Getting married on Maui doesn’t need to be expensive and it is easier than ever to avoid spending hours on hours planning a wedding in Hawaii. Along with fast and easy wedding planning services there are many ways to customize an affordable Maui wedding package to fulfill your wildest dreams of tropical weddings in paradise. You still aren’t convinced you won’t need to spend a fortune to realize your dream for a wedding in Hawaii!? We understand. Though we’ve planned hundreds of weddings and assembled numerous packages for wedding budgets of all sizes and styles, you’ll still want to scan through our short list of ways to arrange and customize the most affordable package for a wedding on Maui:

1. Save on wedding rehearsal dinners by hosting a welcome barbecue – You’ll not only have the opportunity to personally welcome every guest that traveled for your wedding in Hawaii, a welcome guest reception is a more affordable option while including more guests than traditional wedding rehearsal dinners. With weddings on Maui more casual, there is often no need for a full rehearsal before the wedding. A quick walk through of the wedding timeline is usually all that is necessary and whoever is serving as a day of wedding coordinator will keep things on time. The chef will also be helpful in keeping the wedding on time so guests enjoy a delicious hot wedding reception menu without being rushed. Maui Chef Jorgensen carefully selects wedding photographers that won’t hijack a wedding timeline with lengthy photo sessions. While everybody wants great sunset wedding photography shots to remember their wedding on Maui, a skilled wedding photographer plans the shots ahead of time and promptly moves through arrangements while quickly assemble bridal parties, relatives and guests for composed or planned shots simultaneously capturing the best spontaneous wedding photographs.
2. Tropical flowers and natural decor for Maui beach weddings – Natural scenery and fresh tropical flowers provide island ambiance and most hold up well over several days for re-use at multiple wedding events. Since tropical flowers tend to be large, a few add a big visual impact for outdoor weddings. A few professionally arranged tropical wedding flower bouquets with colors matched to the wedding theme coupled with several vases filled with freshly cut fragrant Tuberose along with a few baskets of Plumeria blossoms keep floral expenses within the budget for the wedding package. With some stems in the 3 to 5 foot length, a few single Pink or Red Ginger Blossom along with several Heliconia stems in colors coordinated to the wedding keep wedding flower costs affordable while adding visual impact using natural elements. Orchids in water filled glass vases with tropical flower pedals placed around it provide low cost tropical wedding reception centerpieces. Include wedding lei for guests along with bride and groom lei exchange with a bridal bouquet or haku head lei coupled with a few tropical bouquets to complete the floral arrangements for wedding packages on Maui.
3. Create customized menus for wedding receptions matching your preferences, style, dietary requirements and within your wedding budget – Focus on the food first! By arranging the menu to be served at a catered wedding reception before most other wedding arrangements provides the most flexibility and affordable wedding budget options! Since guests will remember the food served at your wedding more than nearly any other part of your wedding, arranging the wedding reception catering menu early in the wedding planning makes sense. Though couples are welcome to utilize a full service wedding planner or coordinator, before making the final decision you should ask your chef or catering company if they provide wedding planning services or know the best Maui wedding venues to serve their catered food for the wedding reception, wedding rehearsal dinner or welcome barbecue on the beach. While not all chefs enjoy planning weddings or have experience coordinating complete wedding packages with custom menus for wedding receptions, you’ll find a few with years of experience planning weddings and catered events. Some chefs prefer to manage the timeline for the wedding couple to ensure the food is the focus of the event only behind the couple getting married, providing a precise timeline ensuring the wedding stays on schedule. We provide as much or as little help as you prefer. From arranging a complete full service catered wedding package from start to finish inclusive of wedding guest vacation rental accommodations to supplying only the catering for a wedding reception or related wedding events, we’ll help as much or as little as you’d like and provide as many ideas as you want. Though you’ll save the costs of a wedding coordinator in addition to saving time when we plan it for you, if you prefer to work with a full service wedding coordinator we are equally happy providing only the catering for wedding receptions on Maui.
4. Guest accommodations with an onsite wedding venue for the ceremony and reception – Whether you opt to stay in private vacation rentals on Maui such as the Majestic Maui private estate or the Outrigger Eldorado in Kaanapali, choosing a wedding venue where you’ll be able to utilize the same location for multiple wedding activities is one of the best options to create the most affordable Maui wedding packages instead of booking separate wedding venues for each event. Since most weddings in Hawaii include a wedding ceremony with a wedding reception and often a welcome barbecue or day after wedding brunch, unless you are getting married in a church you’ll likely want to choose a wedding location on Maui with a wedding reception venue onsite. Doing so avoids guests commuting between locations for the ceremony and wedding reception site while avoiding additional wedding site fees and wedding rental charges. The most affordable Maui wedding package savings are realized by combining a guest welcome barbecue or a post wedding brunch along with the wedding reception at the same venue. When the event locations are at the same site as the wedding with wedding reception site, catering equipment and wedding rental equipment are utilized without additional drop off, delivery and pickup fees. Tables, chairs, lighting and canopies could all be reused over a couple days to avoid paying for setup and teardown and multiple delivery charges for wedding equipment rentals.
5. Offering Action Stations at the wedding reception is another idea for affordable Maui wedding packages – In addition to a catered buffet, including an action station provides a fun opportunity for wedding guests to interact with the chefs and discuss the preparation or specify cooking preferences for bbq grilling. While our most requested action station menus for a guest welcome reception and wedding receptions is the Hawaiian barbecue menu, other popular requests for action station menus at weddings include Hawaiian Pulled Pork Sliders, a Handmade Taco action station and always popular for weddings in Hawaii is sushi action station with a sushi chef for wedding pupus (Hawaiian word for hors d’oeuvres. Adding mashed potato and baked potato action stations to a carving station menu are affordable options for wedding reception menus. With dessert action stations in demand, ideas for dessert action station menus include homemade ice cream sundaes, a chocolate fountain featuring tropical fruits or even a S’more station. Even if you don’t want them for your own wedding in Hawaii, you may still want to try this recipe for s’mores. For kids party menus, a buffet with a Macaroni and Cheese station, a Grilled Cheese action station or Grilled Burgers are all options to consider including for the most affordable wedding packages on Maui.

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