Maui Wedding -- Secluded Bride Tradition

What are the wedding traditions that we see most? Fortunately, in the U.S., wedding ceremonies and wedding customs are among the most flexible in all the world. Whatever your weddings needs are, whatever your ideas of the perfect wedding venue, they all find a welcome home within American wedding traditions. The same is equally true here in Hawaii. Whatever you want to do or wear is acceptable. After all, who are you really trying to please with traditions? Just please yourselves.

Probably the most common American wedding tradition that we encounter, and one of those which creates more problems for a couple, is the secluded bride. It is easy for a bride to be secluded at a chapel or church wedding back home. She has a place to stay out of sight of her fiance and she can make her grand entrance without much effort.

But when your wedding takes place on a Maui beach, that can be much more difficult to achieve. If it is just the two of you, how will the bride get to the wedding site without being seen? Even if the bride takes a limo and the groom drives the couple's rental car, they still have the logistics problem of leaving the rental car at the wedding site (and having to take a cab back later to get it).

Because small wedding ceremonies here in Hawaii seldom have a rehearsal, it is not uncommon for the couple to have to decide at the last minute where they will stand at the Maui wedding site. This is important because it will certainly impact the photography and videography. But this will be difficult for the bride and groom to determine if they are separated. My husband often has to go back and forth between the bride and groom in order to ascertain just exactly how they will want to stand (because their are different choices in how it will be done).

If there is any wedding tradition that you might want to forego for your Maui wedding, our advice is, this one should be on the top of the list.