A Surprise Maui Wedding

Coming up soon we have another "surprise wedding." I love these. We don't get to do them often, but there's something special and romantic about a bride or a groom planning a wedding for their significant other and surprising them with it. Now I know, a lot of couples (and their parents) would be horrified about not having a say in their wedding, about just being surprised. But these are usually weddings with couples who have been together for a long time where one has been suggesting or asking the other to get married, and has met resistance.

That's why it is so much fun when the resisting half of the couple suddenly decides to tie the knot, and decides to do it as a secret.

So we have a bride to be who is coming here to Maui to get married next week, and her groom doesn't know. He keeps asking, and she's put him off saying, "maybe we could go to Vegas later." But all the time she's been putting together all of the details to do it when they arrive in Maui.

For any couple, the secret will be "out" when they arrived at their Maui wedding license. Unfortunately, you can't just walk out on the beach and tie the knot without first getting a license. So in this case, we have scheduled the wedding license as late in the day as possible, so they can go right to the Maui wedding site after they have their paperwork.

Over the years, we've had brides surprise their men and grooms surprise their women. And usually, its the half of the couple who has held out the longest, so that the other half is ecstatic at the wedding. We love that. It's just one more reason we love doing weddings in Maui.