Joanne has helped thousands of happy visitors plan great vacations on exotic Pacific islands – including Australia, New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and many more for the over 20 years as a destination specialist. An experienced global traveler she enjoys sharing her knowledge of those special places that make a journey extraordinary. Each vacation she creates is unique and customized to your needs and desires. A detail oriented person; she will make all your holiday arrangements efficiently and clearly insuring a stress free and joyous trip. Her favorite adventures are to Fiji, Tahiti and Hawaii. When not traveling, she enjoys exploring Maui’s rare tropical beauty and spending time with friends and family on our beaches.
Josephine Thurman · Office Administrator
Born and raised on Maui, Jo is a jack-of-all-trades assisting our wedding coordinators and backing up our wedding consultant sales staff. A graduate of the International Air Academy, where she prepared for a travel industry career, Jo moved from her island home to Los Angeles, where she worked at L.A. International Airport as a ticket agent for several major airlines. While with the airlines, she traveled extensively, visiting Paris, Australia, Jamaica and many U. S. vacation areas. After marrying another airline employee in L.A., Jo returned home to Maui so she could raise her children near parents and other family members. Before joining APDW, Jo worked front desks at the five star rated Four Seasons and Fairmont Kealani hotels. Now the mother of two young daughters, Jo enjoys spending her time off with her family and going to the beach.
Gordon Mason Nash · Owner
Gordon is an accomplished, internationally recognized wedding photographer. He has extensive photo journalistic expertise and formal portrait photography training. Gordon established his first photography studio over 20 years ago and has been a success ever since. Gordon with his humor and warm heart has a special knack for making couples feel at ease while shooting. Gordon is part owner and head photographer of A Paradise Dream Wedding. Gordon and his associates are members of the Professional Photographers of America. Visit Gordon's photography web site at: gordonnash.com
In 2006, Gordon was selected as the first wedding photographer ever to appear in a Nikon Camera Catalog. He is featured in the brochure with 8 of his photographs along side Nikon's new line up of professional digital cameras.
Keiko Shiba Nash · Webmaster/Owner
Keiko is co-owner of the company and our webmaster. She is an excellent photographer and accompanies Gordon on most of his wedding shoots. Keiko has studied under Gordon Nash's guide as a second photographer specializing in photojournalism. Keiko photography style resembles world renown photographer Dennis Reggie. Instead of directing her wedding couples she blends into the background capturing fleeting moments of your once in a life time event. The extraordinary and discerning work of Keiko Nash reflects an elegance rarely seen in the west and is beautiful to behold.
She was born and raised in Tokyo and majored in Business with a minor in Art History at Aoyama Gakuin University. She has the rare combined qualities of an artist, planner, gourmet chef and is a highly reliable and ethical professional. She is the art director of all our web sites and her discerning eye for design has brought us tremendous success. She also has taken on many highly demanding wedding reception projects requiring complex planning, budgeting and coordination with very successful results.
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