Mauna Lani, Auberge Resorts Collection

We decided to get married here without ever even visiting the island prior. I do not regret it! Terra and Lauren are very responsive, accomodating and great to work with. Resort weddings are just expensive. No way around that. But it is worth if you are a busy bride and want most of the event planning taken care of for you. My guests were in awe and how beautiful the wedding, how great the service is, and how breathtaking the hotel ground are. Will definitely be back here to celebrate some anniversaries!

Great location. Beautiful and serene.

I chose my wedding site based on online reviews so feel compelled to give an A+ rating to Mauna Lani Bay Resort. My wedding was more spectacular than I couldve ever dreamed! The wedding coordinator made everything come together perfectly. The resort was the most beautiful on the island with friendly staff eager to please. They were able to give our guests a phenomenal deal on room rates and upgraded us with special treats throughout our stay. Everyone enjoyed all the complimentary amenities only the Mauna Lani offers. Our wedding with 18 guests in August 2011 was held in an intimate setting outside the Eva Parker Woods Cottage with the ocean at sunset behind us and the ancient fishponds in front. After our traditional Hawaiin ceremony, we walked back to hotel poolsidefor our reception with an open bar and the best wedding food I have ever eaten in large portions. I highly recommend Pinkie Crowe, wedding coordinator; David o Baldwin, photographer; Tom Fernandez, officiant;Ainahua florals, florist; Mauna Lani Spa, hair/makeup/nails. We will be returning for our anniversary and many years to come.

I had my wedding here last month and it was absolutely perfect. They took care of every last detail so on the actual day I could relax and be worry free. The location is breath taking and the pictures turned out amazing.

I have spent my whole life visiting this beautiful resort and it was my childhood dream to marry here. My love for this place has been punched out of me from planning my wedding here. My experience working with the hotel's wedding coordinator, Pinkie Crowe, was one of the most exasperating of my life. Dealing with her and her vendors was so impossible that my husband, myself and our families almost called off our Hawaiian dream wedding, forfeiting our deposits and airfare just to alleviate the stress of having to plan a wedding from 2000 miles away with the someone so completely inept, inefficient and insensitive. Planning any wedding is stressful but confounding it with such total incompetence that it sucks the joy out of what should be a joyous occasion is unacceptable. You should not fear and/or dread your wedding. It pains me to no end that with a wedding there is no "do-over" which is why I cannot more strongly urge you to look elsewhere. Just come to the resort for your honeymoon! All we wanted was a simple, small, elegant wedding and reception by the ocean with a handful of family and friends able to make the trip (12) and wanted to enjoy spending time with them. It shouldn't have been a big deal, but the feeling that made our skin crawl is that the Mauna Lani only cares about you if you are a BIG DEAL. Unless you have at least 50 guests ready and able to travel or are willing to get ripped off by meaningless "perks" like weak ceremony niblets (fruit skewers), unnecessary decorative lighting and superfluous photo/video packages . . . you'll likely be ignored the way we were. There's nothing worse than feeling like your wedding's their lowest priority. Regardless, we wanted to create something special and to have input on who our other vendors were, like our photographer. Another point we grappled with! It seems the hotel receives kickbacks when you use their "preferred vendors". Finding our own fantastic outside vendors was the saving grace for my sanity and best aspects of our wedding. After eight months of tireless efforts to communicate, and weeks without responses to decision making questions, we arrived to find key issues still not correct and/or settled, such as our ceremony style and rehearsal dinner menu. There was a constant retraction of what was "actually" available us - the elegant steak and seafood plated dinner originally offered was reduced to a family buffet of fried chicken and biscuits because of the number of rooms booked by my guests. Perhaps the most disturbing part was having to reiterate to Pinkie Crowe what prices and options she had initially offered me when she increased our commitment to guest rooms and impoverished our dinner buffet. I prey I will never have to wage a battle for Mahi Mahi again for the rest of my life. (***To their credit, my one star is earned by the quality of the food and service at the reception. The people taking care of you at the hotel are lovely and my guests enjoyed their stay. Like I said, good for honeymooning!***) In the end (among other things) Pinkie offended our friends and family at the ceremony AND reception, the minister read the WRONG ceremony (Hawaiian themed instead of Civil a.k.a."T'il death do us part"), and the hotel destroyed the top layer of my wedding cake before I even received it. I could not wait to leave. The Mauna Lani has been my family's most favorite vacationing spot since I was seven. I will likely never return after this experience.

Having my wedding at the Mauna Lani hotel was the best idea I've ever had! The wedding coordinator provided was incredible to work with. The location was Heaven on earth. And the staff was so incredibly nice to not only my fiance and I, but to our entire wedding party! With the hotel's offered wedding package, there was nothing for me to worry about or stress over organizing. If you want a wedding that will be beautiful, romantic and stress free, the Mauna Lani is for you!

Pinkie and her team were absolutely fantastic! I felt comfortable going into my day knowing that every single one of my crazy details would be taken care of. The day went perfectly and it was more beautiful then I could have ever imagined!! The site was perfect and everyone at the Mauna Lani were the BEST!!!