Hawaii Cruises and Maui Weddings

Last night we coordinated a Maui wedding for a couple who were on a cruise. The couple and their two young children and his parents are all on the cruise ship, Pride of America which docks in Kahului here on Maui for two days as part of its Hawaiian Islands itinerary.

Recently we've performed a number of weddings for couples who come arrive on the cruise ship. They can get their Hawaii wedding license on an earlier stop if they choose, or we now have a wedding license officiant near the port so that they can get it soon after leaving the cruise ship.

In the past we've performed a lot of weddings for couples coming in at Lahaina. In fact, you can see a picture of a couple we married at Baby Beach in Lahaina. On that page we actually were able to take a picture of their cruise ship in the background with them standing on the beach where we performed their Maui wedding ceremony. You can see it at Maui Beach Weddings.

Most couples will rent a car so they can get to the Maui wedding site location. Because they are hear such a short period of time, we cannot have their pictures for them before they leave. But we seem to be doing more and more Maui weddings for cruise ship passengers.Robert and Rosemary are from upstate New York and to say that the weather and ambiance are quite different, I'm sure, is an understatement.

The couple visited the Big Island of Hawaii on Sunday. Yesterday, they steamed into Maui early in the morning, and Robert remarked to John that as they came within sight of the incredible vista of Maui and saw the green slopes of Mount Haleakala, Maui's 10,000 foot high volcano, it hit him how awesome Hawaii really is. I imagine that Maui would be quite a site early in the morning with the waves crashing on the northern coastline.