Maui Wedding Minister

This morning I received a call from a sweet bride in Canada who had lots of nice things to say about our website. She loved the fact that it is so easy to navigate and that we give so much information on our site. She read my blog and really enjoyed our personal touch. And then she read John's ceremonies and ended up teary eyed. Which of course reminded me of John's article "Why Do So Many Brides Cry During My Maui Wedding Ceremony?" on his Maui Wedding Minister page.

I told her, this is blog material. If she is already getting moist just reading John's ceremony, wait until she comes here in September for her wedding. Then she'll smell the fresh aroma of the Hawaiian wedding flowers in her bouquet and her leis, she stand on the beach at sunset, a tropical island breeze blowing in her hair, listening to those words of commitment being spoken just for the two of them . . . what could be more romantic (and emotional) than that for any couple deeply in love??

John just performed a last second wedding for a couple from Holland who were so much in love. They just kept looking at each other during the ceremony and smiling and grinning all through it. They were dressed in their bathing suits, and when they were done, they hugged and kissed and then ran into the ocean. John picked up their camcorder (which they had placed on a rock, acting like a tripod) which had filmed the ceremony and caught them going out into the water. A big wave came in and they body-surfed back into the shore.

When they signed the license, the couple told John that they had been in an accident earlier in the day. They had been side-swiped by another driver, and their car had run up the side of the hill causing it to turn over. The next thing they knew, they were upside down, hooked in only by the seatbelts! They weren't hurt and got a new rental car and still ended up making it to their wedding!

The Canadian bride who called this morning said our in-room Bride's Hair and Make-up Service really appealed to her (I hear that a lot). This is so important on a beach where the wind can pick up and blow longer hair in front of your face, making photography harder. She also expressed excitement at having Dinner on the Beach. John and I did that two years ago at our anniversary. Talk about feeling pampered. And the food was soooo good.

We love the Internet and how it helps us meet so many fun couples from all over the world. Maui just happens to be the perfect destination wedding site for so many people. As John is fond of saying to our couples, "You can get married anywhere, but you can only get Maui'd here!" That's when he draws a heart in the sand and writes "Just Maui'd" in it, along with the couples bouquet and glasses.

Just think, soon, you'll be here too! That's why we say, "Will You Maui Me (R)?"



Susan