Destination Wedding Tips: Advice from a Bride on Budget & Planning
If you are planning a destination wedding, then we recommend reading advice from our next bride. She provides helpful advice on how to eliminate stress from planning a destination wedding. From Flowers to helpful tips like, visiting before hand. Priceless advice to all you ladies planning a destination wedding.
Just keep scrolling down to find out more. And don't forget to check out all of the details from this Hawaiian beach wedding in pink and grey, captured by ANIKO Productions, in the full gallery here.
Destination Wedding Advice
From the Bride: I would highly recommend at least making one trip to the destination ahead of time. If we hadn't taken the trip we wouldn't have rested assured knowing that we had physically seen the venue (which pictures didn't do justice), tasted the food, and decided the best places for everyone to stay.
It was a piece of mind that I could recommend places to stay, food, and entertainment for our guests based off of my own visit there
Shoe Stress
I really stressed about my shoes for a couple of weeks also then came to realize that you dont even see the shoes so I finally picked up some $40 flat sandals and called it a day. I was so thankful day of and was so comfortable and never once thought about how uncomfortable I was. I could have danced for the entire day! It was so worth not wearing heels or being uncomfortable.
Buy Local
I had always been drawn to this flower called the Protea and added it to our invitations because the colors were just what I wanted and I loved how unique it was. My mom's friend who lives in Hawaii had taken us to the farmers market and the flowers were amazing and soooo cheap.
Be Curious
A word of advice, ask questions... ask other brides what they would change or what was something they couldn't live without? I did that with a couple of brides and it was the smartest thing ever. There is no better advice then from those who have directly gone through it.
Get a closer look at this Hawaiian beach wedding in pink and grey by watching the fabulous film created by Samantha Jeanne Videography below.
https://vimeo.com/113249226
Read on to see how much this Hawaiian beach wedding in pink and grey cost. Please note that costs change as the years go by, and prices are subject to change. This is just one couple’s breakdown to give you a rough estimate on how much a wedding like this may cost you.
Originally our budget was $15K but we came to realize that it was going to be more like $20K. I choose to spend more money on the actual venue because we wanted a more intimate location opposed to a resort where hotel goers could wander in!
Venue- $5,000
Photography- $3500
Videography- $850
Food- $2500
Tent and rentals (chairs, tables, plates, napkins everything catering related including staff) $4000
Hair and Makeup- $400 travel fee $350 for both hair and makeup DJ $1800
Alcohol- (Costco) $800
Flowers- $500
Hair crown- $150
Cookies- $250
Popcorn- $200
Wedding Planner- before, day of, and decorations- $3500
Ukulele player for 2 hours- $200
Private town car to hotel after $200
Dress- $1500 plus $500 alterations
- Event Planning & Design: Maggie Sottero
- Caterer & Prop/furniture rentals: Grass Shack
- Cinematography: Samantha Jeanne Videography
- Cookies: Le Cookie Monkey
- Dessert: My Popcorn Kitchen
- DIY Bouquet: Cloud Flower Protea & Farmers Market
- Dj: Tiger Jones Productions
- Event Planning & Design: Amanda Holder Events
- Flowers: Bliss In Bloom
- Groom & His Men: Perry Ellis
- Hair & Makeup: Powder Inc.
- Jewelry: Francescas
- Musician: Charles Grace of Nesiansoul Music
- Paper Goods & Calligraphy: Oak & Orchid
- Venue: Hale Ohi’a Kai
- Wedding Dresses: Bridal Exclusives