having weighed our choices, it seems like a destination wedding is in our future. there’s a part of me that is worried that trying to plan a destination wedding is going to be a far more laborious task. the idea of having to pick a venue, the flowers, the photographer, the on and on and on without having the luxury of meeting and interviewing each one of them seems a little daunting.
i’ve also briefly looked at photographers that are available on the big island and the web sites that i have seen so far are just awful. really. awful. like pre-1995 awful. yeah, dude. i might have even seen blinking words.
i haven’t searched very hard, but christi has looked at photographers available and she echoed the sentiment. i’m a little nervous, but also a little excited that we are making some progress with the wedding planning. they say that getting a location is the biggest and hardest thing to do, so i guess now that we are getting more focused, it’s starting to all feel real.
another big challenge has been finding a photographer. i have searched website after website and have been underwhelmed by the work of any of the big island wedding photographers that i’ve seen. so, i think we may have to import one. mike and i liked the photographers who shot steve and alisa’s wedding (elizabeth morgan photography) earlier this year. we liked the way they worked together, the way they interacted with guests, and of course, their photos turned out beautifully. one catch — the wedding was on oahu. i contacted elizabeth, and she said that she would travel, but we’d pay a premium on her package prices to cover travel expenses for her and scott, her assistant. i think they might be worth it. but maybe i’m a bit biased because i made it into her