Such a declaration may additionally apply to the Los Angeles-based couple’s resolution to mix wedding ceremony planning with a large worldwide trip with 143 of their closest family and friends, however they’re glad they did that, too. Ahead, they clarify how they rigorously plotted a blowout celebration in Bali in May 2025, full with a number of meals stalls, chandeliers, water drums, holograms of visitors, and extra.
Choose a location that excites everybody
While Ting and Ian additionally thought-about marrying someplace in Europe, they knew early on that Bali was the precise place for them. Each had traveled to the Indonesian island a number of occasions earlier than they met, and it’s the place they went on one among their first journeys as a pair. “We were both like, yeah, this is totally somewhere we could see ourselves getting married,” Ting remembers. “I tinkered with some ideas, but I didn’t really go that deep into it. We were pretty set on Bali.”
The prospect was tremendous well-received by their visitors. “There was just a lot of excitement to go to Bali. I think a lot of people have it on their bucket list,” Ian says. And though each have been born on the east coast of the U.S. (Ian close to Washington, DC, and Ting in New York), that they had spent most of their lives in California, and nearly all of their family members could be coming from the west coast—shaving off a number of hours of flight time to Asia.
Join a devoted Facebook group
Aside from sifting by means of photos on Instagram and Pinterest, and studying by means of Google evaluations of potential venues and distributors, Ting and Ian jumped into the a number of Facebook teams on the market for {couples} getting married in Bali, or newlyweds pleased to share recommendation from their experiences in the area. Real people helped minimize by means of the web noise. “Bali has a thriving wedding industry, so there was just a lot of information,” Ting explains.
Their first step was discovering a good wedding ceremony planner, and so they selected Vara Weddings, for a number of causes: They catered to worldwide {couples}, appeared adept at balancing a number of cultures, and their portfolio confirmed many enormous Indian weddings. “We know how labor-intensive Indian weddings can be, so we felt, if they can handle Indian weddings, they can definitely handle our wedding,” Ting causes. Plus, they discovered that almost all Bali occasion companies, together with Vara, provided full service planning up by means of the marriage day, that means there is likely to be a workforce of a dozen or extra planning workers on web site the day of. “That really made things run so seamlessly,” the bride says.