Featured: Alaska Airlines Magazine

Pacific Aisles is PROUD to announce their feature in the February issue of Alaska Airline's magazine! We would like to send a big MAHALO to Jennifer Schaefer of Alaska Airlines Magazine for writing such an amazing article about destination weddings and featuring our company!!!

With destination weddings being such a popular trend amongst couples who want to have an intimate celebration, going to the islands is the best way to go! We offer full coordination services, helping brides plan their wedding from beginning to end, as well as day-of coordination services, which is perfect for those couples who want to plan their own wedding, but would like to have us around the day of their wedding to make sure everything runs very smoothly. We have worked with couples from all over the nation as well as couples abroad, including Australia, Japan, and Hong Kong.

As noted in the article said by our talented coordinator, Christina Farrow, she states: "With today's technology, backed by a song list of talented wedding professionals, planning a Hawaiian Island wedding from afar has never been easier" (55). She also adds that "good communication via phone calls, email and video -in addition to providing clients with photos, sketches, seating layouts and fabric swatches- allows her to keep couples up to date on details of the planning process" (56-7). Which is why we are so thankful to the biggest most convenient resource available to man-kind...the internet!

Also featured in the article is our bride-and-groom-to-be: Kristi Clement and Mike Lord from Anchorage, Alaska. We will be celebrating their wedding on May 21st at the Loulu Palm Estate in Hale'iwa, on O'ahu, and look forward to making their wedding dreams come to life! In the article, it mentions that Kristi had "expected organizing a wedding in Hawai'i from Alaska to be a challenge...however, working with a wedding planner has made for a smooth process" (57).

To read the entire article, please click here and turn to page 40. OR you can visit http://www.alaskaairlinesmagazine.com/, click on the picture of the magazine, and then click on the link that states, "Alaska Airlines Magazine: February 2011 Issue" then turn to page 40. The most recent flash player must be installed to your computer in order to view the article.

Alaska Airlines offers daily service to O'ahu, Maui, Kaua'i, and the Big Island. To book an Alaska Airline Vacations package to Hawai'i, go to alaskaair.com or call 800.468.2248.

Julie + Vincent: Four Seasons Resort, Hualalai

I came across this beautiful black and white ceremony still from a wedding we planned for destination wedding couple, Julie and Vincent, as I was thumbing through location photos of the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at Historic Ka'upulehu. We'll be returning here for a wedding in November and this photo made me realize how much I adore the Big Island, and how much i adore WEDDINGS on the Big Island!

Mahalo to the talented Arna Johnson for this gorgeous ceremony photo!

Jackie + Siggy: Loulu Palm Estate

What started out as a beautiful destination wedding week of sunshine and warmth for this recent Spring wedding at Loulu Palm Estate on the North Shore turned into a cold and wet weekend and wedding day. But no amount of non-stop (and i mean non-stop) downpour was going to rain on this parade for Los Angeles based Australian couple, Jackie and Siggy.

Under parasols, guests enjoyed a barefoot in the sand beach ceremony looking out towards the sunset on the horizon, then moved up to the cocktail lounge overlooking the ocean for a festive cocktail hour of tropical drinks before heading into the reception tent for dinner and festivities.

Tropical cymbidium and mokara orchids, protea pincushions and ginger flowers in every bright shade of green, gold, and red graced guest dining tables. The clear top marquee canopy above reflected the color below with bright bold Chinese paper lanterns in the same hues. Green burlap envelopes with coconut clasps that was gifted to each guest held bars of locally hand produced natural soap from the North Shore Soap Factory in a variety of tropical ingredients, including pineapple, mango papaya, sugarcane and (our personal favorite) Kona coffee.

As in marriage, couples don't always have the pleasure of blue skies and sunshine to keep them warm. It was a beautiful thing to see to the newlyweds and their guests having the time of their lives regardless of what the weather had in store.

Congratulations Jackie & Siggy!

Thank you to Julia Sieber for these beautiful images!

Carol + Keith: Sneak Peak

Congratulations to newlyweds Carol and Keith Hamasaki on their recent Thanksgiving weekend wedding on Oahu's North Shore.

Enjoy a this sneak peak trailer of Carol and Keith's wedding day, courtesy of Aria Studios, and check back in for more photos of their simply beautiful wedding day.

TRAILER // keith + carol from ARIA Studios on Vimeo.

Carissa + Mike: Lanikuhonua

When San Diego bride, Carissa, reached out to us to help her plan her destination Hawaii wedding, one of the first things she mentioned was how much she loved our website, ESPECIALLY because it was BLUE. Little did we know how important COLOR would be to this wedding, but after a few meetings, it became VERY apparent that "bright" and "bold" and "colorful" would be the buzz words that would inspire the design for Carissa and Mike's intimate celebration. This would be no ordinary wedding!

Carissa already had her wedding dress picked out (a gorgeous, flowing, COBALT BLUE Amsale) and she knew that she would ask guests to wear WHITE, creating the perfect palette for bright, bold and colorful design. From there, we set out to create our own version of Disneyland's Enchanted Tiki Room (Disneyland is where Carissa and Mike got engaged!), oceanside at Lanikuhonua on the island of Oahu.

Wooden Monkeypod Chargers dressed up the vintage Hawaiian inspired tabletop, complete with pineapple vases filled with fresh island tropicals, including colorful hibiscus, ginger and monstera. Vintage style hula nodders, that guests took home as favors, were a hit. They completed their intimate tiki lounge look with oversized wooden vases filled with lush tropical flowers and foliage, and illuminated Buri Lanterns, that lit up the night and set a perfect mood for a vintage inspired celebration in paradise!

Carissa and Mike... What can i say?! I enjoyed every minute, and i mean EVERY minute of this fun and crazy planning process with you. I'm so thrilled to now call you my friends, and with our shared love (obsession more like) of poke, malasadas and all things vintage Hawaiian, i feel like we're practically family!

Thank you to Frank Amodo and Alex Rapada for capturing amazing images of the day!

(and Carissa, thank you for the sweetest review on YELP!)