Maui Weddings Update

We have updated our entire Maui Weddings website so that our new blog will be found (instead of my blog here), to our new Will You Maui Me blog. Everyone of our pages on the http://maui-me.com website has been updated. These included:

Our Maui wedding packages page.
Our Maui wedding locations page.
Our Maui wedding ceremonies page.
Our Maui wedding services page.
Our Maui wedding site map page.
Our Maui wedding photography page.
Our Maui wedding planner and guarantee page.
Our article of choosing a Maui Wedding Planner.
Our Maui beach weddings page.
Our Maui Garden Wedding page.
Our Maui waterfall weddings page.
Our Maui Resort Weddings page.
Our Maui Private Wedding Sites page.
Our Maui Beach Wedding Maui Chapel Wedding Site page.
Our Maui wedding video page.
Our Maui wedding minister page for Rev. John Souter's article.
Rev. John Souter's Contemporary Maui Wedding Ceremony.
Rev. John Souter's Spiritual Maui Wedding Ceremony.
Rev. John Souter's Christian Maui Wedding Ceremony.
Our Maui Vow Renewal page.
Rev. John Souter's Spiritual Vow Renewal Ceremony
Rev. John Souter's Christian Vow Renewal Ceremony
Rev. John Souter's Contemporary Vow Renewal Ceremony
Rev. John Souter's Legacy Vow Renewal Ceremony

In addition, we've also update our daughter Rebecca Souter's website. She is the Maui Nanny, or just The Nanny Connection.

In addition, we're also working on our new Internet Home Business 4U Blog.

Will You Maui Me?

"Will You Maui Me?" which is the name of our brand new blog. After a lot of hard work, it is finally up and running! We're so excited about this because it is SO much easier to add photos to this blog then the one you're reading now.

The new blog is located at http://mauime.net

We've already put up three new blog posts for you to read, adding in some new new photos. I like the way the photos in the header rotate so that they're different each time you look at an article. If you click on the photos, it will take you to a larger version of the photo.

We expect that we'll be putting up lots of articles as we get this new blog launched. At the moment, nothing links to it from our websites except this post. So soon, John will have to go into our websites and make all of our links point over to the new blog.

You can subscribe to the feed and you can also sign up for our new mailing list, which will give you Maui Wedding Planner Tips. Although not everything on the blog is perfect, I feel it is a great start, withc a lot to come!

Hawaii Earthquake Today

At 7:07 a.m. today, we were jolted in bed by an earthquake that they're now saying it had a magnitude of 6.5 or 6.6. After it continued for several moments, I jumped up and ran to the archway door frame leading out of our bedroom and John grabbed the swaying big screen TV perched on its stand. In a few moments it stopped and we realized we had no power.

We used to live in California, so we're earthquake veterans. But this is the first quake we've ever experienced in Hawaii. This one shook us more violently, I think, than the California quakes which we experienced, which seem to have a more rolling impact. This one was located off the coast of the big island, near Kona and there were no reports of any tsunami (high wave) warnings. It was probably connected to the volcano there.

We realized that we had water and our phone system was still working. But with our power out, we new we had only about 15 to 20 minutes before our phone system battery ran out of juice and we lost telephone service. One of our first concerns was to know what happened, because we get our news from the Internet and don't have any small radios. We were also concerned because we have two weddings today.

Our Maui Me telephone rang, and John answered it. It was a first time caller from the mainland asking for some information about a possible upcoming wedding. Right as John was talking to the caller, a second aftershock hit us. He told the caller what was happening; you could clearly hear everything rattling and we later found out that the second tremor was also reputed to be over 6 in magnitude, but it didn't last long at long. Knowing the phone was going to go dead, John took the bride's name and number so that we could call back later.

I went to church, which went on as usual despite the power outage. It seemed that all of Hawaii was hit with power outages, and some injuries but so far no reported fatalities. As I write this, our power has come back. We have the Internet and the phone is working. So we're essentially back to normal.

John is about to walk out the door to go meet our first wedding couple. And I am going to follow him to meet the second.

Earthquakes are let you know WHO is in control (and it isn't us ;>). But fortunately, in Hawaii we have so few natural problems that we're glad to be out here in the Pacific away from so much of the crazy things going on in the rest of the world. If you have an upcoming wedding, don't fear, we'll still be here for you! Ready to tie the knot and get your new life started with a bang!

New Maui Weddings Blog Coming

Even though we have a wedding every night for six days right now, my husband John is still working on the new blog for our company. I'm so very exciting about how this will look. We are in development of this brand new blog, which we'll unveil, hopefully within 10 days. It will have many new features that our old blogs don't have, but in particular its ability to quickly and easily put up photographs.

I love this, because my couples often want to see a photo of this or that location, or this or that bouquet, or just more samples of John's photography. With this new blog, we'll be able to put up so many more photos. This will give our couples a much better feeling for what we do. And what it is like to be married here on Maui.

If you have tried to get an RSS feed to this blog, don't waste your time. We get constant error messages that it times out. And that's one of the reasons we're so frustrated with it. If you were actually able to get an RSS feed to this blog, you will want to get our new feed when it is available. As soon as we have the new address of this blog, we'll have links here in our old blog so that you can change over to it with us.

I've seen the prototype of this blog and it is exciting. John is even thinking of using this new format for his Maui photographer site, as he has not updated that site in about four years. He has shot so many Maui weddings since then it is a shame not to put more of his photos online. But we're so busy doing weddings that it is just hard to add pictures all the time.

So, keep tuned.