Sunday, June 29, 2008

Justin Ayers & Jill Balagna

Justin and Jill

Justin and Jill
Our next Generation flash 3d website is found here
http://www.alohaislandweddings.com/jill/justinjill.html



Justin Ayers & Jill Balagna

Bestman - Jennifer {Sister}
Maid of Honor - Blake {brother}
Justin: 816.935.XXXX and Jill: 816.522.XXXX

June 7th fly in ....
June 10th, 2008.
at/around 11:oo a.m.
For colors we like fuchsia and orange
10 guest .....
will be staying, but it will probably be the Hilton Hawaiian Village



Justin and I would love to set the date of June 10th, 2008. Since you said late morning was a good time to have it at, I believe we would like it to be at/around 11:ooa.m. We arenʼt 100% sure where we will be staying, but it will probably be the Hilton Hawaiian Village . Regarding the location of the actual ceremony we would love to have it take place on the beach in Hawaii thats is fairly private, I would like the background area to be the ocean with no hotels or people.. Excluding Justin and I there will be a total of 10 people in attendance.





A Orange Hibiscus was set in the bow of the fuscia wrapped chair



As far as the wedding details, we like the Beach Chapel Arch Package but do not need a solo musician. For colors we like fuchsia and orange (like in the Coconut Island Pictures). I like how the back of the chairs have a fuchsia bow and an orange flower.



When the wedding took place in Hawaii Jill was already 3 months pregnant so we decided to do a few photos featuring the baby in her tummy.


An email we received after they received their photos.


Aloha Paul!

Thank you so much for making Justin and Iʼs wedding PERFECT! It was simply amazing! We couldnʼt have asked for anything more. The setup was beautiful. The cake was wonderful. Please let you wife know how gorgeous the flowers and leis were. Also, tell her THANKS for making my bouquet extra special. We just received the pictures today and they had me in tears. I can not wait to show them to everyone. You and Aloha Island Weddings are simply the best!!!

If you ever need referrals feel free to give our numbers out. I would recommend you to anyone!

Thanks again for making our wedding day so great!

Mahalo,


Saturday, June 28, 2008

James and Julia Wedding



Welcome to our wedding website our new generation flash photo gallery may be found here
http://www.alohaislandweddings.com/julia/julia.html


I had a chance to snap a few photos before everyone arrived , here you can see Julia's yellow plumeria bouquet set on the umbrellas , iridescent shimmering pink sahses were used on a white light cotton fabric for the chairs, yellow and dark pink plumeria accentuated and complimanted the colors of the wedding theme.


James and Julia's gazebo design used orange pink Indian sunset, and fuscia ... fresh plumeria flowers stand of yellow and fuscia dark pink were used to high light the color.

It was a pleasure working with both James and Julia, they both were flying high with incitement on their wedding. James reminded me how much joy and fun it is to be in love his enthusiasm and love for Julia shinned through out the whole event. After their photographer went home we stayed back to take a few more photos as the sun started to go down , here is a fav shoot of mine.
PS: when they kissed they wouldn't stop they kept going and going i think this smooch lasted for about 5 minuets!!.

Date: Thursday June 19th 2008! @ 4:30 p.m. till sunset.
Place: Kailua Beach
Package:Beach Chapel
Guests: Approximately 30
Set-Up: The Fantastic Fairies Bamboo w/orange sunset sashes with silken organza rainbow cloth (Fusia, Soft Vanilla Pink, Orange & Cranberry Red)
We would like to change the chair sash color from Pink to Orange and add on a yellow plumeria flower to each chair sash.

Flower Aisle: Yellow & Pink Plumeria Flowers
Bridal Bouquet: Yellow & White Plumeria bouquet in a round style
Bridesmaids Bouquet: Pink & Orange Plumeria flowers in a long style bouquet. I also want these flowers for the bridesmaids to be smaller than my bouquet.

flying to Hawaii week and half Staying at the hotel
Hotel : Marriot in Waikiki

Koikalo'o beach location...

html photos of our wedding

Our Ceremony time 5:00pm

Reception at the Marriot HotelKuhio Beach grill /


Announcing a new flash design for James and Julia's wedding may be found here
www.alohaislandweddings.com/julia/julia.html

some of there Hawaii romantic photos are here
I have always liked this shoot with the sheer organza material used for ther wedding arch is used like angel wings , when the wind blows just right an awesome effect happens.



Jame and Julia just finished giving each other cake






The flower shower


Thursday, June 26, 2008

Nicole & Andrew Mooney

Nicole Lynn West Andrew Phillip Mooney

Wedding date June 14th, 2008 @ 4:30pm (sunset)
Wedding location Waimanalo


Guest count of the Wedding # between 20 and 30

Colors sashes for the chairs (green and blue sash)

Bridal Party

4 bridesmaids
Montana Wes
Magen Miles
Whitney Andreson
Christina Taylar

and 3 Groomsmen

2Bestman
Chris Mooney
Brad Mooney
Austin West
tea leaf leis

and one flower gir
{need a flower basket}

Color theme- multi colored
White chair coverlets-with blue and green sash, orange flower
Bamboo arch where we're going to be standing with multi-colored lace
( green, fuchsia ,yellow, blue)


Mixture of colorful flowers on aisle way
After the ceremony I would like to do the dance on the waters edge
As of right now we have just under 30 people coming for sure, both of our parents are coming (mom and dad)
Grooms Parents: Dale and Dori Mooney, Brides Parents: Richard and Sheri West
We will be having 3 (?) bridesmaids and 3 groomsmen and one flower girl
I've attached a pic of the bridal bouquet that I like,
kind of gives you an idea of the theme I'm going for

Reception at Mac 24/7
Flower by Flowerhawaii.com
photo www.lotuStar.com
Coordination by Paul of www.alohaislandweddings.com







Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Sheryl Lee and Zamil Zadiq

Wedding @ the Halekulani hotel on Oahu Waikiki


Our website may be found here http://www.alohaislandweddings.com/zamil/zamil.html

Flowers by www.flowerhawaii.com
Photography and Video www.lotuStar.com Kim, Elise, Paul and Dusty
Wedding Coordination by Paul of www.alohaislandweddings.com


Hawaii wedding minister Kimo Tayler
Reception coordination Ai at the Hau Terrace @ Hale Koa Hotel




Sheryl Lee
&
Zamil Zadiq
Wedding at the
Hale Koa Hotel

Musician/M.C. for reception to receive white/yellow plumeria boutaneer: Tibor


Photo tour photography by Paul
Sponsors receiving white/yellow plumeria boutaneers:
Lilia, Len, Lolita, Bert, Julieta, Jason Jennings, George, Amor, Mario, Rachel, Edgar, Elna, Edgar, Elna, Jess, Cathy, Craig, Ron, Arceli

www.alohaislandweddings.net/zamil/flashGallery.html

(Nazal and Fameeza - brother & sister in law of the groom, may/may not attend)

Bridal Party:

Maid of Honor (bouquet of yellow/white plumerias): Elaine
Brides maid (bouquet of yellow/white plumerias); Trisha
Best Man (yellow/white plumeria lei): Alden
2 Groomsmen (yellow/white plumeria leis): Aldrin & Ken
ring bearer (small yellow/white plumeria lei); Ian
Bible bearer(small yellow/white plumeria lei): Luke
covenant bearer (small yellow/white plumeria lei): Reagan
2nflower girls: (rainbow plumeria/white & yellow plumerias for baskets)

Bride: me/Sheryl (rainbow plumeria bouquet)

Groom: Zamil (Yello/white plumeria lei)

Parents of Bride: Shirley & Art (white and little purple leis)

Mother like to Groom: Cathy (white and little purple lei)

Grandma of Bride: Francisca (yellow/white lei)




for more of there wedding photos please visit their photo Hawaii gallery here

Monday, June 23, 2008

Paul's rant on photos

Lets Rant..............Some of my personal experience that runs through the camera lens as i take photos of forms within the holographic space in my field of vision......
1.is this pure?
2.any pretension?
3.are they comfortable being photographed
4.how can i as an observer be silent and invisible without intruding in their space.
5.patiently waiting /......

Im fascinated by the human eye...... the eyes of the human being has the ability to see 36 frames of photos per sec giving the illusion of a continual flow of life...........anything less the eye notices frozen pictures .......{ a static moment a glitch in the system matrix}
So how does one be natural and true to form when a photographer is snapping pictures and telling one what to do specifically at a wedding. As we know movement is more natural when their is no one shouting orders........ but i do find wedding couples need to have some direction during their event.
This is where the art of photography lays it canvas to the moment of movement their needs to be a subtlety and gesture a reassurance that that the subject fells free to be who they are and not told what to do..... there is no wrong photo when one is following their heart.

A photo captured 36th of a sec .......frozen split second in time where the observer {photographer} and subject of any given moment are in each other field and indefinables a sensitivity must be there.... Now when couples are really really in love i find they can easily slip into this state where nothing else round them exist only each other.
"Something in the way she moves attracts me like to other lover"
>>>>> George Harrison ........
So the natural style of the person is what truely defines beauty is unique and attractive
so why would one give that authority to a photographer or even a minister to change that treasure???
Most photographers and ministers are on a perpetual cyclic cycle repeating the same thing over and over again for each wedding, sort of like a program that gets stuck they find safety in what they already knows to work. So couples find themself stepping into this holographic world the minister and photographer creates for the couple. What i want to do it collapse that preset program and give the creative to the couple themselves.... now that is the challange a changeable fluid state of creativity ,,, its very simple almost too simple.


Here is an observation of an event captured still photos that my camera took yesterday at a wedding on the beach, the groom was trying to take off the garter when the bride fell down.







Now i wonder why the couple had so much fun in this scene , because maybe it wasnt contrived?,
it was a surprise ! even though its not what the bride wanted to do is fall down , but there was so much joy on both of their faces afterwards i had to wonder at the gift of the unexpected, a present sort of speak, this is photo i should not share but its real and thats what is important
not some preconceived photos that have worked in the past.


Paul is event coordinator for all photography and coordination for Aloha island Weddings
he is also harpist on the island of Oahu @ harpist.us
heads photography at www.lotustar.com

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Flower Art Design

a multi colored pink and rainbow casqueding tropical Hawaiian bouquet our new flower design
featured under flash site,

We are excited to announce our new flower site which may be found here at
http://www.alohaislandweddings.com/indexflowers.html
which features beautiful exotic Hawaiian flower bouquets such as plumeria {frangepanis}
bird of paradise, hibiscus, proteas orchids,roses and a variety of Exotic Hawaiian flowers.