Reuters Blogs “Maui Wedding Easy Financially”

I just stumbled across this blog article on Reuters. It examines who ends up flipping the bill for weddings (a Maui Wedding or otherwise) in these mid/ post recession days: the bride’s parents? The grooms? The couple themselves?

In the case of the Royal Wedding, the British tax payer is on the hook, but if you’re not royalty, then the trend is that couples themselves are taking more and more responsibility for the cost of their wedding.

That’s when I stumbled across this paragraph that talks about Maui weddings:

The trend has provided some financial respite for parents like 67-year-old Linda Emmons and her husband Lewis, whose two sons and their future wives paid most of their own wedding expenses. When her younger son and his fiancée got married earlier this year, their choice of a destination wedding in Maui saved the couple a lot of money by limiting the number of guests to those who could fly out. “At first I was a little concerned about a destination wedding,” she says. “But it turned out beautifully, and it was very easy on us financially.”

At first glance it may sound counterintuitive: how can a Maui wedding in the middle of the Pacific be cheaper than closer to home?

Easy: with a lower headcount of a Maui wedding (because of the higher cost of travel), the reception costs go way down.

But then the drawback is of course that people you love and care for won’t be able to attend your Maui wedding and the festivities. Bummer!

I have to admit, that we have the best job in the world. We face happiness and gratitude from all sides:

• brides and grooms are so thankful that ailing grandparents can tune in, college friends and work colleagues could tune in and feel a part of it all;
• the audience sends us emails, comments, and chatroom comments of gratitude for having connected them;
• wedding coordinators are happy that we provide a professional service that’s reliable and exhibits genuine care for their clients;
• our employees are happy that they get to be out in the field, in the fresh air, out on the beach working and having it contribute to an honest living and positive impact on our world.

I’ve worked all over the world and consulted for many different clients, and nothing compares to providing the service of a live webcast and DVD production to people who are in love and are truly grateful. Add to that our gratitude to them for entrusting us with their wedding video production and you’ve got a beautiful symbiosis.

Yes indeed, a Maui wedding can be a lot easier on your pocketbook and does not sentence you to leave the ones you love behind.

You CAN have your cake and eat it too!

READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE