About this vendor
Pilialoha Productions is a full service wedding and event planning company. It is our priority to provide our clients with the utmost care and a level of service that is parallel to none. We are passionate about planning and meticulous about details so that you don’t have to be.
It is our goal to produce an event that showcases the personalities and unique styles of our brides and grooms, especially with the non-traditional nature of today’s modern couples. From simplicity to pure elegance, you CAN have it all.
Our team is excellent at marrying details and designs to make your vision come to life. We are committed to creating and delivering a once in a lifetime, memorable, stress-free and seamless event.
Details
Destination Weddings
- Destination Wedding Planning
Planning
- Budgeting
- Day-Of Coordination
- Destination Wedding Planning
- Full Service Wedding Planning
- Honeymoon Planning
Wedding Activities
- Getting Engaged
- Engagement Party
- Honeymoon
- Rehearsals & Parties
- After Party
- Bridal Luncheon
Awards and Affiliations
3-Time 'Best of Weddings'
2020.2019.2018.
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4.9
out of 5.045 reviews
Hiring Pili was the best decision for our wedding day. Pili and her team played a huge role in ensuring our wedding day went smoothly. She is the best planner in the game!
About to be a year so I figured it's about time I wrote a review #islandtime
Where to even begin...hiring Pili and the Pilialoha Productions team was hands-down the best decisio...
n we made! We were a California couple, planning a destination wedding so having a LOCAL and EXPERIENCED coordinator was a must. After picking our Kualoa Ranch wedding venue, she came highly recommended and we are so grateful to have had her guide us, support us and hold our hands through it all. From the start of the interview, my husband and I immediately clicked with her and our main takeaway was that she was 1) legit, 2) super experienced and 3) knew the ins-and-outs of Kualoa Ranch (especially our venue at Palikū Gardens).
Trying to plan a destination wedding is stressful enough -- planning while navigating the pandemic was a whole another beast. Pili handled all our communications with vendors, which was a HUGE relief because everyone's on island time and she had the magic touch to get things done. Communication was stellar, through all the video calls, phone calls, texts, emails and DMs (not to mention my millions of questions) -- alleviated so much stress to have somebody on the grounds, updating us with everything and keeping us on track. The only time that communication was understandably slow was when she was in the hospital, pregnant with her third child (yes, not only is she the best wedding coordinator, she is also an incredible SUPER-MOM). Another bonus of hiring Pili was the discounts we received from other vendors, a fantastic perk of hiring somebody who's been in the event planning business this long!
Fast-forward to the wedding day (because I have a max letter count). I am panicking about the weather because the weather app is telling me that a thunderstorm is expected during our ceremony. Thankfully, the rain held off during the ceremony and poured for a bit during half of our cocktail hour with clear skies afterwards. My parents told me afterwards that Pili and her team seamlessly swooped in to gather and move items out of the rain and ushered all the guests to the reception area to keep everyone dry (tg we had a tent). Endless praise from both our parents, family members and friends about how great Pili and her team was. Throughout the wedding, she kept us on schedule, encouraging us to eat during the reception (oops), and at the end of the unforgettable night making sure to shoo-away guests so we could savor our last dance together. Even after the wedding, she helped with getting a refund from one of the vendor's missing items.
My husband would like to add-on that Pili was also great with stress management. Something about a wrong item on the day-of and Pili telling the groom "DON'T TELL HER I WILL FIX IT". So thankful I was blissfully unaware of this going on in the background.
Truly an amazing wedding coordinator -- unmatched experience, stellar communication, incredibly down-to-earth, kind and caring human being. Pili absolutely enhanced our wedding and all our wedding planning dreams came true because of her! We are so so appreciative to have had her by our side. Mahalo to Pili and her team!
I live in NJ and we decided to have a small destination wedding, Pili was amazing in helping us plan a dream wedding! She had a great attention to detail and was so helpful in putt...
ing together great vendor recommendations and getting us what we needed and wanted. She secured all the vendors we chose and put together a great timeline. She is kind and was able to answer any question we ha. I didn't have to stress over anything, she handled everything so well and me my husband, and all my guests had such an amazing time and everything looked so beautiful. She is great at what she does!
Look no further! Pili of Pilialoha Productions is the best and most knowledgeable planner in Hawaii. No idea is too big, she will make it happen. Pili has all the local connection...
s and vendors love working with her. Communication was always clear, professional, and extremely timely. We changed locations twice in the middle of the pandemic and Pili made it a breeze. Our families complimented how amazing she was on the wedding day in moments that we were not able to witness ourselves. Choosing Pilialoha Productions for our planning and day of coordination is the best decision we made for our special day. Thank you Pili ❤️
I live in California and decided to have a destination wedding….during Covid. Just that sentence alone would probably make you think I’m crazy but, Pili made it so easy to accompli...
sh this. I told her where I wanted the wedding and also sent her photos of what I wanted the overall look & vibe to be and she sent me vendors with proposals for everything. Any questions I had she answered quickly. We went over the timeline for the wedding a couple weeks before the wedding. My vacation time wasn’t interrupted and my mind was completely at ease the 5 days I was in Oahu leading up to the big day! The day of went so incredibly smooth and it looked better than I could have ever hoped. Pili and her team made planning a wedding during a pandemic super easy and perfect.
Pili was the absolute best! Planning a wedding during the pandemic with fluctuating restrictions and guest counts was challenging but Pili helped us navigate all of it. Her vendor...
recommendations, and her communications with them took a lot of stress off the wedding planning. I appreciated her expertise, honest opinions and she was truly a pleasure to work with. Finally, Pili and her team were hands down the most essential people the day of our wedding. Even with a few unexpected hiccups, she took care of it all, and thanks to her it was truly was an amazing and perfect day for us and our guests.
Pili played a big part in one of the best days of my life. I can confidently say that without her, my wedding wouldn’t have been the big success that it was. From planning the wedd...
ing with us, to making sure we (myself, my wife, and my guests) were all taken care of on the day of the wedding. She was friendly, but kept us in check when we needed it during the planning. She coordinated the day of so smoothly that I didn’t need to worry about anything, just enjoy my time, which was very critical. Our guests gave us many compliments about her too! Lastly, all the vendors we had that she recommended were amazing too. She truly did put together the wedding we wished for!
Pilialoha and her team were just what we needed for our wedding day...someone to take charge of the reigns (almost entirely) and let you enjoy the day without any stress. Pili and ...
her team were just wonderful with the set-up and moving things along the timeline. Equally as important, they were receptive and flexible to any last minute changes (not major ones) and move the show rolling without a glitch!
Pilialoha also specializes at Kualoa Ranch, so if your wedding is there, you should definitely get her. She knows the location like the back of her hand, and knows all the vendors that are familiar with the location, for ease of coordination. Pilialoha will also ensure that you have an answer or solution for every single thing the wedding day entails, to include a long list of things we would have never though of ever!
A wedding coordinator should be the conductor of the symphony of your wedding, and that's what Pilialoha Productions does for you. I highly recommend Pili to anyone!
Responsive, warm, knowledgeable. Really makes you feel comfortable and is very calming and personable!
we had our wedding at Kualoa Ranch on Aug 29,2019 and hired Pili as our day of coordinator. She was able to work with our vendors to ensure that our special day went smoothly. Our ...
wedding was more beautiful than we could have imagined. All of our guests said it was the best wedding they’ve ever been to.
We had no idea what went into planning a wedding and we are SO GLAD we hired Pili as our partial wedding planner! She was super helpful throughout the planning process! The day of ...
our wedding she was amazing! Everything turned out better than we expected! She knows what looks good and what doesn't and will be honest with you which we loved! Couldn't have imagined our big day without her!
Pili and her team were our go-to for connections to wedding resources and an organized timeline. I’m a bit of an overachiever so it was great to work with someone who helped to ens...
ure my vision was executed that day.
We had a 500 headcount wedding with two open bars, a huge food line, detailed decorations and interactive activities. As you can imagine there were multiple vendors that needed to get things to the venue in a timely fashion so that everything ran smoothly... and Pili made sure to pick up where there was any slack.
I needed pumpkins, she got me pumpkins. She saw that I needed help with set up and cleaning up of tables... her team did that for us. She made sure we ate and had stuff to drink. She took important things to our car for storage. All the running around so that we didn’t need to look at our timeline once.
We were able to enjoy ourselves on our wedding day because pili and her team made sure we had everything we needed. and if we didn’t have it... she did whatever it took to get us what we wanted.
Mahalo Pili!
When we first started planning our wedding, we were looking for a planner to help us bring our vision to life. We live in Tor, Canada and Hawaii was our dream destination to host o...
ur wedding. We met different planners and when we found Pili we were drawn to her energy and was confident in her experience as a wedding coordinator.
Pili went above and beyond to help us celebrate and enjoy our wedding day with our loved ones. We could not have asked for more. Details were as we pictured and vendors did an amazing job executing and ensuring we did not have anything to worry about.
Thank you Pili for all your help and ensuring our wedding vision came to fruition!
As a bride planning her wedding from the east coast, finding a wedding planner that could execute our plans remotely was important. We booked Pilialoha Productions for 3 months out...
to include day of coordinating. She was great. I'm going to preface this review to say that my outlook on wedding planning was to not procrastinate and if I could plan everything out well before I actually got to Hawaii I would have. But things like ordering leis, table seating, etc. is just not something you can always do far out in advance.
3 months out: The time difference was tough so we relied on email or text communication - which worked ideally to me. I really didn't have a lot of vision for the details initially - so Pili was excellent with suggestions and giving me options to ponder over. I appreciated that she kept in mind that I had a budget to stick to and kept additional costs low. She was also not pushy when I declined a suggestion. She was super helpful with picking up custom items I ordered for our wedding (again super amazing since I couldn't pick it up beforehand) and she even ordered our table seating for us instead of me having to shop around for a vendor. That was excellent customer service.
Wedding day: She showed up the day of on time (very important to any bride) and was able to execute everything perfectly. I could not have been happier. She really went above and beyond to make sure every detail was covered. I did not have to worry about a single thing on my wedding day. Isn't that all a bride wants?? To relax and have fun and create memories on the day of. People ask me if anything went wrong on that day and I honestly tell them "not that I'm aware of". And I'm confident that that is because I had Pili and her team to manage all the details and any hiccups that may have occurred. She also brought everything back to our room so I didn't have to worry about breakdown of the wedding and getting help from friends/relatives to help bring things back to the resort. Again, I could just relax :)
Final review: Hire a coordinator. It was the one recommendation I received as I was planning my wedding. It is just too stressful to handle the vendors, the hiccups, the deliveries, the music, the set up etc. on the day of. Pili has a wealth of knowledge and experience along with excellent customer service that makes her great at what she does. She was easy to communicate with and a joy to work with. I'm slightly type-A and I appreciated that she understood my needs and requests and was able to execute the day of. I have zero regrets and only happy memories from our special day and I know that in large part had to do with Pilialoha Productions.
Let me begin by saying I COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT HER! (Baby Shower of the Year) Not only is this my first baby but I’m also someone who has an extravagant taste in things, a...
nd have a huge following on social media ! So the pressure to throwing a baby shower that will live up to my standards and being 7-8 months pregnant with only 1 month to get it all in order was intense !! A friend recommended Pili , and at first I was skeptic because Frankly I’ve never had a party planner. A few other friends recommended other party planner companies and I inquired but something about pili’s first response to me made me feel she was my best bet. And I’m not going to lie, I probably was so difficult to deal with ( mind you I was 7/8 months pregnant and still working and full of hormones going crazy ) so when everything came out perfect and ran smoothly I cannot stress enough how much help having hired Pili. She was efficient and yet gentle but also resilient on making sure MY dream baby shower happened. My shower was talk of the town for weeks and people’s face still light up when mentioning seeing the recap pics & videos! I would recommend Pili to all my friends and family for any event ! She knew all the vendors or if she didn’t she found some to fulfill all my wild requests! She had great energy even if I didn’t and helped execute each task with elegance. If I sound like a huge fan it’s because I am ! Nothing more satisfying than getting more than your money’s worth <3
We knew wedding planning from the Mainland, and juggling work, school, and our 1 year old son would be a handful so we hired Pili as our partial wedding planner. She was very hones...
t, which we appreciated. Communication wasn’t as great as we would have liked it to be but we communicated 99% of the time via email since we were planning from the Mainland and it was easier for us since I worked at night and slept during the day. The day of, she was excellent and our vision exceeded our expectations. My husband and I were able to relax, enjoy, and take everything in as you should do on the day of your wedding. We had some minor mishaps but we didn’t have to worry about it because Pili was there to take care of it all. Overall, we would definitely recommend Pili to other couples and thanks to her and her team it was definitely one of the best days of our lives. We wish we could relive that day again. Mahalo Pili!
Pili is AMAZING! How can I describe Pili..If you’ve ever seen THE WEDDING PLANNER movie with Jennifer Lopez? Well that’s how Pili was for my daughters wedding. She took away all of...
our stress and made this day memorable for my daughter and our family! I would highly recommend her to anyone who wants a stress free wedding! This lady can handle a large or small wedding! She is tough with everyone around her to get the job done and sometimes you just need someone like that! She was a blessing for me and I’m so grateful for the opportunity of knowing her.
Pili is amazing, and if you're looking for a planner, she's the one! She made sure that everything went off without a problem, even when the hotel tried to throw us some curveball...
s. I was able to be a relaxed bride and enjoy the day, because I knew Pili had everything in hand. She and her assistant set up the reception quickly by transferring flowers from the ceremony, and having all the table settings perfect for dinner. She also took pictures of the everything so I had some photos until the professional photos came back. Thank you Pili for making it an amazing and stress free day.
The best way to judge a wedding coordinator is the end product, and the wedding was perfect from start to finish. We had a plan B for rain, and we were able to stick to the origina...
l set up despite rain clouds above, and it didn't rain! Everything was laid out nicely, and planning the wedding remotely, it was a very pleasant surprise to see everything come together. One minor issue we had was communication, especially since we were on the mainland and she was in Hawaii, but we learned to be patient and persistent with emails. She was accommodating with phone meetings to help us feel good about the wedding as it came together. Highly recommend her and her team for wedding coordination.
I'm so glad I worked with Pili to plan my wedding. Even though it was a small group of guests, she spent so much time making the day perfect. She is extremely knowledgeable about l...
ocal vendors and isn't afraid to be realistic about logistics and expectations. She really went above and beyond so that I didn't have to stress at all on my big day! I was planning my wedding all the way from New York, but Pili made the process so easy!
When you're planning the most important event of your life and you need peace of mind, we highly recommend Pili! Even with being the "planner" type ourselves, Pili's prep question...
s brought up so many details that we would not have even thought about. The week of, we ran into a few unplanned circumstances that were out of her control and she was able to resolve them for us immediately. When you are planning on a budget, it is the simple details that can elevate your special day. You need someone who will be honest and decisive. Again, being the "planner" type, we wondered how it would be the day of? I was hoping I would be able to get out of my head and just really live in the moment. We are so grateful to Pili and her team as we were able to do just that, live in our moment. She was able to execute and bring our vision to life! She was honest with her vendor recommendations, which was much appreciated. Her and her team ensured that the venue looked as if our wedding never happened, allowing for us to receive our full deposit back. I run one of the most busiest Four Seasons restaurants and we do a lot of events so I know what it takes behind the scenes to make events as big as ours happen seamlessly. Seriously, on a day as important as this one, you should never compromise and always treat yourself to THE VERY BEST and let Pili and her team to bring your dream to life!!!
We live in California and was celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary in Honolulu. We needed the day of planner but Pili only offer the one month out service. When I contact Pili ...
it was almost a month out, yikes! She was available because the event landed on her bday, she was going to take the day off. Pili was our savior! She went out of her way and did so much more then expected. The remaining of our planning was a lot more than one month out. Pili dealt with vendors, changes and all the last minute details so efficiently.
Pili was honest but gentle with her feedback. I have a very busy schedule but Pili was able to accommodate me. We communicated via text most of the time. Which was great. We became friends because she's that awesome! We thank her and her team for such a seamless job!!!
The day of the wedding was perfect!
Pilialoha made my wedding a dream come true. She was absolutely amazing since the first email I sent saying I was interested in her services till the very end of my wedding day (ac...
tually even a week after). Her prices are reasonable and very worth it. Pilialoha helped make the wedding planning process so easy and painless. I told her what I wanted and she made the picture in my head into a reality. Pilialoha and her team went above and beyond to make my special day nothing less than amazing!
Pili is an incredible person & very talented at her job. I hired her for my wedding at Kualoa Ranch and she worked with me to make every single detail come to life in the wedding o...
f our dreams.
I brought my ideas to her and she helped manifest them -- with her impressive vendor list & local connections- she made sure the ceremony & reception were absolutely perfect. We had an event the night before our wedding--for a South Asian henna ceremony--and her warmth & kindness made everyone feel like she was a part of the family.
We recommend Pili wholeheartedly! She is fabulous!
Pili did an EXCELLENT JOB at planning my wedding with only 3 months to organize ... I’m a born an raised local country girl from Oahu and usually we don’t hire wedding planners bu...
t instead ask our families to help... however I wanted my family to relax for my wedding so I hired Pili and she helped me find the perfect vendors to ensure our wedding guests didn’t have to lift a finger! She is sooo easy to work with and is very efficient in getting everything done! And she also got along with my family soooo well! I’d Definitely recommend her to plan your dream wedding, whether you are local or planning destination wedding!
Pili was absolutely fantastic! We did things a bit backwards because we ended up looking for a wedding coordinator after booking all of our vendors. We didn’t think that through at...
the time but when we mentioned that to Pili, she was immediately on it, getting contracts in order, working with the venue, and getting programming together. When we say she was on it we are not beating around the bush. Pili was extremely professional and had everything in line and ready to go from start to finish! With her by our side, every bit of stress from the event was washed away because she was running the show. On the day of the wedding she went above and beyond to add final touches to our wedding such as our personailzed me and mrs plates, additional signage at the bars and ceremony, quick snapshots of important moments that she sent to us immediately etc.. She is highly recommended by us, she is quick with her responses from a communication standpoint and just as quick with getting the job done with quality at her side!
Pilialoha is an outstanding choice as a wedding planner! Our wedding day was a total success due in large part to her connections and relationships with vendors, organizational ski...
lls, commitment to complete last minute tasks, and professionalism.
Pili was amazing! From the first time meeting with her we knew that her personality was a great fit for us. She was very cool, calm, and collective and you could tell that she wa...
s very comfortable and confident in the work that she does. Throughout the whole process she was very helpful and gave us some great recommendations. The day of the wedding was obviously very stressful for us but we didn't have to worry about any of the planning because Pili had everything taken care of. We were very fortunate for having her plan our wedding and it turned out to be absolutely perfect.
Pili took care of us from the jump! Chelsea and I repeatedly told each other that having such an organized and experienced Day Of planner was the best decision we made throughout t...
he wedding planning and coordination.
Mahalo Pili and Crew for being a part of what our friends and Ohana have referred to as one of the favorite weddings ever! If I ever get married again I'll totally work with you agai....nah nah nah!!!! Happily Married! Mahalo & Aloha!
My wife and I had our wedding at the beautiful Kualoa Ranch. The setting is amazing and I can't be more praising of the location. Pili was also a great person to help us on the day...
. She helped organize vendors, sourced options, while being conscious of budget. In the week of the wedding and on the day itself, she was great in organizing and dealing with things, troubleshooting any little niggles, all so that we didn't have to. My wife mentioned how much she appreciated how Pili and her team were so helpful on the day, paying attention to all the little details.
I would recommend Pili to anyone organizing a wedding in Hawaii, particularly if it is a destination wedding.
- Peter
Pili made planning a destination wedding so easy. Everything was perfect. She was able to go with the flow and adjust things last minute to accommodate the rain. And she did this a...
ll 9 months pregnant! She is so sweet and still checks in with my family and me over a year later. Highly recommended.
We had our wedding a few months ago and made the huge mistake of hiring the recommended coordinator, Pilialoha Productions. We hired Pili and her team for full day-of-coordination ...
services and had such a HORRIFIC experience.
- Our contract stated we would have 2 coordinators on the day, but only 6 days before the wedding, Pili told us that she wasn’t actually going to be at our wedding because she had “a bigger wedding Downtown” (yes that is exactly what she said to us while we were doing a site tour of the venue with our families). So since we only had 1 coordinator, she decided she would not co-ordinate the ceremony at all and instead go setup the reception. Well I’m pretty sure the main part of the wedding is getting the ceremony right.
- We met our actual wedding coordinator the day before the wedding, when Pili insisted that we give her everything to setup the reception (not the ceremony because we had to set that up ourselves). We had to travel to meet her rather than them coming to us (ok fine, we’ll go out of our way the day before the wedding to accommodate them). We gave her all the decorations, name cards, favours etc in ONE big box the afternoon before the wedding. When I got to the venue, I was told that the coordinator had lost the name cards which my maid of honour had painstakingly handwritten for our 100 or so guests. I could not believe how a ziplock bag that was packed into the one big box that we handed over only 12 hours prior, had gone missing. She also ended up losing my bouquet before the bouquet toss.
- We noticed a woman who wasn’t a guest, was with the wedding coordinator at the reception and did not introduce herself to my husband or I the entire night. The guests noticed she was taking food from the buffet in takeout boxes while they were still eating appetizers. I still don't know who that woman was.
- We tried contacting Pili after the wedding but she never responded or contacted us to this day. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.
Pili made planning our destination wedding so easy! She had amazing vendor connections so it was simple enough to use her preferred list to know who to book. She handled all the co...
mmunication and the day of coordination so we never had to do anything but initially pick the vendors and provide her with pictures of our vision! The day of our wedding it rained, and with an outdoor ceremony and reception I was so worried, but she made sure it went off with a hitch! THANK YOU PILI!!!! She's the best!
Pilialoha was such a pleasure to work with! She went above and beyond what was expected and really helped us put together our dream wedding. She is truly amazing at what she does a...
nd had the answer to every question I asked. My guests were impressed by how well organized our wedding was, and we even got to relax and enjoy our meal and the night without any stress, all thanks to Pilialoha! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND HER to ANYONE planning their wedding on Oahu, she will definitely show results in whatever it is you are looking for, while throwing in suggestions that you may end up preferring. Everything turned out to be SO beautiful, professional, organized, and better than we could've imagined!
Pili was very organized, experienced, and helpful! I was hesitant to get a coordinator at first because I'm a bride on a budget, but she was worth the peace of mind on the wedding ...
day and the whole week leading up to it :)
Perfection!!!
We did a destination wedding, and Pili truly made our wedding dreams come true. She heard our vision, and it came together better than I could have possibly imagined!...
Even now, we are still gushing about how great everything went. Not only did we have the time of our lives, but our guests did too. She was so sweet, professional, and incredibly patient with us (we are very indecisive people!). Thank you Pili for being so wonderful to us and our guests!!!!
If you want the wedding of your dreams - look no further!! :)
I do not feel I have enough words to describe how wonderful Pilialoha was throughout our entire wedding experience. From her extreme professionalism, to her awesome sense of humour...
, she made me feel comfortable and confident that our wedding was going to go off without a hitch and it sure did!!! I originally had hired Pilialoha for partial/day of services and not only did she go above and beyond our expectations in that regard (we had a flawless wedding day!), she also was extremely helpful even months after our wedding by being my advocate towards our unfortunately unprofessional wedding photographer. Having had a destination wedding in Hawaii (my husband and I are from Vancouver, BC), it was difficult to contact our photographer who is also from Oahu. Pilialoha was extremely helpful in not only contacting our photographer, but demanding that our photos be done as soon as possible, considering it was already 5 months past the expected delivery date. I was and still am extremely grateful for her efforts. She did not have to go out of her way to do anything for us after our wedding day, but that's the type of person she is. I would 100% recommend her services! Keep up the amazing work Pilialoha! <3
We got married on December 27, 2015 at Kualoa Ranch (Secret Island and Paliku Gardens). Pili was our wedding coordinator. She was wonderful and self sacrificing! She would check u...
p on us to see how we’re doing. She took the time to get to know us even with our conflicting schedules. This resulted in a wedding that reflected who we are and what we wanted in a wedding. She was very detailed oriented and made sure that everything was taken care of ahead of time so there was less stress on us. We wanted a wedding to occur within two months and she made it happen! We really appreciate her caring and loving attitude as well as her commitment to making our wedding the best it can be! We would highly recommend her to any of our friends who are getting married!
Keith and Roquel
We can't thank Pili enough for all she did to make our wedding day so special. We were planning everything from the mainland and had no experience/connections with any vendors on O...
ahu. Pili steered us in the right direction at every turn and found us everything and everyone we could possibly need in order for the big day to turn out great. Both my wife and I are incredibly "Type A" about all the details; we would've driven anyone crazy with all our edits to the timeline and super-specific requests. But when the big day came, everything went off on time and without a hitch, and we were really able to just relax and enjoy ourselves, as Pili had everything under control. Thanks, Pili!
If you are reading this, please do not go any further - you have found your wedding planner! ❤️ Words can not describe how incredibly lucky and grateful my husband Justin and I wer...
e to find Pili and have her come on board as our wedding planner and day-of coordinator! We were going through an incredibly difficult situation when our original wedding planner cancelled her services on us only 16 days before the wedding (!!!) - as you can imagine, an incredibly stressful, disappointing and hurtful thing to go through for any bride and groom 😔 However, that same day Pili was highly recommended to us as an incredibly professional, organized, respectful and extremely talented wedding planner and day-of coordinator ❤️ We were so grateful and excited to talk to Pili soon after and arrange for a first meeting where she ended up all that she was described as and so much more! She helped ease all of our doubts and fears and said one thing that helped me completely relax as a bride - "Don't worry, I got it! You will have the most beautiful wedding ever!" From that moment on, Pili was an absolute joy and honor to work with - incredibly fast at responding to emails, making calls, finishing up the timeline, arranging everything with vendors and the site, helping with gathering any wedding props, helping with all of the finishing touches while setting up and doing so much more... ❤️ All I can say is that our wedding at Paliku Gardens at Kualoa Ranch not only exceeded our expectations and gave us the opportunity to celebrate our love with our family and friends in the most magical way, but we have also gained a lovely friend in Pili! We call her our "wedding angel" and we know that she is the right choice for a wedding or any other event you might have in mind! Thank you for everything Pili, we love you ❤️ Ivana & Justin
Pili was absolutely amazing! I felt completely at ease with her planning my wedding. She was super helpful and even took a call when she just had her baby to make sure I was feelin...
g ok with how the planning was going. I would absolutely recommend her to future brides! :)
I was planning my wedding from California and really wanted someone who was in Oahu, familiar with the venue, and who knew local vendors. I appreciated Pili's vendor recommendation...
s and knowledge.
I did find that she was sometimes slow to respond, and that her working as the middleman was not always the most efficient. There were times when I felt like I had to follow up too much, and I wished she would have pushed a bit more to work within my timeline (I needed vendors finalized earlier than probably most brides).
All that being said, Pili shined during the week of our wedding. We had to make last minute adjustments because the venue's tent got destroyed, and she negotiated well so that the venue didn't put the cost on us to rent a different tent. On the day of, it poured at our outdoor venue so our timeline was delayed. And like with all weddings there were things that went wrong and people that were not very cooperative. Pili was very professional and helpful during this time and made sure that what we wanted panned out, so that our day was ultimately extremely special. It was a such a big relief to hand the organization and problem solving over to her when we were busy with our families and all the events during the week.
I wasn't sure if I wanted a coordinator when I began planning my wedding but was encouraged to do so by my husband and the event coordinator at the venue we booked. I'm so glad I d...
id! Iit took a lot of stress off of me and allowed me to enjoy and really soak in all the meaningful aspects my wedding. She was professional, efficient and very easy to work with. She even made sure I ate which I'm sure a lot of brides forget to do! Her helper was awesome too and they stayed until the very end to make sure everything was taken care of. Highly recommend using her for your wedding! MAHALO PILI!!
We chose Pili for our day of coordinator because she was down to earth, knew the venue well, and provided consistent replies and advice along the decision process . I could not ha...
ve asked for a better person to help with the finishing touches on the day of our wedding . Pili was sweet, observant, timely, organized, and did much more than I asked . Her price was very fair considering other quotes I received and I highly recommend her . We are for California and I planned most things online so it was cecto have a local person to help me .
Pili was absolutely wonderful for our wedding. She was always available by phone prior to the wedding (we were planning our wedding from another state) and was professional and pr...
esent for both the rehearsal and all of the wedding day. I would absolutely recommend her to any bride for coordination services! She was a lifesaver.
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