Unveiling Paradise: Your Go-To Destination Wedding Podcast
It's happening! Smartly entertaining wedding pros Joseph Esser (professional wedding photographer) and Tessa Gomes (Hawaii-based wedding planner and coordinator), have joined forces to bring you Unveiling Paradise - your "go-to" destination wedding podcast. Planning a wedding is hard, but planning a destination wedding is even harder! Through real-life stories, interviews with industry experts and insider advice, tips and tricks, Joseph and Tessa will guide you through your wedding planning adventures. If you're a bride, groom, parent, friend, or anyone planning a wedding - destination or not - or are just looking for some "behind the veil" truths about this wildly entertaining industry, this is the podcast for you.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 85
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Your Wedding Guest Drama... Solved!
Spoiler Alert: If you like awkward, you’re going to LOVE this episode. It’s awkward, it’s cringy, and it’s OH-SO-GOOD. Today, we’re taking the pressure off of you, and placing it onto your friends an…
Wedding Day Details You Don't Want to Forget
There are a few MUST HAVE details you don’t want to forget on your wedding day, and we’re here to help. As a professional wedding planner and photographer, we’ve been to more weddings than we can cou…
Pre-Gaming Your Wedding Hair and Makeup with CJ Siepka
Why is using cheap shampoo better than a nice, fancy shampoo before your wedding day? When is it better to forgo sunscreen rather than slathering it on? Do you want to learn some tips to manage baked…
Catering Managers vs Wedding Planners with Amanda Douglas
Who’s job is it to create your timeline? Be the point of contact for your vendors? Cut your cake or work with your guests on their food allergies? Do these jobs fall to your catering manager or weddi…
The 7 Things Your Guests Don't Care About
Weddings are A HUGE investment of time and money. We 100% agree. Our advice as a professional wedding planner and photographer? Don’t waste your time and money on the things that your guests don’t c…
What's In - and Out - For Your 2023 Wedding
We’re saying goodbye to 2022, and hello to 2023 with our predictions on what wedding trends we’ll be seeing this year. As a professional wedding planner and photographer, we’ve been to a TON of weddi…
Reception Planning with Nolan Hong
Have you ever sat through a wedding reception that felt like it was never going to end? Long, boring speeches, uncle telling inappropriate jokes, and weird pauses throughout the program can totally k…
Real Wedding Perspectives: Megan and Andrew
Do you know anyone who’s been married 3x… to the same person? We do, and we’re EXCITED to welcome them as our very first guests. Megan and Andrew Tran have a wedding videography company together (@re…
You're Engaged... Now What?
Welcome to our first episode of Season 2!
Did you know that there’s an actual “proposal season” - and it’s officially begun! From Thanksgiving through Valentines, more couples will get engaged than an…
EPISODE 15: Past Couples Share Destination Wedding Tips
Episode Summary
WE DID IT! We made it to the last episode of season 1 and we’re rounding up some great advice from former couples. As a professional photographer and wedding planner in a very popular …
EPISODE 14: The Best Locations for a Destination Wedding in the U.S.
Episode Summary
We take on our favorite US-based destination locations in this episode. Being a professional wedding planner and photographer in Hawaii - it’s assumed Hawaii will make the list. Does i…
EPISODE 13: The Ins and Outs of Wedding Photography
Episode Summary
We say it all the time - after your wedding is over, the only thing you’ll have left are your wedding photos. Wedding photography is a huge part of your wedding, so we’re THRILLED to h…
EPISODE 12: 10 Wedding Traditions to Keep or Ditch
Traditions are made to be broken… or are they? In today’s episode, we explore 10 wedding traditions that have been around for hundreds of years. Some of them are changing and adapting, and others hav…
EPISODE 11: 5 Things Wedding Planners Wish You Knew
Episode Summary
In my opinion (and I’m sure Joe’s opinion, too!), wedding planners are the glue that holds your wedding together. Tune in to this episode to learn the differences between coordinators …
EPISODE 10: Getting to Know All About Us
Exactly NO ONE asked for this, but we did it anyway! Joe and I were talking one day, and I realized that I didn’t know much about him. Where did he grow up? How does he take his coffee…
EPISODE 9: Creating the Perfect Budget for Your Wedding
Episode Summary
This is arguably one of the touchiest subjects when it comes to a wedding - what should our wedding budget be? What’s the average cost of a wedding? How much should we spend on each ve…
EPISODE 8: Should You Do A First Look On Your Wedding Day?
It’s an old tradition for a bride and groom NOT to see each other before the ceremony, but does it make sense? Looking at it from a professional photographer and wedding planner’s perspective, Joe an…
EPISODE 7: Wedding Day Weather: Preparing Your Wedding for Success
EPISODE SUMMARY:
There are so many elements of a wedding that you have total control over. Unfortunately, your wedding day weather isn’t one of them. Will it rain? Will it snow? Will it be too hot? Wi…
EPISODE 6: The Best Proposals... Ever!
Brides and grooms - don’t skip this episode! Whether you’re already engaged or waiting for your SO to pop the question, listen in to hear Joe and I talk about our favorite proposals, some of the majo…
EPISODE 5: Kid Free Weddings - Yay or Nay?
Our most controversial topic to date - should you have kids at your wedding, or should weddings be kid-free? Joe and I lay out our points for both cases, and end up with a *major* plot twist and surp…