Aloha Bridal Gallery Weddings & Events

On very short notice, Kathy Porter's Aloha Bridal was able to give us the simple, yet meaningful wedding we desired. Not only was Kathy friendly, but very professional and knowledgeable. She was very easy to work with, and on top of that, when the weather conditions weren't the greatest, Kathy was able to adjust our ceremony time. The photographer and musician she provided were terrific. We would not hesitate to recommend Kathy and her company to any bride-to-be.

Aloha Bridal Gallery did a wonderful job planning my wedding and I would highly recommend them.

What else then WOW, can we say from Kathy and her cie. We were on hawaii for a 3 week stay with our kid. Being from canada, it was hard to work all of this out but finding Kathy on the web made me realized that it could be sooo easy. She came to see us a few days before, showed us different site, was so kind and friendly. The ceremony itself was much more then we expected. The minister took us back in time and made us relive then commitment of being married. We just LOVED every part of it and ... Can't wait to do it again on 5 or 15 years from now ! THANK YOU AGAIN for everything Kathy.

We hired Aloha Bridal Gallery for our March 3 wedding at Marriott Ko Olina Beach Club. Kathy was very helpful during the upcoming months of planning. We talked over email and phone several times. When we arrived she came to our room and steamed all of the girls dresses, my dress and my husbands suit personally and wore white gloves to be sure that nothing got on our attire. Our ceremony was exactly how we planned it! Kathy is amazing and I would highly recommend her!

I can't express how lucky we are to have chosen Kathy as our wedding planner when we decided to have our ceremony in the Ko'olina area. We planned the wedding from the mainland without any prior visit, and her level of expertise and knowledge of the site and surrounding area made the planning process simple and stress-free! She was always accessible via email, phone and text, and she recommended an awesome photographer and wonderful ukulele player. When we met with her a few days before the wedding she gave us a thorough walk-through of the beach where we'd be married, and an accurate scenario of what to expect before, during and after the ceremony. She's a fantastic person to work with and we are so grateful for all her help with arranging our destination wedding!

I always had to contact Kathy numerous times before I got a reply. She was very nice and friendly but was not prepared nor organized. She ordered food at a drive through during one of our calls which I thought was really unprofessional.
In the end everything ended up fine but it had made me very anxious to see that she wasn't prepared during the rehearsal.
Rev. Hoogerwerf was also very hard to get a hold of - he was too busy to meet with us and we ended up with a style of officiant that we didn't want. He was really dry and boring - we had wanted someone more casual and funny.
No one could hear the ceremony musician - guess I'll have to see our wedding video to hear the music.

Kathy helped us plan the wedding of our dreams. The biggest benefit to using Kathy is her wedding packages, they can't be beat. She has lots of options and they are excellently priced.

Kathy was referred to me by another wedding coordinator who couldn't accommodate our 10th yr vow renewal, and I'm so glad she did. Kathy knew exactly what we wanted. Simple, painless, and beautiful. Our event was simply magical, and our family raved about how perfect the day was. Everything was just as we imagined. Kathy was such a wonderful coordinator --- responsive, prompt, super easy to get a hold of, and very flexible. Thank you, Kathy, for such an amazing experience.

One of our biggest concerns was transporting the wedding dress. We ended up putting the dress inside a carry-on and taking on the plane with us. Once there Kathy at Aloha Bridal steamed dress and it was perfect. Kathy was very friendly and helpful. Everything went perfect.

We were looking for a simple beach wedding. There were only 10 people in attendance. Aloha took care of all the details which allowed the wedding to go off without any problems. It was everything my daughter wanted, and the day was perfect.

A-mazing posted 7/24/2012

A friend of mine recommended Kathy to me after she raved about how easy breezy her wedding almost a year before ours turned out. From the beginning, Kathy was super helpful, accommodating and pleasant. She set up a limo to meet us at the airport, and met us at our hotel with our fresh lei's. She took my gown and my husbands suit the evening we got there to have them pressed and fluffed up. Considering we never met Kathy face to face until we got to Hawaii two days before our ceremony, my husband and I were very happy with the outcome. The priest, Rodney (very hard to say Hawaiin name:-) Arias was just awesome, the photographer was the easiest person to deal with and the ukelele player was just the right note. I don't think I have enough space here to share with you the amount of care and detail Kathy dedicated to our stay. FYI, we stayed at the JW Marriott Ihilani and ask Kathy about the completely fabulous gift registry we talked them into setting up for us which was BEYOND anything we could've asked for... They'll even put your engagement photo on their website where your loved ones can make your stay an unforgettable dream come true. Kathy has a great relationship with them and everything from the make up artist/hairstylist to the concierge knew who she was. We opted to splurge and have all our guest join us for a luau at Paradise Cove, YES, they also have a great relationship with Kathy. She's the total package when it comes to taking the pressure off you and just letting your stay be a once in a lifetime deal. The only thing I wish we could've secured was one of the sunset slots for the ceremony. The sunsets on that side of the island are beautiful and those time slots are incredibly popular. Our guests traveled thousands of miles to be with us, and they have yet to stop raving about how amazingly relaxed but classy everything turned out. We hope you have as beautiful a time as we did and hope to see you on one of our trips back to enjoy our new favorite vacation home.... Congratulations!

Our wedding was beautiful and perfect, thank you for everything!

Dear Kathy and Mike

My husband and I would like to thank you for your assistance in renewing our 25th wedding vows. It was such an important event and you made it so memorable for us.

The Secret Beach location was beautiful. We are very pleased with our pictures!

Mahalo!
Katia Brito
Irvine, CA

Kathy was great. She was very nice, very professional, considerate, picked a great location, Secret Beach, Kapolei, on the island of Oahu. She wasn't over priced. I would recommend Aloha Bridal to anywone who would want something small, (as my ceremony was) but just as beautiful. We had a really great experience w/them.

A few months ago, we used AlohaBridal Gallery to plan and officiate our wedding vow renewal ceremony, and it was fabulous! We were under their care for our first wedding, too, 10 years ago. We were so pleased with the wonderful job they did then, that we just had to go back to Hawaii and do it again! Everything was planned out for us, from our beautiful leis to which shoes (or not) to wear. The day before the ceremony, Kathy Porter took us to the location to make sure we loved it, which of course, we did. We got re-married around 3:30 in the afternoon, and it was lovely. Kathy took tons of pictures, and they all turned out great! The minister was wonderful and even threw in some humor. I wish I could do that day all over again!I had no stress--only to look pretty. (= I reccommend this company to everybody who wants a beautiful Hawaiian wedding, but doesn't want all the stress connected with it. The folks at Aloha Bridal Gallery will take care of EVERYTHING for you. We had a perfect day, and I will be forever grateful to them for making it that way.

If you want the perfect Hawaiian Wedding Ceremony, then request for Minister Kimo Taylor! He's AWESOME!!!

You will be pleased with the professionalism of Aloha Bridal Gallery... the service they offer is detail oriented and the coordinators will make sure everything is covered on your check list. Plus, when you first call, you will feel the friendliness in their voice, and this is the true meaning of aloha. I would highly recommend Aloha Bridal Gallery.