About this vendor
Based in the beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii, Hawaii-Day Wedding & Events helps couples plan their one of a kind weddings. This team of dedicated planners has been organizing special days on the island since 2008. Whether it’s a local lawn ceremony or a dream destination wedding, these professionals can assist you in producing the celebration of your dreams.
The team that makes up Hawaii-Day Wedding & Events has planned and coordinated hundreds of festivities throughout Honolulu and mainland United States. They love to work closely with all of their clients in order to bring their visions to life. By combining their own expertise with the client’s ideas, this team can create loving atmospheres in which unforgettable memories thrive.
Hawaii-Day Wedding & Events offers full, partial, and day-of coordination packages. Their fully comprehensive collection is ideal for those who feel daunted at the prospect of organizing their entire celebrations. With this option, your planner can help source your dream venue as well as trusted vendors on the island. Precise timelines can also be created to make sure that every fine detail is addressed and taken care of. What’s more, this team’s professional event stylists can help convert your chosen event space into the setting you’ve always envisioned. For those who aim to celebrate on The Islands of Aloha, these planners can help bring those visions into reality.
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Business Attributes
- Asian-owned Business
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Packages
- Destination Wedding Planning
Planning
- A la Carte Wedding Planning
- Budgeting
- Day-Of Coordination
- Destination Wedding Planning
- Full Service Wedding Planning
- Honeymoon Planning
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Engagement Party
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Engagement Party
- Rehearsal Dinner
Awards and Affiliations
2021 'Best of Weddings'
Best of Weddings
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4.9
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From the planning process to the wedding week itself, CJ and his team were thoughtful, responsive, and incredibly experienced. A destination wedding naturally comes with so many mo...
ving pieces, but CJ and the team helped us navigate everything with patience, professionalism, and care. They understood our vision, respected the details that mattered to us, and made us feel supported throughout the entire process.
On the wedding day, everything came together beautifully. The team was calm, organized, and present, which allowed us to truly enjoy the day with our family and friends.
Like any destination wedding, there were many moving pieces and a few unexpected moments (mostly caused by hotel and other vendors), but what mattered most to us was that CJ and the team showed up with care, flexibility, and dedication.
We know weddings require so much effort that guests may never see, and we genuinely felt how much care the team put into making our celebration special.
We would absolutely recommend CJ and his team to couples looking for a planner who is experienced, reliable, detail-oriented, and truly cares.
Follow up: Still didn't receive edited photos after 3 months although CJ promised to deliver within a week.
Pros
1. Flexible vendor policy: They were fine with us hiring vendors ...
we found ourselves.
2. Chinese-speaking support: This was helpful for family members who don't speak English.
3. The photo style is natural.
4. Makeup recommendation: The makeup artist they recommended (Abbie) was good, and she was attentive with touch-ups.
Major Cons
1. Big attitude shift after we signed. Before we signed the contract, communication was quick and friendly. After signing, there was a period when they became extremely difficult to reach. I understand wedding season is busy, but going 2 weeks with no response is not acceptable. It made us feel like our wedding obviously wasn’t important to them.
2. Rude, harsh tone on the wedding day. Right before the ceremony started, the coordinator (CJ) sharply asked us: “You didn’t know/practice the handoff?” That kind of accusatory comment is the last thing a couple needs moments before walking down the aisle. It’s the coordinator’s job to guide the process, not blame the family.
3. Dismissive of the bride’s requests. I wanted the family members to walk down the aisle, and I had already discussed it with the band. CJ responded with an unpleasant, challenging tone: “They’re walking too?” To avoid conflict and protect my mood, I gave in and said only the groom would walk. That also meant we lost the moment we planned with Canon, a piece I really love.
4. Poor vendor coordination. Even something as basic as the cake delivery became something I had to worry about myself. If there was an issue, it should have been communicated ahead of time, not brought up last-minute on the wedding day.
5. Weak handling of emerging situations. We were delayed due to circumstances outside our control. Even with that, we still should have had a short pre-ceremony photo window to breathe, listen to the music, take photos, and settle our nerves. Instead, because the coordinator didn’t clarify details with the band in advance, they immediately rushed everything when we arrived. Many songs I carefully chose were never heard. The priority felt like “finish the schedule,” not “help the couple enjoy their wedding.”
6. Package items not delivered. There should be musicians playing/singing a few songs during post-ceremony photo time to keep the atmosphere lively. That never happened.
7. Edited photos delivered very late, and then no response. After the wedding, I had to ask twice just to receive the retouched photos, and they looked rushed and rough. We then requested re-edits. At first there were replies (though I still had to keep following up). But after the last round of feedback, more than two months passed and I still never received the updated photos. I sent multiple follow-up emails and got no response.
Minor Cons
1. Inconsistent pricing: Add-on service pricing kept changing, which felt unprofessional.
2. Limited vendor recommendations: I found most vendors myself. The florist they recommended was 60%+ more expensive than the one I found.
Overall
Coordination: 50/100, Photography: 80/100, Photo editing/delivery: 50/100
The biggest issue is that the coordinator and photographer they provided were the same person, and unfortunately neither role was handled well. It would be much better to hire different specialists rather than one person trying to cover multiple vendor roles.
CJ, Ish, and team are really the best! We are 100% that working with Hawaii-Day for our Coordination, Photography, Videography, and Emcee was the best decision we could have made. ...
Our wedding day was a huge success with very little stressors. Unedited photographs are already so amazing, I could not be happier.
CJ and Ish are great communicators, keeping you up to date on items and being the in-between for you and your vendors. They kept our extremely tight timeline on point.
Hawaii-Day team is so friendly and helpful, we received comments from our friends and family about how they were all so nice and easy to work with, we really appreciated their fun and friendly personalities.
We may not have found Hawaii-Day through The Knot, but would highly recommend them to any other bride-to-be on here looking for a coordinator, photographer, videographer, and/or emcee. I highly recommend getting someone who can do it all, an "all-in-one" really makes the payment and process so much easier.
We can’t thank CJ and the Hawaii Day Wedding team enough for making our special day absolutely perfect. From the very beginning, CJ was incredibly supportive, experienced,responsiv...
e, and professional. Even with last-minute changes and unexpected challenges—especially with me being sick for the past few months—CJ handled everything with such grace and care.
He truly went above and beyond to make the entire process smooth and stress-free for us. On the day of the wedding, everything was beautifully organized and seamless. Our guests had a wonderful time and we received so many compliments on how fun, well-planned, and heartfelt the entire day was.
We’re so grateful for CJ and his amazing team. If you’re planning a wedding in Hawaii, look no further—they are the absolute best!
CJ, Ish, and the rest of the team were extremely helpful with the planning process and wedding day festivities. They helped with getting answers to all of our questions and drillin...
g down on everything we needed to do before the wedding. The whole team really made our wedding one of the best days of our lives. Everyone told us they enjoyed the evening. We don't plan on having another wedding, but we highly HIGHLY recommend Hawaii-Day to anyone in need of wedding planning assistance.
I & T
They are very professional. Thanks for the unforgettable memory.
Choosing the Hawaii-Day Wedding Planning team was one of the best decisions I made for my wedding. A big shoutout to CJ, Cindi, and the entire team for their professionalism, reli...
ability, and genuine warmth. My wedding exceeded all expectations, and every guest felt the same way. From the charming linen on our sweetheart table to the whimsical cartoon ornaments and the perfectly arranged water and coffee station, every detail was flawless. I've attended many weddings, but I'm proud to say that my own was truly the best. This beautiful memory will stay with me forever. Thank you again, CJ and your wonderful team, for making it all possible.
Going with Hawaii-Day Wedding & Events for wedding planning service is by far the best decision we have ever made! Their professionalism is unmatched and they communicated exceptio...
nally well with us throughout the entire processes. I highly recommend them!
CJ and the team are so professional and well-communicated. They sent us all the photos right away after the wedding. We are really happy that we are sharing this special day with t...
he team.
CJ and his team were a game changer for our Big Island wedding! They were on top of
everything, always had our back, and hooked us up with some awesome vendors.From flowers to food...
to furniture, they gave us plenty of cool options to pick from.Their thoughtful approach and genuine care made our experience stress- free and memorable. Big thanks for making our day so special!
PS: CJ is also a great photographer!
Thanks so much to CJ and his team: Ismael, Chloe, and Summer for all of their great work in helping us plan and coordinate our destination wedding! We really couldn’t have done th...
is without them or have asked for better coordinators.
Because of our busy schedules and procrastination, my wife and I had put off our wedding planning until roughly 3 months before our scheduled wedding date (we had booked the venue + date already from pre-covid). As you can imagine, because of that, a lot of things had to be done within this short time frame. Luckily, CJ and his team was available to help us with the planning and coordinate. I had been originally interested in his team due to his multi-lingual team ( I believe he has team members that speak fluent Chinese, Korean and Japanese).
CJ and Ismael, who were involved in the planning phase, first built an overall timeline of what the day looked like, an initial floor plan based on our venue, followed by a very organized list of vendors that needed to secured, and essential things that needed to get prioritized. They also had many great vendor recommendations based on our budget and our envisioned design. Throughout the planning phase, they were also very flexible and accommodating as we had changed our design ideas multiple times and were quite selective about a few of the vendors. CJ is very honest about certain design ideas and pros/cons for each vendor which was extremely helpful for us in choosing vendors + planning the design.
Fast forward to the wedding day, Ismael, Chloe and Summer were extremely organized and did an amazing job making sure everything went smoothly. Ismael helped us smoothly incorporate some last-minute design ideas for our guest tables, helped coordinate with all of our vendors to make sure everything was there, and made sure the whole event ran on schedule. Chloe was extremely helpful in guiding my wife’s and her family (and communicated with them in Korean) throughout the photoshoots and wedding day. Summer was great in helping to get everything set up, welcoming our family + guests, and helping us with our guestsbook.
At the beginning of 2023, the thought of the whole planning process had been a very stressful thought for us, but with the great help of the Hawaii-day wedding team, our wedding turned out to be unforgettable and a lot more fun and memorable than we had expected. They had also made our lives so much easier throughout the planning process.
TL;DR: Hawaii-day wedding team was great and helped us plan everything from scratch in a very short time. Highly recommend them, especially for those with family members from China/Korea.
The Hawaii-Day team was great! They gave us a very detailed overview of there services, and managed nearly all the vendor work for us. Additionally, they helped tremendously with o...
ur design and layout, making the process far less stressful. They recommended ALL our vendors (food, beauty, entertainment) and it all great. We truly had a dream wedding which would not have been possible without CJ, Sally, Ismael and Summer!
I used Hawaii- Day Weddings for month of wedding day planning and organization. They were extremely helpful with making sure the day of went flawlessly and that the vendors were aw...
are of the timeline of events. Highly recommend CJ for wedding planning. He is very organized and knows a lot of the vendors in the area making wedding planning and organizing easier. Couldn’t of had such abs amazing flawless wedding without their help!
We loved working with CJ on our elopement in Honolulu. He was able to put everything together under 2 weeks of notice due to the changing pandemic rules . And I was very appreciati...
ve that the entire crew were very flexible to accommodate my schedule. CJ was very responsive, and his team provided very professional services. I can't thank him enough to help me plan a stress free wedding, and enjoy my time in Hawaii.
Matt and I had a wedding in Hawaii at Turtle Bay. CJ’s team was a very professional planner, top-notch photographer, and professional editor for the video. They exceeded all our e...
xpectations from beginning to end. Planning was seamless and he ensured that every detail of the event, from several days prior to our wedding event to meet and discuss final details, to the very end of the wedding night were all well coordinated. Having a professional planner was definitely a wise investment, as there are so many details to attend to for a special day that it takes much of the burden off the bride and groom for coordination and planning. Having a great planner like CJ to ensure all details and the event go smoothly, along with great photography and videography services that capture the event so beautifully like they did, I can say I wholeheartedly recommend him to ensure your day is only filled with wonderful memories for a lifetime!
I researched a lot trying to find the best wedding company. Hawaii-Day Wedding & Events Exceeded all my expectations and beyond. Especially, since my wedding was a bigger guest Des...
tination wedding. With guest coming from Korea and the States. So much more easier having one company plan and organizing everything. Thank you for making my wedding planning seamless all the way from Los Angeles, CA.
Hiring CJ, Emma and Hawaii-Day Wedding & Events to be my wedding planning team was the best decision we could have ever made!! I decided to move my wedding date 9 month early due t...
o my pregnancy. I definitely don’t think we could’ve done it without CJ and Emma, especially within less than 2-month timeline.
For the planning phase, CJ and Emma made sure that we were on top of everything for the wedding, from following up timeline to booking the vendors, especially our wedding was destination wedding and planning phase was during my first uncomfortable trimester. They provided us vender and wedding place options with pro and cons and follow up multiple times before the deadline. Due to my body condition, my maid of honor Han was the main one involved in planning. CJ was very patient and thorough with everything and provided clear to-do list for each person to complete meanwhile keep everyone in the loop.
On the day of the wedding, CJ team was on top of the timeline and made each session had enough time to celebrate as well as to take enough photos. Emma also went above and beyond to make sure everything went as smoothly as wedding could go-all the while smiling and easing my stress level. Our family was so enjoyed the day and we stayed over time at the dinner place. Both CJ and Emma stayed over till the end and helped us packing all the decors. We really appreciate their care and kindness.
Another highlight of their services are vender choosing. The biggest concern of destination wedding is worrying vender quality. I have to say Emma has very good taste to choose venders, made our biggest day beautiful and elegant. I absolutely love my makeup artiest abbie, my ceremony place and dinner place. How many times have you been to a wedding and actually enjoyed the food and wine? In fact, most of our guests raved about this food and wines. Believe or not, CJ is not only a great wedding planner but also a professional photographer. I absolutely love our wedding photos and the highlight video. I got a lot of compliment on the photos and a lot of my friends mentioned how touchable the video was. Known I have an angel boy coming up, he even made us a nice electronic photo album as a gift to us with a lot of photo fine touches!!
We can’t say enough thank you to all Hawaii-Day Wedding & Events for the effort you put into my flawless wedding. They are definitely the one who can provide you one-stop shop, all-inclusive and affordable, customized to fit your fancy and your budget.
--Elvie and Su
CJ was exceptional! Although we unfortunately had to postpone our date, he made this process less stressful on my fiancee & I. He was very mindful of our needs & thorough on the de...
tails. Great, great company!
My second year wedding anniversary is coming very soon. Very thanks CJ, Emma, and Abbie for coordinating on my wedding day. This good team made my ideal dream come true.
I especia...
lly remembered two days before my wedding day there was a tremendous rainstorm that ruined my original wedding location. CJ and Emma immediately informed me and help me think up Plan B. They were very efficient to find me a new place and coordinated all vendors the day after. My husband and I were very lucky to rehearse on time, and enjoyed our real wedding day on April 15, 2018.
It's a wonderful and memorable experience in my whole life!❤️
Amazing Team and give us the perfect wedding!
The Hawaii- Day is such a professional and diligent team. My husband and I planed to have a wedding at the winter. So Honolulu became ...
our first choice. However, we lived in the NYC. We cannot really talk with planing team face to face, which made us feel very worried. Durning preparing time ( about half year), we had couple phone calls with Hawaii-Day team. They provided us several wedding locations, budget and progress. They explained the difference between those plans very clearly, it made us easy to make a choice. We headed to Hawaii one weeks ago. That was first time we met with CJ; He is a super nice and professional gentlemen. Within 2 hours. He brought us to the wedding locations, chose the wedding dinner and explained the specific plans. Meanwhile, he companied with us to buy the Honolulu cookies as our wedding lucky treats lol On the wedding day, we just focused on ourselves and enjoy the whole day. Because the markup team, photography team and manage team already prepared everything to you. That is a perfect wedding. All our requirement and expected, HAWAII-DAY team helped us realized. We very appreciate what they bring to us. Meanwhile, we got the baby now, we decide to bring the baby back to Hawaii and get the family photoshoot by Hawaii- Day team again. The good wedding planner is super important for us, because their professional and passion; you can save the time and energy. Your big day will become such memorable! Hawaii-day Wedding & Event it is!
I spent a lot of time on searching for a day-off coordinator when my fiance and I decided to host a destination wedding in Honolulu. After contacting a bunch of vendors and talking...
to plenty of them on the phone, I found CJ and his team is the most under-rated vendor for wedding planning/coordination services.
CJ was very accessible and always keen to offer his help even at the very early stage of my vendor searching process. We scheduled a phone call for discussing services his team can offer but it turned out we received much more information than what we expected, including suggestions on how to negotiate with our hotel venue, what we might miss during wedding planning and how the planning time table should look like - this is indeed much more than a day-off coordinator should offer. We soon made a decision on hiring his team as our day-off coordinator.
During the course of early wedding preperation like vendor searching, hotel venue planning, venue design, and etc. CJ was always very helpful and tried to provide all his honest opinions whenever we needed any advices.
We are just like all other couples during this difficult time when Coronavirus disrupted everyone's wedding planning. CJ was the first and the only one vendor who reached out to us and reminded us to contact all other vendors about the potential changes in our wedding plan. This absolutely shows his sense of responsibility and enthusiastic to offer his help to clients. Although we arrived at the difficult decision to cancel our wedding, I'd still like to give CJ and his team a 5/5 rating!
CJ and his team were my day of coordinators and they were nothing short of amazing. Leading up to the day, they were very thorough and created a whole timeline for my reception and...
made sure they had every little detail down. I didn’t worry about a thing on my special day. Later when I found out there were a few setting up hiccups, I didn’t even notice it the day of because CJ remained diligent and efficient throughout the day without putting any worries in my mind. He was also available through texts whenever I had any concerns. I HIGHLY recommend him and his team. CJ & Emma were amazing!
Where do I start. Such a wonderful and amazing experience working with CJ and Ish. Their team were truly wonderful. Every question or concern I had, they handled. Very helpful and ...
great with communication. I can’t recommend highly enough.
They did an awesome job on our wedding filming! The videographer was very professional and the final video came out really good. Our communication with CJ was easy and smooth, he l...
istened carefully to our requests and tried his best to meet our needs. Thanks to them that we got everything we wanted in our wedding video, which is a precious lifetime memory to us and our entire family.
We happened to meet CJ when my husband and I are looking at the outside of Ko Olina Chapel. We were hesitating if we could look inside and CJ introduced us the whole chapel friendl...
y. After that, we got his contact. We compared with other agents and decided to choose Hawaii-day wedding. It's a smart choice.
We had the wedding ceremony @ Akala Chapel, which is a pure white and beautiful one! And the dinner reception @Helakulani, which is a five-star hotel. They helped us with each detail and planned it so well!!!! My husband and I, my whole family and all the guests said this wedding is so successful and gorgeous. It is not deniable wedding is costly, but they understood our budget and helped us on deciding the decoration.
Thank you so much!!!
We just had a destination wedding in Waikiki. My husband and I was looking for a Hawaiian wedding planner since the beginning of the year 2017. I found Hawaii-day Wedding and CJ fr...
om the internet and contacted him directly. We went to Hawaii to meet CJ and his team member Emma on August 2017, after we talked to him through WeChat. They showed us few venues and explained the different packages they were offering. After we came back home and decided to go with one of chapel package. The wedding day, CJ brought along with his crew members with him. The Whole team are professional, enthusiastic and so easy to work with. I am so glad that we chose him as our wedding planner.
CJ and his entire team are exceptionally pleasant and easy to work with. They combine their above average customer service with affordability and an abundance of creativity and exp...
erience. Thank you for making our wedding run so smoothly and look so beautiful! It was nice enjoying the day without having to worry about anything. The ceremony and reception just looked amazing! I would highly recommend any of their services to anyone needing a bit of help or a lot of help with their wedding (or event)
My fiance and I are from a small town in Idaho so planning a destination wedding seemed incredibly difficult. After almost signing with another wedding coordinator, we found Hawaii...
-Day Wedding & Events and called CJ immediately. Our conversation showed to my fiance and I that we had found our fit! CJ, Emma, Michael and Brad (with their whole team behind the scenes) made our day better than we could have imagined or planned for. We had never been to the our wedding location and neither had they. Needless to say, they know exactly what they are doing and willing to accommodate whatever wishes we had. Honestly, we can't thank them enough for making our day so wonderful! Book them A.S.A.P!
Janelle was a fun and terrific planner and made all the details of the wedding simple and organized from the moment we contacted Hawaii-Day! She made sure to keep us updated on eve...
rything that we needed to do throughout the process and communicated with us reliably, making sure that we were always in the loop, knowing everything we needed to know and on time.
Unfortunately, Janelle wasn't able to be present with us on the actual wedding day, but CJ and the rest of the team were very helpful and made the event fun from start to finish! I didn't need to concern myself with anything, and we were able to perform a beautiful wedding on the scenic Waimanalo Bay Beach without any issues at all.
We've just received the ceremony and highlights videos, and they are very high quality and beautifully done and capture all the best moments!
Last, but not least, for such a complete package (photos, videos, ceremony, decorations, hair/makeup, etc) and excellent, personal service, the price was way below the competition. Other wedding planners we considered in Hawaii had to stretch themselves quite a bit to even come close to what Hawaii-Day was offering from the outset.
Definitely recommend if you're looking to have a wedding in Hawaii, on Oahu!
My coworker recommended CJ’s team to me. Her wedding photos look so great and they were taken a couple years ago! Many thanks to CJ’s team! I chose coordinator, photographer, video...
grapher, make-up artist and florist from Hawaii-Day. Everybody is so friendly and helpful. Emma provided me tons of great suggestions about wedding planning. She helped me take care of all sorts of communications with different vendors. My wedding turned out SO beautiful! I got my videos and original photos in less than 2 weeks. I just got the edited photos. They are gorgeous. I highly recommend CJ’s team!!
My wife and I had a fantastic experience planning and executing our wedding with CJ and his team. It all started roughly a year before our wedding date when we decided to have a de...
stination wedding in Hawaii (we are from the continental U.S.). Having never been to Hawaii , we wanted to work with someone who’s very knowledge about local culture and different venues, who’s prompt in answering our questions and who can strike good deals on our behalf. CJ offers very comprehensive packages with a variety of options and we were very satisfied to be able to find something we like. My wife also had a great experience working with Emma who was there every step of the way to answer all her questions regarding decorating the venue and other logistics for the day of the wedding to ensure everything was arranged the way she wanted. During the actual wedding day, we were even more impressed with Cj and his photo/filming crew’s professionalism and everything went beyond our expectations! In fact, we were so happy with how our wedding planned out that we decided to work with CJ again for our 1-year anniversary photo shoot in Hawaii again! Overall, If you are looking for someone who’s professional, communicative, and flexible in personalizing a wedding plan that suits your need, CJ and his team are highly recommended!
Janelle was fantastic! She was responsive leading up to the wedding and very accommodating to our requests. She visited the venue for us, and providing excellent wedding day coordi...
nation to make our wedding go as planned. Highly recommended!
CJ is a fantastic wedding planner!!! He and his team helped me plan my wedding in Feb 2016. Having a destination wedding could be very stressful and difficult for someone who has n...
ever been to Hawaii before. CJ is very easy to work with. He helped me pick a perfect venue for my small wedding. His team also took care of everything including photographer, videographer, florists, venue decoration, make-up designer and DJ. The all-inclusive package his team provided is a great relief for me since I only had 5 months to plan my wedding. And I must say that the photographer and videographer in his team are the BEST!!! They took fantastic pictures and video! On the wedding day, he is a great coordinator even though he was a little bit under the weather. He made sure that everything is on schedule and kept my guests entertained. Anyway, CJ is a very reliable wedding planner and full of surprises! I would highly recommend him if you're planning your big day in Hawaii!!
I hired CJ as my wedding coordinator for my big day in June 2016. I would honestly say that CJ well executed every single task as we communicated and even stepped out of his zone b...
y also playing the roles of part time photographer, translator, makeup assistant and weather forecaster hah! He is the man! Although my hotel has their own coordinator, I strongly recommend CJ as he is a person you can trust and rely on. With him I wasn't nervous at all on my big day. The big plus: his photography style isn't the usual one you will find around. His is very scenic and colorful, even in cloudy days! A must go for blue sky/ocean seeking brides!
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