Waialae Beach Park...I think I'll pass....

You know, I have to tell you something funny. I was one of the first wedding companies to start blogging on their website. Other companies started to catch on, only to improve their google rankings. And I just popped onto their websites, and let me be honest. Their blogs, look like advertisements for their services, and other companies. They truly are not blogging, they are advertising. You can tell that you're not getting the raw real deal emotion...flowing from the keyboard, when you read their blogs. They are more like...fluff advertisements that have to include certain keywords such as Hawaii Weddings, or Oahu Weddings in there....

Anyway, you'll always get the real deal with me...whether I want to talk about politics, movies, weddings stuff, or whether or not my football team..the almighty Philadelphia Eagles are going to win the superbowl this year... (which we are...)

So today, I'm still feeling not in the mood to write about love stories just yet. It's not that I don't love..love stories..it's just that I feel in the mood to write about Waialae Beach Park right now.

See, Waialae Beach Park, is one of the most popular wedding spots here on the island of Oahu next to Lanikai Beach. The reasons? Well, it's close to town so it's convenient for both the bride and groom...not to mention, the wedding coordinator. It's not very crowded, and if you're careful, you can get pretty good pictures at this place. Now let me place a quick note here, even though it's the most popular wedding location on Oahu, it's still not very busy with weddings. You may run into a couple of weddings there every now and then, but over all...the beaches are still rather empty.

So why isn't this a great location in my eyes...

The beach is very much, below average. There really isn't much of a beach here. Right behind the beach is a luxury condo, which makes you feel as though you're getting married in someones back yard. There is no homeless problem..that's a plus. But once in awhile you have the homeless straggler in the park.... But, your wedding will never be next to that homeless person, I can promise you that...no wedding cooridnator in their right mind would put your wedding next to them.

The biggest factor for me though is that, getting married at Waialae Beach Park, just doesn't feel like Hawaii. You know, I would think...why would a couple would fly thousands of miles, across an ocean, just to get married on a sub-par beach behind a hotel...by a sidewalk...that just wouldn't cut if for me...if it were my wedding. That just doesn't feel romantic...to me....

I perfer locations where the beaches are secluded, no tourist, no buildings, no matter what angle you look at. Unfortuantely, these locations are on the extreme north or west shore...they are not convenient...but well worth the drive.

Don't get me wrong. You can get great pictures at Waialae Beach Park. I have done weddings there myself after couples insisted that they go there. Of course, when they go there, they were great dissapointed that they didn't trust me. But I still told them I could get pictures.

But weddings is a lot more about just getting the right pictures..correct? It's about the over all feeling of that wedding. Who wants to just have pretty pictures, when you really know you got married behind some condo.... Why not get pretty pics, plus scenery to match it!

So my advice is this. Whomever you choose to book with, if your cooridnator tells you to get married at Waialae Beach Park, ask them if they'd be open to heading to better beach on the North or West Shore.... One that will truly feels like an island should...

Well..I'm heading out everyone. Gotta go lift some weights!!!