{"id":1038,"date":"2013-08-15T13:15:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T13:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2021-10-28T00:16:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T00:16:20","slug":"waialae-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/waialae-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Location Review: Waialae Beach Park aka Kahala Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n When a bride dreams about flying across the Pacific Ocean to marry the love of her life, the last thing she dreams about is getting married in the backyard of a luxury condo, next to a sidewalk. \u00a0Pictured above: \u00a0the most popular wedding location in Oahu, Waialae Beach Park. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n According to Government statistics, Waialae Beach Park is the most popular location for beach weddings on Oahu; not to mention, the State of Hawaii.\u00a0 Out of the estimated 20,000 weddings that take place on Oahu each year, almost one-quarter of those weddings, happen at Waialae Beach Park. \u00a0 Here’s a ridiculous fact: more weddings took place on that grassy twenty-square-foot plot (pictured above), than on the island of Lanai and Molokai combined.<\/p>\n At one point, Waialae Beach Park had gotten so popular as a beach wedding location for destination brides, that it forced the State to create a beach permit law with hopes of regulating the congestion of brides there (the state did not succeed). \u00a0Till this day, wedding companies still fight for the “choice” grassy patches to marry their couples; limousines, crowd the parking<\/a> lot, and photographers blanket this area in search for that perfect shot.<\/p>\n Looking at a spreadsheet of statistics, anyone could mistakenly conclude that Waialae Beach Park, because of it’s massive popularity, must be a great wedding location. \u00a0In fact, one can conclude that it must be the best, the greatest. \u00a0After all, the majority of destination wedding companies here on Oahu, love this place….<\/p>\n So it must be great…right?<\/p>\n No. \u00a0 It’s convenient.<\/p>\n It’s convenient for the bride, but more so, very convenient for the wedding company. \u00a0Planning more than one wedding at Waialae Beach Park is logistically a lot easier than planning multiple weddings across the island in one day..<\/p>\n <\/a>If a family is watching TV in the living room of their condo, you can hear it from below.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a>The beachy area of Waialae Beach Park. \u00a0It’s not too “beachy” if you ask me.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n As you have probably have figured out by now, I am not a fan of Waialae Beach Park at all. \u00a0Here are my personal rants about this place<\/p>\n I have been part of Waialae Beach Park weddings though. \u00a0I believe a local couple wanted to get married here because this was the beach where she was proposed<\/a> to. \u00a0And there was another couple who had booked only my video services, yet utilized another company to plan their wedding for them, so I had no choice but to follow and not lead.<\/p>\n Despite my negativity towards Waialae Beach Park, it can be picturesque, especially if your photographer is talented. \u00a0Lets also remember though, that a talented photographer can make the homeless look great, and a 10×10 studio look like a castle.<\/p>\n A great wedding location is never just about the pictures. \u00a0A great wedding location, must look great not just within the viewfinder of the photographer, but in real life.<\/p>\n <\/a>Now that’s a beach. \u00a0This is obviously not Waialae Beach Park<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I have an incredible bias when it comes to choosing wedding locations since I want them to be real. \u00a0I’m not a fan of fiction when it comes weddings.<\/p>\n Choosing the right location requires a couple to escape “touristy Waikiki” and get out to either: the North, West, or East shore of Oahu. \u00a0Drives to these gems can range from 30 minutes to an one and a half hours. But the drive is worth it. \u00a0I constantly tell my couples, “You’ve planned this wedding for a year, flew across an ocean to get to copy<\/a> Hawaii, now spend an hour to drive to a great location.”<\/p>\n As a last comment, and I have to try to phrase this very gently. \u00a0Something has to be said about the majority<\/span> of wedding companies who only give you the “good angle” of Waialae Beach Park. \u00a0They elect to only show you pictures that are shot out towards the ocean, but knowingly hide the fact that behind the photographers lens, there is a three story condo. \u00a0Maybe it’s just me, but I feel they are truly not being honest with their clients. And it’s not just one wedding company that’s only showing the good angles, it’s the majority. \u00a0The majority are unfortunately engaging in unethical consumer ethics.<\/p>\n Our modus operandi as wedding planners is\u00a0to have our clients interest ahead of our own. \u00a0I’m not sure how these other wedding companies can sleep at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When a bride dreams about flying across the Pacific Ocean to marry the love of her life, the last thing she dreams about is getting married in the backyard of a luxury condo, next to a sidewalk. \u00a0Pictured above: \u00a0the most popular wedding location in Oahu, Waialae Beach Park. \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,33],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4613,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/4613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
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