Weddings on Big Island

Brides beware! If you try to make plans with Kevin for your wedding, please have it ALL in writing via email or text. Do NOT discuss dates over the phone. I say this because my fiancé and I were double booked by Kevin and the day before the wedding Kevin contacted us sending us scrambling. Because he thought it was the day before we had specified. Now I understand a little scheduling mishap but he wasn’t even willing to take responsibility for this scheduling error. He even had the audacity to see if I could move back my hair and makeup appointment that I had scheduled months prior. Weddings are not the time nor place to be questioning how reliable your vendors are and so for this I do not recommend Kevin’s services. We had to cancel our special day thanks to Kevin Eng’s lack of reliability.

I’ll first start to say that my Vow Renewal ceremony was beautiful, and it was everything that we wanted until the very end of the ceremony. Minister Kevin is very knowledgeable and knows his stuff. He will proudly proclaim that he has performed over 1900 ceremonies and it shows. He was very flexible with my requests, very organized and services were reasonably priced. I did not want a cookie cutter ceremony; I had some small special requests, and he accommodated every single one without complaint or a least, so it seemed at the time. We used Kevin’s vendors for music and videography and choose our own photographer. I spoke to each before the ceremony, and all were very accommodating. I highly recommend hiring Kenny the musician. He has a sweet honest and genuine soul and was one of the highlights of our day. Andrew the videographer was also professional. He streamed the service for us and provided our video in less than 2 weeks as promised. We choose Brenna Sharp (B Sharpe Images) as our photographer, and she was also a joy and provided our photos in record time and they were just what we wanted to capture our day and the beauty of the island. We cannot recommend Brenna enough. Why 3 stars? Good question. We left the ceremony on cloud nine, everything was perfect until we listened back at the live stream footage and heard Kevin making some very rude and unprofessional remarks about us. It was quite embarrassing, and the videographer also warned him that he was recording. My family and friends were outraged, and many made mention of the comments. It was very embarrassing for us, and it definitely dampened our experience. I wrote a text to Kevin later that night, apologizing for any delays that we may have caused that prompted his reaction ( i.e.: helping the videographer get the phone set-up for streaming, running back to car to get the token gift for my daughter, attending to multiple request for rings, pictures etc). Literally this may have delayed us by 7-10 mins tops. Anyway, I expressed that we (including family and friends) were deeply saddened by his unprofessional and rude remarks and demeanor captured on camera. I sent the text later that night and received nothing back from a usually prompt responding Minister Kevin. Had he responded, I would have still rated the services high, but it has been 3 weeks and he has offered no apology or explanation. We are all human and make mistakes. I write this review so that you are aware of this character trait and not fooled by the smiles and nods. Integrity is what you do when no one is watching. Our intent is not to impede his business, but to hold him accountable. I totally recommend the services rendered and vendors, just not the man rendering them.

Thank you Kevin for making our day special!! Everything from the beach to the ceremony was perfect! You made it easy ! Kevin is very friendly and helpful with anything we needed! Even taking pictures for us! Our elopement was perfect!!

We were so disappointed with Kevin's unprofessional attitude. I spoke to Kevin while looking for an officiant for my Daughter elopement more than 3 months before the weddings was supposed to take place. I did notice a haughty attitude right off the bat with a few of his comments, but figured Id give him the benefit of the doubt. There were comments where he was acting as if he were doing us a favor instead of being hired as a service. I felt a bit scoffed at for explaining the kids weren't wanting the traditional "Hawaiian" ceremony. We talked about locations and I explained we were looking for a black sand beach he said there is one but you wont have much privacy because there were tour busses stopping there often, then he suggested a different location. He never mentioned he would only travel to certain locations in Kona. Cut to the week of the wedding, we arrive on the island my daughter goes to the location Kevin suggested and it wasn't what she had pictured so she scouted a few spots other spots. she ended up liking the Black Sand Beach Kevin and I had talked about originally, its wasn't packed with tourists at all because we were there the very end of busy season so we figured perfect! My Daughter called Kevin to let him know she liked that spot better than his suggested location. He was on speaker phone so we all heard his reaction, which was to ask her " are you talking about the one 2 hours outside of Kona?" followed with him laughing. This reaction made my daughter feel small for even suggesting it for thinking a bride could pick the locating she loved. She was a bit stunned at his reaction so to clarify she asked " so your not willing to travel to that location?" His was " Uhhh NO..." with heavy sarcasm. So then he suggests another location we couldn't even locate nor did he want to help us find, and when she texted him to let him know, he responded with 1 sentence, of something brief and unhelpful to us trying to find the beach. He never followed up with a " hey were you able to find it?" nor did he even contact us at all to follow up with the ceremony plans. I would have understood a polite "I'm sorry I cant travel that far, or here is my travel fee for that drive" But to just never contact your client you had arrange to marry 3 months in advance is just so unprofessional and the opposite of Aloha. Turns out Marrying people is just a job to Kevin and not one he wants to have to go out of his way for, and we absolutely did not feel that he views marrying people as "A BLESSING". What it is about to him was, doing things his way, a quick and easy buck he doesn't want to have to work for at all. In the end we found a very sweet guy willing to travel to our chosen location and he even came from another island. It all turned out beautiful, but I didn't appreciate the added stress Kevin's selfish attitude brought. After talking to a few other officiants on the island when we were looking to replace him< it was the general consensus that he's known to being a jerk, for an Island that's know for treating everyone with Aloha you have to do more than just say you do on your website, you have to show it.

Kevin is absolutely amazing from directions to organization to making our big moment feel beyond amazing we cannot thank you enough! Kevin is a wonderful officiant and made sure everything was Perfect! Thank you so much !!!!

Kevin is a super great guy, very outgoing, and professional. Before the wedding started he briefed me and my husband separately on what was going to happen. He also was able to work with my photographer on our first look picture. Kevin also blew conch shell, a sand ceremony and gave us both beautiful white orchid leis. I would definitely recommend him if you are looking to get married on the big island. you wont regret having him.