About
Built for the couples and families who actually live here.
Mabuhay Directory is the local directory for wedding vendors and military family services anchored in Jacksonville, NC — Onslow County and the Camp Lejeune corridor — and extending across coastal North Carolina from Wilmington to Emerald Isle.
Two audiences, one directory
We serve two groups whose lives often overlap on the coast: couples planning beach, barn, and waterfront weddings, and Marine Corps families navigating PCS moves, deployments, and homecomings. The same coastal NC vendors who book a Topsail Island wedding on Saturday are coordinating a Camp Lejeune homecoming on Sunday.
22 categories. 4 counties.
16 wedding/event verticals (venues, photographers, videographers, caterers, florists, DJs, planners, officiants, hair & makeup, bridal, rentals, photo booths, transportation, stationery) and 6 military family services (PCS movers, military realtors, family photography, unit coordinators, veteran-owned, welcome-home). Across Onslow, New Hanover, Carteret, and Pender counties.
Why it works
Every listing is real and sourced: The Knot, WeddingWire, Eventective, official base resources, and direct vendor signups. No scraped Google data. No fake "best of" list pretending to know your town. Veteran-owned and military-friendly tags are filterable booleans on every listing — not hidden in the small print.
Found everywhere couples look
When someone asks Google, ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity for the best photographer or DJ near Camp Lejeune, our listings are written so the answer engines can quote them directly — name, location, services, ratings, hours. You get the same exposure the big-budget national directories get, on a directory that actually knows our town.
Who runs it
Mabuhay Designs & Co LLC — a veteran-owned custom print shop in Jacksonville, NC. We've been printing welcome signs, wedding banners, unit shirts, and homecoming decor for our neighbors since 2024. We built this directory because we kept getting asked "do you know a good [photographer / caterer / DJ]?" — and we got tired of pointing people at search engines that didn't know our town.