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Rachel & Nathan Manghat
5 June 2008
London, UK

"We can't thank Andrea enough for our wonderful wedding day. Immediately that we found Andrea via her website we knew she would help us to have a wonderful day. She answered emails so quickly and was full of useful information that only a local could know.

Andrea helped us to choose a wonderful place for us and our family to stay on a beautiful part of the Island and helped me to decide upon the most suitable place for our reception. This was all done via emails, by the time we finally met Andrea, two days before the wedding, we felt like we had known her for years and were surprised by how calm we felt and how much we enjoyed her help in making the final decisions regarding our ceremony.

Andrea surrounds herself with a wonderful team and we were thrilled with our photographers, JK our celebrant, the Island band, hair & makeup and cake!

When I arrived on the Island I was a little disappointed to find out that the flowers I had really hoped to have in my hair and my bouquet were out of season. However when Andrea arrived a couple of hours before the ceremony she produced two beautiful bouquets for my bridesmaid and I, with the flowers I had hoped for! She does all of these little things without any fuss.

We really had the wedding day of our dreams and would once again like to thank Andrea and her team for all of their help.

I would recommend Andrea to anybody looking to plan a wedding from overseas. We were living in New Zealand at the time and I can honestly say that with Andreas help and patience in replying to my regular emails the whole process was very stress free.


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Naomi & Ryan Souster
10 May 2008
Auckland, NZ

"Ryan and I just want to send you the biggest thank you ever!  Thanks so much for arranging the most perfect wedding in Rarotonga!  It was the most amazing day and we couldn't have done it without you.
 
You are an amazing person who is so passionate about your job.  Your communication with us was outstanding and I appreciate you answering all my questions!  From your very first email you made us feel special and that our wedding day was the most exciting day of our life.
 
You offer a very personalised service and you go out of your way to make sure everything is just perfect on the day!  The suppliers you use are amazing and absolutely the best on the island.  A huge thank you to Meegan and Tooks from the Paw Paw Patch, who put on a fantastic reception with outstanding food and service.  Everyone raved about it, especially the food!  Bianca was so friendly and did an awesome job of our hair and makeup.  The flowers and floral arch were so beautiful!  The setting on the beach at Moana Sands was amazing. Just what we wanted!  The warriors and string band were fantastic and created a great atmosphere! Hinoi our photographer was awesome thanks so much for arranging so last minute.  He is very creative and the photos are great!  Everything you arranged was just amazing.  We are not aware of even one thing that went wrong.  It was a perfect day!

Thank you so much we have so many special memories which will cherish for ever!"


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Tom Hallett & Kristin Laurens
7 May 2008
London, UK

"We're extremely grateful to Andrea for giving us such a fabulous wedding day to remember. Arriving in the Cooks, Andrea was as pleasant to deal with in-person as she was via e-mail from afar. She has a friendly and casual style, whilst being highly organised behind-the-scenes. She is spoken of highly by those she works with, and has a wealth of contacts and information at her fingertips.

We were looking for a low-stress but special day, and Andrea more than provided. We were very un-organised and un-sure of what we wanted for our day, but her recommendations regarding accommodation, restaurant for a wedding reception, wedding cake, flowers, wedding entertainment, etc. were all spot-on. She sat down with us the day after we arrived in the Cooks, and took us step-by-step through our options and helped us plan out our day in detail.

The staff she assembled for our day (celebrant, photographer, videographer, island string band, and hair-and-makeup-artist) were all professional, friendly, and unobtrusive, and they all helped give us our memorable day.

Andrea was also a calming presence at the ceremony, and worked constantly in the background to ensure our guests enjoyed the occasion as much as we did. She put together a seamless, fun, and very special day that exceeded our expectations. We can't recommend her highly enough.


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Chris & Sam Minett
19 April 2008
London, UK


"First of all we would like to give you our deepest thanks for everything you did in organising our wedding. It was such an incredible day that we and all who attended will remember forever. When we have tried to describe to friends how fantastic it was - the lovely ceremony on the beach, the warrior escort, the exquisite marquee for the reception overlooking the beach at sunset, the wonderful buffet and the amazing dance and fire display - we  give as much detail as we can and still don't do the whole day and experience you organised any justice. It was simply fantastic! Somehow, you managed to create and produce a day that was beyond anything we could have imagined, with every detail given thought. If someone had asked us to write our idea of a perfect wedding we could not have come close to dreaming up the magic that turned out to be our wedding day.

From our view it was a totally relaxed, seamless day that flowed smoothly and was perfectly timed on all fronts, whether it be the arrival of transport, beautifully presented food and drinks available constantly throughout the day, the music and entertainers performing beautifully in the background, the show and even managing to have 30 beautifully covered chairs magically appear on the beach at a moments notice.... We can only imagine the amount of organisation going on in the background, however the fact that you sorted out everything to the last detail and dealt with any issues that invariably popped up on the day completely on your own, meant that we thoroughly enjoyed the day without giving a seconds thought to the management and logistics of what was an incredible experience.


We felt relaxed about the wedding from the day we started organising it with you and always felt that you had our best interest at heart. Your smile, sense of calm and humour just added to the fun of it all. All the great people who you organised for the day, including our lovely celebrant, JK, Nick the talented videographer (the DVD of the day was excellent), Bianca the hairdresser, Hinoi the photographer (great photographs) and the entertainers were all wonderful and professional too. Special mention must also be made for the delicious food and glorious chocolate cake that was out of this world!

So from us and our family and friends who attended, we want to say Thank You Andrea for making our wedding day so incredibly special. We feel very lucky that we had someone so capable in charge of the most important day of our life and you did it with great style and professionalism. We could not have asked or hoped for more.

All the best to you and your family and we wish you all the success in the future."


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Te Puoho Katene & Beth Tupara-Katene
31 January 2008
Wellington, NZ


"From the very start of our planning for our wedding, we immediately realised the difficulties in planning a wedding overseas, at a venue you can’t visit, with details you can’t see to personally. 

But with the help of Andrea, everything worked out beautifully.

Andrea took a lot of those perceived stresses away, and even when things looked to turn pear-shaped, they always took a turn for the better; we believe that this is Andrea’s doing. One couple cannot have this much luck, wedding days aren’t this perfect by chance, so it would be remiss and even a tad insulting to attribute our good fortunes to “dumb luck”. It is said that “luck will find you, if you’re prepared and your courage holds” – Andrea provided the preparation, all we had to do was provide the courage!

So in that spirit we thank you, Andrea, for your part in our day - for it truly was perfect, we feel truly blessed, and your vast efforts came to fruition more wonderfully than we could have imagined.

Arohanui"


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