Maui Wedding Activity

September has been a very busy Maui Wedding month for us. With close to 25 weddings, I have had a tough time keeping up with all of the coordinating, let along blogging. Two weeks ago we had seven weddings over just one weekend. Whew!

One of my upcoming grooms called and asked where his final confirmation email was, as he should have it by now. I had to admit that I had SEVEN of them sitting on my desk, waiting to go out. Yesterday we had five calls from first time couples wanting to know about our service, and two of them booked. Every time I book a wedding, I have a whole series of steps I must go through (credit card processing, confirmation email, placing their various appointments of the different vendor and license lists, etc.). So when we're this busy, it is sometimes difficult to get everything done as fast as I would like.

John is busy working on a new blog format for us. There are a lot of things we don't like about the program we're using. Like all of the errors people get when they try to sign up with our RSS feed. It just doesn't want to work.

One of the things we don't like about our blogging program is that we cannot make posts in advance; we have to do it every day. It would be so nice to sit down and write several different blog posts, and then have them automatically posted for us.

We are hoping within the next two weeks to transfer our two blogs (John has one too), to a brand new blog program that he's been working on. It will include the ability to easily put photos in our posts, which is so important to our business, as everyone wants to see images of our weddings. That helps our couples to see what we do and what their wedding will be like.

With John shooting our Maui weddings in the digital format most of the time, we have so many great photographs on our computers, and it would just make sense to put some of our favorite shots into our blog posts. I tell you about some out our couples in my blogs, but you don't get an oppportunity to see them the way this program is set up right now. So hopefully, that should all be changing soon.

We know you'll like our new blog. But please be patient with us as we have another 20 weddings scheduled for October, so John will have to push himself to get it all done with our tight schedule.

Maui Wedding Site Map

Don't forget to take a look at our Maui Wedding Site Map. We have so many articles and web pages on our website, it is difficult to promote them all effectively. This page gives a good overview of all the many different helpful Maui wedding articles that we have to offer. Be sure to take a look at our Maui Wedding Site Map.

Maui Wedding Cakes | Hawaii Wedding Cakes

Maui Wedding Cakes are in all of our larger packages, and its important that Maui wedding couples know that our cakes are second to none.

There are many different Hawaii Wedding Cake makers on Maui, but obviously, not all cakes are equal. We have our own personal favorites and this is for good reason. We've found that our couples respond better to one baker in particular. So whenever possible, this is the Maui Wedding Cakes baker that we use.

We found this baker the very first time we needed a cake for one of our first weddings. Being inexperienced at the time, I had purchased a cake at a local market. Right before the wedding, I looked into the box and realized that the cake had imploded, splitting into three pieces. With a friend, I attempted to put it back together -- but without success. It was a hopeless mess. In a panic, I asked her if she had any suggestions about what I should do.

The friend, who was a long time Maui resident, recommended that I go to a local baker who was known for his great work. I called him and said: "I have an emergency. I need a cake in 15 minutes! I don't care what flavor!" The wedding was about to begin and I had to have a cake. Any cake. Fortunately, the baker replied, "Give me 20 minutes and I can get you a cake."

Well, he did as he promised. And although I arrived at the wedding a tad late, at least I had a cake. The couple had already told me that they only wanted the cake for their pictures, and this cake looked good, even though the flavor was wrong. I was surprised when they served each other for the traditional photos, and both raved about the cake's flavor. They ended up changing their mind and taking the cake with them!

Ever since that day, I have used this same company for my Hawaii Wedding Cakes. And whenever I am unable to get his cakes, perhaps because he is on vacation, I find that my couples don't say much about the taste of their cakes. But whenever I use my preferred vendor, our wedding couples always rave about their Maui Wedding Cakes.

Relationship Advice: How to Be Romantic

Relationship Advice: "How to Be Romantic Even When You're Not the Romantic Type". That's the title of an article which my husband John Souter has written for a section of our website which we call Love Builders. You can click on the link and read the entire article for yourself.

Often men will say that they are just not the "romantic type". And this can be very frustrating for a woman, knowing that she IS the romantic type and that she would like a little more romance in their relationship. I like this article, because it is aimed at men, and gives them some suggestions about how they can be more romantic in their relationship with their woman.

Who among us has too much romance? Probably few would say that's their situation in life. That makes Love Building all the more important. We could probably all use a little more romance in our lives.

John actually wrote a book several years ago for teenagers with the simple title of "Romance". The book was published by Tyndale House Publishers (although it is now out of print). In this article he shares some of the concepts he first learned while writing that book. Now our couples can read this great new article on such an important subject. It is another great piece of . . .
Relationship Advice.

Relationship Advice

Relationship Advice is needed by most couples. My husband John has written a great article in the Love Builder's section of our website giving advice about relationships.

There are many things that a woman would like to have from her man, but in this Lover Builder article, called "Five Things Every Woman Needs From Her Man", John gives some great Relationship Advice. The material in this article is crucial for some couples.

Often, a couple doesn't know why they are suffering from certain cycles of action and reaction. The more you know about what your lover's needs are the easier it is for you to be able to give it to her (or him), and thus be able to build her (or him) up. That's what this article provides, practical suggestions for building your love life.

Here's a quote found in this Love Builder article:

"A woman needs to share a deep emotional bond with her man. Now what do I mean by that? Women love it when they see that their man is in touch with his feelings. By that they enjoy knowing that you have feelings and that you are not ashamed to share them."

"Many men have a hard time 'opening up' to women. Maybe they don't like to talk much. Or they just don't like 'touchy, feely' sorts of topics. When asked how they feel, they simply go into the 'no comment' mode. If this is your natural approach to communication, you will be missing a serious and important part of your woman's needs, because a woman needs to know your feelings. She also needs to feel that the two of you have a deep emotional connection."

I hope you'll go take a look at the article.

Wednesday's Maui Wedding

It is such a joy to perform a Maui wedding, especially like one we did earlier this week, for a couple who are so excited about each other.

The groom told John, "I'm 37 and never been married!" He couldn't wait for his bride, who was secluded, to walk onto the beach. They were full of smiles as John went through the ceremony. And the groom couldn't keep from getting moist as tears welled up during the commitment part of the ceremony.

When John got to the part where he asks the groom to say, "to be my lawfully wedded wife," he usually tells him ahead of time not to say, "to be my AWFULLY wedded wife" (or husband). The groom grinned when he came to this line, and said it correctly and I knew he was thinking about doing what John had said.

If you saw the movie, "Four Weddings and a Funeral", maybe you remember when the minister (who also plays Mr. Bean) ask the groom if he will "awfully wed" his bride. We have certainly had a number of couples make that mistake, and it is all the more permanent if a video camera is rolling. Then you have to live with the kidding you'll receive over the next thirty years.

We are very busy for the month of September with 23 Maui weddings (so far). Most of those weddings will take place during the last half of the month so we'll certainly be busy then. We enjoy staying busy and always enjoy working with our different wedding couples. This business is just so much fun.

But I must admit that there are a lot of details involved in some of our weddings, and it is always a challenge to make certain that nothing has been forgotten. We have a good system so that we can be on top of all these details. Because, after all, getting those little things right are what makes everything flow so well at the Maui wedding.

Susan

Maui Weddings Updates

Just a quick note to say, we are in the middle of our updates of our Maui Weddings links. We're adding a whole bunch of wedding related links for mainland companies onto our links page in an effort to become more of an authority site on our subject of choice: weddings. You can find these links at: Maui Me wedding links.

We've also prepared a page of some of our favorite link tags which is located at http://del.icio.us/mauime