About This Vendor
Personal Touch and Stress-Free Wedding Planning
Let Laurie and our staff create all your wedding dreams from beginning to end. Whether it's just the two of you or your family and friends of 200, you will have memories for a lifetime. Your special day is as important to us as it is to you and your planning with Makena Weddings will be stress-free.
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Reviewed On 3/23/2014 by Melanie S
Laurie and her team planned my dream wedding! Everything was perfect. My now husband and I went to Maui a year ago to pick our wedding planner and venue. When we met Laurie she made me feel so comfortable and got my vision right away. We pl...
Reviewed On 2/24/2014 by Leslie N
Makena Weddings, is in our minds, the pinnacle of top wedding and event planners, they are truly the best, and it shows from their attention to detail and their genuine love for their brides and grooms and what they do.
We love Laurie and Al, ...
Reviewed On 10/30/2013 by C Y
Laurie planned and delivered the fairy tale wedding that we had hoped for. In fact, she exceeded our expectations. My friends and family stated that the wedding was something that you only saw in a movie, and we were finally in one.
We hire...
Reviewed On 11/01/2018 by Anna L
Laurie and Cindy were a delight to work with! They are both so friendly and helpful. I mainly worked with Cindy throughout the planning process for almost a full year before our wedding in July 2018. They have fabulous vendors to work with - I ...
Reviewed On 9/29/2018 by Brynn R
If you are getting married in Maui, I HIGHLY recommend that you use Makena Weddings. Cindy and Laurie are AMAZING! True miracle workers! I started planning my wedding 15 months prior to the event date. Cindy and Laurie gave us really great vend...
Reviewed On 8/16/2018 by Francesca P
Without a doubt, I would recommend Makena Weddings to help you with your special day! Cindy and Laurie were so wonderful to work with! We interviewed several other wedding planning companies and loved the "aloha" we felt after speaking with M...
Reviewed On 7/06/2018 by Toby E
We live in Oregon and I started planning our Maui sunset wedding over a year in advance. Their wedding packages and ability to add/remove things was very helpful and allowed a tuned wedding package for our small wedding: for example, I was ab...
Reviewed On 4/25/2018 by Marianne E
From day one, Cindy and Laurie reassured us that this would be an enjoyable process, which it was. They helped us every step of the way, were extremely flexible with the hours in which they made themselves available to us, answered the thousand...
Reviewed On 4/23/2018 by knottiecc1d1d9a2400e2d7
I can't recommend Makena Weddings enough. My husband and I were married at the beautiful Kukahiko Estate on April 12. The day could have not been more perfect. Laurie, Cindy, and Reverend Al are the best trio. So thoughtful, kind, smart and res...
Reviewed On 11/15/2017 by T.H. B
Laurie and Cindy with Makena Weddings were so wonderful in making the planning of my Maui elopement stress-free. It rained in Wailea for most of my wedding day in October. Cindy was so helpful and suggested “out-running” the rain. We did and ...
Reviewed On 10/31/2017 by Karen S
Makena weddings was fabulous! Laurie, Al and Cindy showered us with aloha spirit and listen to all of our requests for a very intimate ceremony for two . We have been a couple for over 15 years and decided to get married and our favorite vacati...
Reviewed On 10/30/2017 by Queenie C
Makena Weddings did a wonderful job with our wedding. Many of our guests told us it was the best wedding they had ever been to. What really stood out to me was the support and experience Laurie showed throughout our special day. She talked us t...
Reviewed On 9/18/2017 by Crystal L
Laurie and Cindy are the best wedding planners you could ever chose for
your destination wedding in Maui! It's such a daunting task to plan a
wedding from overseas, but when we first met these ladies, my then-fiance
and I knew we were in good ...
Reviewed On 8/12/2017 by Terra J
Laurie and Cindy were SO amazing to work with! I had a chance to meet with Laurie and Cindy about 11 months before our wedding as we live in Oahu and went over to Maui for a short wedding planning trip. They set up a food tasting and cake tasti...
Reviewed On 7/31/2017 by Wendy F
I just got married in Maui last weekend and can't say enough great things about Laurie and Cindy! From the start, Laurie was quick to respond and patient with my questions. When the flowers I wanted for my bouquet were being delivered in a les...
Reviewed On 7/14/2017 by Victoria P
Makena Weddings is Amazing!!! It was an absolute delight to meet and deal with Laurie and Al. Our sunset ceremony was simple but magical. Everything was organized so perfect even though mostly we talked over the phone and personally met only a ...
Reviewed On 6/27/2017 by Darcy D
I can't express enough how wonderful it was working with Laurie and Al. We arranged everything online and our simple ceremony was more than I expected! We could not have asked for a more touching ceremony. It felt like we'd known Laurie longer ...
Reviewed On 5/20/2017 by Sarah M
Laurie at Makena Weddings made our Kukahiko Wedding absolutely incredible. In fact, on their website is a short blog about our wedding and vendors and details to see for yourself! Laurie & Cindy make it happen. They ensured us that everything ...
Reviewed On 4/28/2017 by Bryan K
What great people to work with! My wife and I were married last week after coordinating our wedding with Makena Weddings from our home in Seattle. The whole process was easy, reasonably priced and most importantly to us, we were able to work wi...
Reviewed On 1/20/2017 by Emma D
We can’t say enough good things about Makena Weddings and what an incredible job that Laurie and Cindy did in making our wedding something that everyone is going to remember for a lifetime! No detail was left out and Makena Weddings was able to...
Reviewed On 12/17/2016 by Julie W
Our wedding on the beach will always be a magical memory thanks to the Makena Weddings Team. All expectations were exceeded! The planning was easy. After the first call with Laurie, any concerns we had about a destination wedding were put to...
Reviewed On 12/12/2016 by Robyn T
My husband and I are from Canada and, with the help of Laurie at Makena Weddings, we were able to plan our entire wedding from home without meeting our vendors ahead of time.
I must admit that I'm 100% type A, which meant that I had a long exce...
Reviewed On 10/27/2016 by Allison W
Several of my guests told me that our wedding was the best they've ever been to. This is certainly do to, in no short way, Laurie, Cindy, and Al. What an exceptional team! Laurie and Cindy coordinated with me for over a year and managed to give...
Reviewed On 7/26/2016 by Debbie F
Absolutely Amazing! Everyone that went to our wedding has told us it was the most beautiful and amazing wedding that they have ever been to..and it was. From the beautiful venue, to Reverend Al who made the ceremony special, to the decorations...
Reviewed On 4/04/2016 by Justine D
Laurie is an amazing coordinator! She made the planning process for a destination wedding so easy and a breeze. She made sure everything went perfect and looked amazing on our wedding day. Reverend Al made us feel like we had known him for for...