Have known DJ James Coles for years and our foundation has worked with him (hired him) for our…read morefundraisers and outdoor events and this guy is very prompt and accommodating! We had no problem whatsoever with his playlist, he gauges the crowd and plays a great selection. He has no issues with music request either. I usually keep in touch with him via text or email and we always get a reply back. Definitely a lot of experience!

1 Star + :owner was able to offer reasonable price 1 Star +…read more:DJ accepted a playlist and showed up prior to event time 1 Star - :DJ played outdated songs during pre ceremony (not even close to the playlist which was designed to cater to our guests) and sound quality was bad (weak base and soft) 1 Star - :we provided a tent to help protect the DJ from unexpected rain even if it wasn't part of the contract. it rained. we had the DJ relocated indoor. the DJ did not communicate to us how long it will take for him to reset. by the time the DJ finished resetting, garter/bouquet toss and first dance are done and most of our guests are gone. we had to use our own speaker and our own songs to play. it was frustrating because we missed out on all of the fun dancing with our guest, they left because it was so quiet. 1 Star - : owner did not offer any sympathy towards our experience. he stated that his equipment is state of art and that we provided a playlist to be played only during the reception (it took us time to write the list off songs and none was played). Finally when I asked for a refund (asking only to charge us for DJ transportation) the owner refused, he said they're small company and cannot afford to refund instead he offered a free DJ service for future events. Now, when will we ever use that? And the sad part... WE CAN NEVER TURN BACK TIME for missed opportunity of having a fun wedding to our guests. We are VERY FRUSTRATED.

We used LA Image as our DJ for our wedding…read more Their lighting and sound system was great! They arrived promptly for setup and their services are priced very reasonably. We were contacted immediately and kept in contact from the time we inquired to the Big Day. We gave a schedule of our wedding to our two DJs which we ended up falling behind in. Luckily our sweetheart table was located right next to the DJ's table so we were able to verbally remind them when it was time to cue certain songs or make announcements. I'm not sure why we had two DJs as one seemed more than enough. Both DJs were very friendly and sweet but seemed uncomfortable with making announcements. They did not demand the attention of the guest and therefore several of our guest didn't here or understand the announcements the Dj made. Several songs weren't played precisely on cue so I felt that the DJs need to follow the schedule and have their computers ready to play. The Emcee service is okay, but in the future I would have a close friend or relative Emcee. The DJs did their best and everything turned out fine! So thank you LA Image.

I'm surprised there's not reviews of this place…read more I booked this company to do my wedding. I didn't want to go with them at first because it took forever to get a response back. However, once you get in touch with them, they are very nice and have decent communication with you. For the amount that they charge, their quality is very good. I paid less than $600 for 4 hours and got exactly what I wanted. They had all the strange music requests that I wanted. My husband also had his bachelor party there at their studio. With a lot of stress in the beginning with miscommunication and lack of contact, they were unhappy with the service leading up to the party. However, once they had the party, the staff was very helpful and they were easy to work with. They did an excellent job. As long as you're willing to stress a little over the inconsistent communication, I think the quality of their sounds sytem and their price is awesome. If I had to do it all over again, I would book them and tell myself to have a little more patience with them. ***Update***Gwen is really nice to work with, she's always nice on the phone. This company called my on my cell phone asking me to re-word my review in regards to how long it took for them to contact me.

ThanPhoto has become ScamPhoto. I do NOT recommend you hire ThanPhoto. I hired ThanPhoto to do…read morephotography and videography for my October 14, 2018 wedding in Hawaii. I still do NOT have my wedding video link or the raw files on the USB drive as promised, 2 years after my wedding. Danny, the owner of Than Photo, has now stopped replying to my texts and emails asking for an update. I have been incredibly patient, waiting months for the final version of my wedding video, but he's stopped responding completely. I have reached out 13 times in the past 35 days and he hasn't replied once. This was after handfuls of attempts to reach him in July when he finally responded with a new date that week that he'd get me the video, which never happened. I am heartbroken that we'll never have our wedding video to show our grandparents who weren't able to make it to our wedding, and our future kids. We had planned on watching our wedding video on each anniversary but we will never be able to do this. I paid for a wedding video and ThanPhoto stole my money, not delivering my video. I have begged him every couple of days this past month to reply with an update and he hasn't. I can see my messages were delivered. This is beyond disappointing.

Danny (owner of ThanPhoto) did an amazing job of capturing our special day. He got amazing shots…read moreof getting ready, the ceremony and after. Danny and his team even got me sneak peak photos one a day after the wedding- what an amazing treat! I love all the photos we got from our special day and am so thankful we hired Danny (and his team) to be there to shoot them for us.

DJ Bennie James is the BEST DJ in Hawaii hands down! He has a unique ability to gage his audience…read moreand then provide the music to get the party started and heated up all night long! His professionalism and extreme talents make him a MUST have for your next event!!!!!!!!!!!! Patti Soares

Bennie DJ'ed my recent wedding at Pig and the Lady. He was definitely worth every penny!…read more I got many comments from guests on what a great DJ he was. Everyone had so much fun dancing to his tunes, which were a perfect mix of soul, reggae, Latin and pop from various decades. He excels at reading a crowd and isn't afraid to bail on songs that turn out less popular. He took both my pre-selected requests (and "do not play" list) and the requests of other guests, even downloading a reggaeton song to his phone during the party. Also, he and his assistant Faye are a breeze to work with. They respond very quickly to emails and they met with us beforehand to make sure everything was good to go. I'd definitely recommend him for your wedding or any other event. Thanks Bennie and Faye!

Harold and Aaron at Next Events made my outdoor wedding at a private estate a breeze, coordinating…read moreall the party rentals and catering (they partner with Phuket Thai, who we love). During the planning they were super laid back and low key, but when it came to they day of the event they and their crew kicked it into high gear and really got everything done well. Overall everything went smoothly and I would recommend them for your "Next Event" in Hawaii!

Jill was awesome to work with! Her rates were so much better than ones we found here on island, and…read morefor all day services I may add. She is so fun and easy to work with. She is very energetic and it rubs off on the couple when taking pics. At first I was worried that she was based out of Washington that it would ne a problem, but she comes back and forth to Hawaii so much all my worries went away. She has a very artistic eye for some awesome photos and has a direct chat on her website so you can contact her anytime! We loved working with her and love our pics that we have taken with her and her assistant Noelle, they made our big day fun and memorable.

Jill is an awesome partner to work with! I had the opportunity of working with her on a wedding…read more She's very passionate about her job and is committed to giving her clients the absolute best. Highly recommended for great work and lots of laughs in between!​

Diego is TRULY sensational -- we chatted with a LOT of DJ's in prep for our wedding. We had a very…read morespecific crowd that required a LOT of different genres (I suppose you could say this is true of many weddings ha!) but it required a Hora and Enrique and Folk and Jazz and current day bops (oh god, yes -- I'm a millenial) -- it was A LOT and Diego made it feel so so simple and easy. He truly took care of every single one of our 223 (!!!!) guests. We danced ALL. NIGHT. LONG. and got so so many compliments on the whole vibe and FUN of the wedding (which was really all I wanted everyone to feel). Couldn't feel more gratitude to you Diego! Thank you, thank you, thank you. A&A

Diego was the perfect fit for our wedding. I was picky on…read morefinding a dj that didn't feel 'tacky' and overbearing. We didn't have to explain much about the vibe we wanted for cocktail hour and he delivered. And then the whole night was amazing - never a dull moment. everyone ended up on the dance floor all night. We felt more than comfortable with him- and would work with him again in a heartbeat- a pleasure to work with.

Pains me to do this because the owner seems like a very nice person. My fiancé and I found her…read morecompany through google. We were looking for companies that were able to offer small wedding ceremony packages. We also wanted to find someone that can help us arrange a small casual reception afterwards, which many companies who specialize in wedding ceremony packages didn't do. So when we found this company, we decided to contact them and see what they can offer. We were initially very excited to learn that this company was able to help us with the reception portion. The owner also seemed very enthusiastic and experienced in the industry. Even though we were envisioning a much smaller and less expensive wedding, the owner managed to convince us to have a bigger and more lavish wedding than we anticipated, because she convinced us that she could "give us our dream wedding" within our limited budget. Slightly skeptical, we asked her if she could give us a predicted budget breakdown to see how she will pull off our wedding within our budget. However, our first mistake was to sign a contract with her before she gave us this budget prediction, because she kept avoiding and delaying to give us this budget breakdown. This went on for months and she kept giving us excuses and avoiding the budget topic whenever we bring it up. If a planner can't even get it together long enough to put together a quote, how is she expected to plan a wedding? Another thing we found odd was that she asked us to give ALL of our wedding money to her so that she can "take care of the payments from her end". Not once have I met a planner that does this. Our second mistake was to follow her venue recommendation, even though we know that this venue is slightly more on the expensive side, not realizing that this will blow our budget. After the venue was booked, that's when everything went downhill, as it turns out that we had to increase our overall wedding budget by 20+% due to many things we weren't made aware of. She also told us all of the sudden that her service fees have not been included in our budget. Shocked and anxious, we asked her how much her service is, because we didn't see any specific number for her fees on her contract. And of course, like the budget, she avoided answering our question about her service fees. By not being upfront about their service fees just shows how unethical their business practice is. Nonetheless, communication with her was a nightmare. As a bride, of course I would have a myriad of questions for her, especially about cost, vendors, and scheduling vendor meetings. 9/10 times none of my emails or texts were answered for weeks at a time. And whenever she reappears again out of the blue, she would never answer any of my questions. Instead she would have some ridiculous excuse on why she ghosted on us and say "I have a lot of information for you. Let's meet up in person next week to discuss". But why are you asking a meeting in person during a pandemic? She would disappear for such long periods of time for various excuses that we had to take initiative and do the majority of the planning process ourselves, which defeats the purpose of having a wedding coordinator in the first place. If you're too busy, at least have the courtesy to let us know rather than ghosting your client. So with all of the drama and frustration that we had to go through in the 4 months working with her, we decided to terminate our contract with her. Take note that we have sent her multiple emails explaining our frustrations with her over the course of two months. But of course, she didn't answer or respond to any of my emails or address any of my concerns or frustrations. When we decided to fire her, we sent her a very long email detailing everything that was frustrating us, from the budget management to her poor communication. And her response? She didn't even apologize or acknowledge any of her mistakes and said something like "Since your wedding is still really far away, I need to work on weddings that would bring me income right now. I have worked very hard on your wedding for the short amount of time we've been working together...". Take note that at this point the only thing she has done for us is booking the venue. And how rude can you be by telling us we're just another unimportant source of income? I'm writing this review on Yelp because she only has very biased reviews on her website and nowhere else. Skip the headache and go with other companies if you don't want to go through the same thing that I did. TL;DR: claims she's experienced and organized but the complete opposite, VERY slow to no communication, mysterious service fee (read: shady business practices), didn't honor our budget, won't apologize or acknowledge mistakes, an expert at excuses & avoiding our questions

Wanted to let Kelli know that she did an awesome job putting out wedding together. She took care of…read moreeverything from helping me with my dress, organizing, decorating, ordering, picking up, caterers and photographer. It was an amazing and beautiful wedding on the beach with an awesome reception to follow. Food was delicious. Due to Covid, it was just immediate family and every comment was about how amazingly beautiful it was. Kelli was very helpful, patient and full of wonderful ideas. We're glad we found her and Pastor Mark. Would definitely recommend Tide the Knot.