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Hmm...odds are you're probably looking for some information

…and I’m thinking that you’re probably looking for wedding information, particularly pertaining to the State of Hawaii.  Or maybe, you’re planning a vow renewal – in the State of Hawaii. 

 

I’m a genius – ain’t I?  Haha.  Either that or I have ESP – N.

 

And, my ESPN powers are telling me – it’s a surprise vow renewal – and that the Cowboys suck balls and will never win a Super Bowl.

 

Well, to say it bluntly.  The reason why I wrote this post is because I’ve been getting flooded with wedding inquiries lately, and a lot of my new potential customers can’t really figure out what type of company I am, or what they’re possibly getting into.

 

I had a potential customer tell me, “I thought you were a Hawaii wedding news website!”

 

Yeah, I can see that.  There’s a lot of articles, which I wrote, on my site.  Tons!

 

So, let me just clear the dust.

 

My name is Steve Young, and my company, Dream Weddings by Steve,  is a full-service wedding provider.  Think of me as your one-stop shop for all the ingredients to your wedding!

 

My clients dream it up, and I get it done for them for the least amount of money, not to mention, the least amount of stress.  To date, I’ve planned over 10,000 weddings, and I would say 99.9% of them were happy.  You can’t satisfy all customers.  To be honest, I try my best, and there’s that one customer every three years that can never be satisfied.  I really don’t know the total number of weddings I’ve planned after 10k, I stopped counting after reaching that milestone.  And I can just can’t count my invoice numbers because photo sessions, vow renewals, senior pictures, are all intertwined.  It’s all a big mystery.

Now, the reason why my website looks like a news website is because, number two, I love to write.   I’m a professional storyteller, which translates into “I’m a professional complainer that needs an outlet.”  But – the primary reason why I have a news-like website is that I just want to inform couples about the reality of Hawaii weddings.  And the ugly truth is that the majority of the local wedding companies are not operating with any integrity.  Consequently,  couples are spending way too much, and they are not getting the best bang for their buck.


Wedding couples, for the most part, are all first-time emotional buyers.  That’s the worst position to be in as a customer, but the best position for a business.


How bad is it?


To sum it up, quickly.  Say you want a simple romantic wedding on the beach.  Sounds easy, right?  But, your typical wedding company will book you at a busy beach, book a photographer who doesn’t know what they’re doing, buy you cheap leis, then charge you thousands.  If you’re spending thousands, you should get much better work.   Then these bad photographers upsell you on photos after your wedding, sometimes doubling your wedding budget.  Then there are hotels convincing you to have an open bar at your reception, bakeries overcharging for wedding cakes


It can get pretty ugly.

If you managed to read this far, I’m actually doing pretty darn good as a writer…haha.   

So, how the hell did I get started in this industry?

If you’re interested, here’s my story.  A long time ago, back in the late 90s, I was in my early 20s, a working screenwriter who had my hands in everything.  I promoted concerts, held a contract to produce all those cheesy in-room commercials for hotels, and was producing three television shows for Japan.  I knew nothing about the wedding industry back then, other than it was notoriously corrupt and cheesy.   So, I embarked on a mission to educate brides through an instructional VHS set.  Unfortunately, no one in the wedding industry wanted to spill all their insider secrets, for obvious reasons.  

And, that’s when I decided to take my entertainment production company and plunge it deep into the soul of the Hawaii wedding industry  – so I could write the correct instructional wedding video script.

Now, I have to admit, God has a weird way of working because after my crew and I started shooting weddings, terrorists decided to attack our country on September 11th.  All of the advertising revenue we depended on for our events and TV shows dried up, and we were stuck doing weddings to pay the bills.   Most of my staff left because they didn’t want to shoot weddings, but I really liked it.

So, I continued to photograph and video weddings, and to plan them by myself.  And guess what – I enjoy my job, working with couples, and the opportunity to plan this turning point in their lives.  It’s a lot better than working with actors who pretend to be in love.

If you are wondering, my instructional video never got produced.  Now that I think of it.  I think my website turned into that instructional video.

JUST SOME OF THE SERVICES I PROVIDE

  • Minister
  • Photography
  • Videography
  • Leis
  • Bouquets
  • Limousines/Car service
  • Entertainment
  • BBQ Catering
  • Day-Of-Coordination/Wedding Planning
  • Adventure Weddings
  • Helicopter Weddings
  • Underwater weddings
  • Sky diving weddings? I think maybe. 
  • Anything you can dream of

WHY YOU SHOULD BOOK YOUR WEDDING OR VOW RENEWAL WITH ME?

What separates me from my competition? 

There’s a lot I can say here.  I think the reason why you should choose me over my competition is that you’re more than just a client to me.  I actually care about you, your story, and most of all, getting your dream wedding planned right and on budget.  It doesn’t matter if you want a simple elopement on the beach or a helicopter wedding 1000 feet above the ocean – they all require the same amount of care.   

If you want to get married on the beach of Hawaii, let’s get you to a secluded beach so it’s romantic as heck.   If you want an 80s-themed wedding, let’s get the local Ghostbusters cosplayers to show up!  Whatever you want, let’s try to do it!

I also think I’m one of the only wedding companies where you get to work with the owner one-on-one.  And I actually work at the weddings.  I don’t stay in the office.  I get my hands dirty.  Wedding planning should be personal, especially if you’re working with a small business.  Too many wedding companies, which are small businesses like mine, treat themselves as though they are a Las Vegas hotel.   Clients are numbers, weddings are cookie cutter, and it feels as though they don’t care about quality – and the owners are AWOL at most of their weddings.

Lastly, but maybe most important for so many of my couples is that if you book with me, what you’re also getting is a planner who is also a professional photographer and videographer who actually understands storytelling, composition, and lighting.  Yes, all the photos you see on my site are taken by me.  I am training other’s, though.  If they are good enough, I’ll let you them shoot.  But as of now, they are still learning.  But if you look the quality of the photos on my site, you will get that quality.  

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I love helicopter weddings, but I hate flying in them...haha

WHERE TO START

If you’ve made it this far, you’re either interested in my services or can’t find anything good on Netflix.   There are a couple of ways to go from here.  You could just fill out the form below, start up a dialogue with me, and we can start planning your wedding. 

 

Or, you could click on the links below to find more information. 

 

Or, you could just give me a million bucks and call it a night.

 

Hope to talk to you soon!  Thanks for reading. 

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