TV

A few months ago, OC16′s Hawaii Wedding Professionals show came to Maui and interviewed Live Maui Webcasts on their Maui Wedding service. Kalehua Featheran (based out of Oahu) and I chatted a bit about life on Maui, the service and for whom it’s best suited.

The show will air the following dates and times:

Premier – Friday 2/4/2011 at 6:30pm
Repeats - Saturday 2/5/2011 at 12:30am and 1:30pm
Monday 2/6/2011 at 5pm
Tuesday 2/7/2011 at 6am and 2pm
Friday 2/11/2011 at 9am

From the Hawaii Wedding Professional Press Release:

This is the final show of the series featuring Maui wedding professionals.  Host Kahu Kalehua Featheran and the crew traveled to the southern end of Maui, to a beautiful place called Honua Kai Lani in Makena.

Kalehua Featheran and I talking story in Makena

First guest, Stephan Boeker of Live Maui Webcasts came over to Maui from New York City about 11 years ago.  Seeking a change, he move to Paradise, and can’t imagine living anywhere else.  Stephan started by doing wedding photography and then began dabbling in video because he kept hearing the bride or groom saying, “how I wish mom and dad could be here”.  He looked for a way to fill this need and as the tools to do this started becoming available, he got into the business of live streaming weddings.

Kahu Kalehua commented that lots of local people relocate to places all around the world and so this business is not only for destination couples, but for local couples, too.   Stephan recently did a wedding on the north shore of Maui for a bride from California and a groom from Samoa.  He said people living anywhere where there is reasonable connection and reasonable band width can see the wedding ceremony live.

Stephan meets with the couples and asks them if they want it live streamed or on demand?  There is a time difference so in some places, being a live broadcast is not as important; for others it is.  Also, a chat room can be set up so those viewing the webcast can also be talking to one another.  For couples who only wish to have certain people viewing the webcast, passwords can be provided to keep it private.  In Stephan’s best package, he provides the live webcast, it streams worldwide live or on demand, it can be viewed at a later date from the archives, the couple gets a fully edited DVD which includes interview of the couple and guests.  The differentiating factor between Live Maui Webcasts and others is that Stephan likes asking deep probing questions of the bride and groom so when they watch the DVD years from now, they can see and hear what they were thinking.

We will post the segment once we get it!