Unveiling Paradise: Your Go-To Destination Wedding Podcast
It's happening! Smartly entertaining wedding pros Joseph Esser (professional wedding photographer) and Tessa Gomes (Hawaii-based wedding planner and coordinator), have joined forces to bring you Unveiling Paradise - your "go-to" destination wedding podcast. Planning a wedding is hard, but planning a destination wedding is even harder! Through real-life stories, interviews with industry experts and insider advice, tips and tricks, Joseph and Tessa will guide you through your wedding planning adventures. If you're a bride, groom, parent, friend, or anyone planning a wedding - destination or not - or are just looking for some "behind the veil" truths about this wildly entertaining industry, this is the podcast for you.
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It"s the last episode of Season 4, and we"re back with listener questions. Tune in to hear Joe and I share our thoughts and advice on the following:Do we need wedding insurance? What is that and are there different types?Does it make sense to do hair and makeup at the wedding venue, or a hotel?Who normally takes all of
FACT: The details of your wedding reception really can make or break your wedding. Do you have too many speeches? Are you trying too hard to play games that no one wants to play? Do you have grand ideas of smashing cake in your partner"s face?? (HINT: DO NOT SMASH THE CAKE). In this episode, Wes Nakano, owner of From A
FACT: A good wedding is actually not just one event, or even one day. A good wedding allows your guests to fully embrace their time together with you and your significant other, and what better time is there to lean into all that QT then at the rehearsal dinner? A couple things to note: A rehearsal is NOT the same as
Planning a wedding is hard, but trying to decode all of the wedding day lingo is almost possible! From BEO to scullery, plus plus to bar back, and every other acronym under the sun... we"re here to help. Together with Michele Ganiko, Associate Director of Catering at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki, we discuss and decode som
This is personally one of my favorite episodes - everything you need to know when interviewing wedding planners. When I have initial meetings with clients, they"re often in the "deer-in-headlights-too-overwhelmed-to-know-what-to-ask" stage of wedding planning. Hiring a planner can be a huge relief, and a huge first ste
It"s the never ending wedding question - live band or a DJ? In this episode, we have Brian Webb, cellist and singer extraordinaire, from LoveJack. While he"s a one-man show, his looping skills (listen to the episode to find out what looping is all about) are legendary. We go into depth with him and really make him ans