Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea

Despite the pandemic and trying to plan a wedding thousands of miles away in New York, everything on our big day exceeded our expectations — thanks to Maria Hirt at Four Seasons Wailea. The idea of planning a Hawaiian wedding from the mainland is daunting. Chances are you’re a busy professional with limited time, yet you want absolute confidence that your wedding day will go smoothly. Working with Maria Hirt at FS Wailea gave us that kind of assurance. She is friendly, thorough, responsive, and the entire staff is just exceptional! We chose to get married on Plumeria Point and it was stunning. If you are considering a wedding in Maui, this is the place to do it. Contact Maria and you’ll be in good hands. Your wedding will be beautiful and your guests (we had about 20) will be delighted. The only problem is that you will not want to leave this beautiful resort!

Stephanie L. was the Manager that helped me plan and execute our wedding. From beginning to end, she was kind, professional, knowledgable, and so patient with me. Went over all the options with me and respected that I wanted to stay on my budget. Stephanie also coordinated everything on the day of the wedding so I didn't have to worry! The vendors that were recommended were amazing, you're only going to get the best at the Four Seasons. Everyone from our officiant, instrumentalists, photographer, people working during cocktail hour went above and beyond to make our day special. They only do one wedding a day so you don't have to worry about taking down your decorations for the bride after you! We stayed here for a few days before and after the wedding, and it was totally worth it.

My husband and I got married at Four Seasons Maui on 4/11/19 and we could not be more thrilled with how our wedding turned out! While I was in Maui in March 2018, I looked at a few different venues on Maui and FS immediately stood out. The FS is a cut above the rest and the most beautiful resort I’ve ever seen. I met with one of the wedding planners to tour different ceremony and reception sites—every space she showed me was stunning. Many of the other places I visited didn’t hold a candle to FS. Lots of resorts book multiple weddings in the same day and the event spaces are ugly/very public. At FS, they only do one wedding a day so they can focus all of their attention on you. While no resort wedding could ever be “private”, the spaces FS provided were intimate and significantly more private. Another plus to FS is that it had direct beach access. We could easily walk down to the beach for pictures and there weren’t that many people there. Once we signed our paperwork and booked FS as our venue in May 2018, we were assigned a wedding planner, Samantha. Samantha was instrumental in coordinating our other vendors--we had a dream team! Planning a destination wedding is a lot of work, but Samantha was always very patient in answering my questions and offered great suggestions. I’m very much a type-A person—I love to plan and organize everything and I ask a TON of questions—and Samantha took it all in stride. Samantha helped me to make my vision for the wedding a reality and I will forever be grateful to her. When it came time to walk down the aisle, I was absolutely floored with how stunning the ceremony site was. It was beautiful by itself, but Samantha transformed it. The florals were gorgeous and the setup was just lovely. I felt this way again when we made it down to the reception dinner. The décor and design was executed flawlessly. When my husband and I made it back to our (upgraded!) room, there was a large bouquet of flowers, chocolate covered strawberries, two bottles of champagne, and a fruit/cheese platter. I couldn’t believe how thoughtful it was…we were treated like royalty. They even delivered all of our wedding flowers to the room—it smelled amazing in there! Samantha and FS went above and beyond to give us the wedding of our dreams. Wedding day was no joke one of the most relaxing days of my life. Because it was planned so well, I basically just showed up and enjoyed myself. Our wedding was pure magic and we will always look back on that day with great fondness and love. We are FS customers for life! Advice to other brides who are planning destination weddings: everything really does come together towards the end of the planning process. The bulk of the planning happened in the 2-3 months leading up to the big day. Vendors: Dress: La Soie Bridal, Pasadena Hair & Makeup: Meili Autumn Beauty Photography: Anna Kim Photography Videography: HiFocused Videography Ceremony Musician: Maui Harper – Irene Ryding Florist: Country Bouquets Maui Officiant: Peter Dagupion

BAIT AND SWITCH! I will preface this post by letting you know that we did not have our Wedding at this venue. We were turned off after a very stressful ordeal working with the event staff. We are very upset with the way we were treated and dragged along by the event staff at the Four Seasons Maui. After our sight visit which went GREAT! My Fiance, was head over heals for the property. It is beautiful. We chose the Four Seasons as our Wedding Venue and returned to Chicago. After a MONTH of trying to get in touch and going back and fourth with them between "island time" and the coordinator, Stephanie's, travel schedule. We learned that were were "misinformed" almost everything were told on the site visit. They now wanted to charge us TWICE for the Ocean Lawn site (once for the ceremony and once for the reception) Yes, you read it right! TWO site fees for the same location, when were were specifically told on our site visit, that there would be no additional fee. They did not honor what they told us or the many other things she "misinformed" us of. They even tried to pass blame at an outside wedding coordinator for the misinformation even though we all heard it come directly from Stephanie as my Fiance took notes. We even had to point out the fact that they UNDER priced our alcohol package which I am sure they would have eventually added to the invoice. Very unprofessional, VERY upsetting! When I called to discuss this, Thursday, they again asked if Stephanie could call me back on Monday. I told them absolutely not, we can not let this go another 5 DAYS! After requesting Stephanie to honor what was pitched to us at our site visit, she declined, and we ask to speak to her supervisor, who called us the next day. After talking with the Director of Events, Raina, she backtracked EVEN MORE information that was told to us by Stephanie, whom told us that we had to choose one of the packages that they offer, which meant it would not make sense to use our coordinator. This was also found to be untrue, which we just found out today (1 month later). After expressing our deepest frustration to Raina, although she remained professional, all she had to say is "Sorry, that the Four Seasons is not a fit for us." Well NO, not when we were blatantly lied to and mislead by your staff. Then tried to be taken advantage of after we have our mind set on your location, after considering everything we were told by our site visits. She did admit to their mistake and oversight of the incorrect pricing of the bar package but the rest must have been our imagination... I will find somewhere else to spend $75,000 and bring upwards of 100 guests.