Engaging Moments

Sarah and her assistant took excellent care of us not only on our wedding day, but for the planning that leads up to it. Everything was flawless! We wouldn't have had it any other way! Thank you!!!

My friend recommended us Sarah because she was her wedding planner few years ago, and yes having Sarah as our wedding planner was the best decision we've ever made for our entire wedding!!Even though we live in Los Angeles, she made sure she answered all of our questions anytime through texts, zoom meetings, and calls. She is very experienced, responsible, and knowledgeable of what she does with great relationships with amazing vendors. I trusted her decisions and judgment completely! Our wedding in Lanikuhonua, Ko Olina turned out better than we could have hoped for; it was dreamy, lovely and amazing!! We would not have had such a perfect wedding without Sarah. I wish I could give her 1000x stars! Thank you so much Sarah, you are the best;)夫がアメリカ人という事でバイリンガルのプランナーさんを探して、友達に紹介されてサラさんを知りました。サラさんは、日本人のヘアメイクさん等とも繋がりがあるので、探している方は安心してお任せできます！初めての結婚式、ましてやアメリカでなんて、しかもコロナと不安がかなりありましたが、こまめに電話やズームで笑顔で対応してくださり、最後の方には、当日は絶対に素晴らしい式になるだろう、と確信が持てました。夢の結婚式が叶ったのは全てサラさんのお陰だと思っています！当日も最後の最後までいてくださり、本当にありがとうございました！プランナーというお仕事がサラさんの優しくて素敵な性格にぴったりすぎて、これを天職っていうんだなあと思ってしまいましたまた何かの機会でお会い出来たら嬉しいです！

Sarah Aoyama is fantastic to work with!! We were in contact with Engaging Moments fairly early in our wedding planning journey, and throughout all of our communications Sarah has been transparent, kind, and in tune with what we wanted for our wedding. When I first started talking with Sarah, I had only a dim idea of what I wanted visually, and she helped bring my ragtag Pinterest board to life. We hired Engaging Moments for florals and through our various venue changes and date changes, Sarah has been continually understanding and transparent about her availability.On the day of the wedding, she pulled off our floral vision with aplomb. I wanted something clean, bright, and classic and she delivered on all fronts. Seeing it all finally happen in real life was very moving after two years of planning. I would absolutely recommend Engaging Moments for your wedding floral needs!

We had our dream wedding last weekend at the Four Seasons Ko Olina Ocean Lawn, and we couldn't have pulled it off without Sarah and her team.Throughout all the planning, the day of, and even after, Sarah's been extremely professional, organized, and on top of everything. She got us discounts on some of the vendors and had the best recommendations. She was the perfect wedding planner for us.Sachi, whom Sarah assigned to help my wife during the wedding day, was awesome. She took care of everything that came up, so my wife was in great hands. We had some adversity come up, with the ceremony getting rained out and moved, but Sarah and her team helped make sure everything still ran smoothly.We highly recommend Engaging Moments for any wedding, whether local or people visiting for a destination wedding. She knows her stuff, the best vendors, and how to put a dream wedding together.

Sarah and her staff are AWESOME! Planning a destination wedding is hard and stressful, especially when you decide to take on planning everything yourself. I'm quite picky when it comes to decoration, flowers, table layout, so many things should be "pretty" on the day. Our wedding wouldn't be successful without Sarah. She was our day of coordinator. Sarah started working with me 4-5 weeks prior to our event, suggested vendors, drafted how our day will move along. As the big day approached, she actively communicated with all vendors, so I could focus on more personal affairs. She led a rehearsal, took us to a city hall, made whole experience smooth and enjoyable. I could 100% trust and rely on her judgement and leadership. The best part was our wedding date. She was on top of everything, organizing and helping all vendors to do their job at the right place at the right time. The entire venue - we had ceremony, cocktail party, and reception all in different places - looked more beautiful and elegant than I imagined. Sarah and her team were professional, friendly, supportive, and above all, very talented hands and eyes to make our day gorgeous! :) One more amazing thing - she was also our florist. We discussed our theme together, and all our flowers had the exact composition of various colors and mood I asked for. I heard so many compliments with regards to table center pieces, my and bridesmaids' bouquets, and the flower girl's flower crown :)

First off, let me say that I'm a guy and I didn't know anything about how weddings worked before. Since the wedding was held in Hawaii, my home, I was in charge of organizing the wedding and not my wife. But with Sarah, she helped make things a lot easier. I've attended weddings in the past but this time I was the one getting married! A few of the weddings I went to were kind of unorganized. I mean, you could just tell that things weren't going smoothly. So for my wedding, I knew I had to get a wedding planner.I found Sarah through the web and thought she was perfect for our situation. My wife can speak Japanese but her English isn't that good. And since Sarah can speak both English and Japanese fluently I figured it'd be perfect for us. Furthermore, unlike other wedding planners in Hawaii, her pricing is quite reasonable.My wife and I live in Tokyo, so communication had to be done via e-mail. Literally hundreds of e-mails were sent back and forth. Not gonna lie, things did get messy at times. But that was not Sarah's fault and it was to be expected, since we do live in different countries and couldn't meet up. However, we did get lucky because Sarah happened to visit Tokyo and we got the chance to meet her in person! Boy were things much easier to go over in person. When we were going over the DAY OF timeline, you could just tell Sarah knew what she was talking about. Her ability to schedule how things would go were impeccable.Sarah did a lot for our wedding. She contacted all our venues and helped organized it. She also made a timeline of things we needed to do on our end and by when it had to be done. Furthermore, she even helped us with our wedding favors! We ordered the favors online and had it shipped to her address and she helped put it all together. On the day of our wedding, everything went smoothly and perfectly. The only problem that I can think of that did occur was the arrival of the lion dance team. They were running late because of traffic and that would affect the schedule of the reception. Again, this was not Sarah's fault. When we were notified that the lion dance team might be late, Sarah was quick to come up with a solution. I was put to relief and knew that I could just let her take care of everything. In the end, the lion dance team just made it on time and things went on as planned.At the end of the reception, Sarah took care of cleaning up so that we could just continue on to our after-party. My wife and I were so glad that we decided to go with Sarah. Thank you so much Sarah for making our wedding our best day ever.

Japan couple had dream Hawaii beach wedding.In February 2015, Sarah Aoyama and her team helped us plan and execute a dream Hawaii wedding for a couple from Japan, our family friends. Engaging Moments provided bilingual "Day-of Coordination" services and it was much more planning than we expected. Sarah and her staff were a joy to work with, quickly available by phone and email, and were completely professional even though the budget was below $10,000! All of her recommendations from musician to minister were excellent. To keep the budget down we provided labor, venue and flowers and she worked with us to provide the rest. We recommend her without reservation! The couple was 100% thrilled with their wedding.

Sarah was our day-of coordinator for our wedding at Halekulani this past June and she did a phenomenal job! We chose her because of her abundant experience working with Halekulani and because I knew that the Hau Terrace (the location we picked within the hotel) had a bunch of restrictions which might have made putting together a wedding more difficult for someone unfamiliar with them.Sarah sent us a list of vendor options early on, but we ended up not needing them because we had contacted mosts of our own vendors by the time we contacted her. She also sent a sample timeline right a way, which was extremely helpful in showing us what a typical ceremony/reception flow might be like, and it allowed us to think about things that were important for us to keep. She kept the timeline updated throughout the course of our year of planning as we made edits along the way. She was extremely organized and quick to respond via email.In the month prior to the wedding, she took all of our vendor contracts and was the point person for all communication. This took a lot of work off our hands in confirming times and handing out tips, etc. We were coming in from Baltimore for the wedding just a couple days prior to the wedding day, and she met with us the day before our rehearsal to go over all of the fine details. She also took a bunch of items from us like our favors, things we wanted displayed, guest book..) so that she could have that set up for us. All these little things make a world of a difference! The rehearsal was organized, super easy, and short!Wedding day was spectacular. She was one of the BEST decisions we made for the day. We didn't have to worry about a thing!!! I had no idea when flowers were coming, when the video/photographers arrived, when chairs and table centerpieces were being set up, when I was supposed to go down to the venue.. I had no clue (but that is a great thing!) and all I needed to focus on was a) not tripping, and b) getting to share our love with our family and friends. She and her assistant were integral to making the day run as smoothly as it did. Sarah, we cannot thank you enough!!!! Thank you for our PERFECT day!

We were referred to Sarah by a friend of ours. From the start, Sarah at Engaging Moments was nothing but professional and prompt. We got married at the Kahala Hotel on 1/27/24 and she and Hiromi made sure everything went smoothly on wedding day. I truly consider ourselves lucky, because I heard so many stories about how you have to expect something to go wrong on your wedding day- but this turned out to be the exact opposite. Sarah took care of our "day of planning" which was actually 2 months out because we just wanted the final details taken care of as we had prebooked out the majority of our vendors (photography, DJ, lion dance, cloud effect, photobooth etc). She reached out a little prior to to our 2 month out timeline start date. Here we had meetings to check in with our DJ about music, and met a few times in person to ensure the flowers, song choices and ceremony were all in check. Just before the wedding, we met and she took our guest sign in book, table signs, seating chart, pens, etc. Bascially and literally took everything off our hands. Hiromi, her assistant helped during the big day and helped me change in our room to a shorter reception dress. Both of them deserve the biggest praise for helping our dream wedding come true. Thank you Sarah and Hiromi!!! Now, this isn't even covering the flowers portion. In addition to "Day of Planning" we also booked Engaging Moments for our arch flowers and wedding reception flowers which were alternating tall and short flower arrangements. Please see photos attached. She also did our head table flowers. It was nothing short of a fairy tale. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts! If you want an organized, sweet, super artistic florist and wedding planner - look no further.

Ours was a destination wedding with half of the guests coming from Japan and the rest from the US and other countries. We chose Sarah Aoyama as our day of wedding coordinator but she went above and beyond and was there guiding us from early in the process. One of the things I particularly wanted was someone who could work closely with the bride who was Japanese. Sarah made everything seamless between the US side and the Japanese side. There was no detail too small for her attention and she and her excellent staff and vendors ensured the day went off not just smoothly but perfectly! I highly recommend her. She is knowledgeable, professional, creative and sweet in at least two languages!