Beach Weddings Hawaii

Couples sometimes choose additional elements for their ceremony and reception:

Butterfly / Dove Release

Plumeia Lei
The Hawaiian name for the Plumeria flower is "Melia". 
This flower is most commonly used in the Hawaiian Leis.
The flower is weaved to make a Hawaiian Lei and given to someone out of Love or Friendship. 
This is how the flower received its name "flower of love and friendship".

Sand Ceremony

Family Medallion

Honey Ceremony

Serving of Communion

Lighting of the Unity Candle

SAKE

Blessing Chant:

1 Corinthians 13:

If I have not love, then I am nothing. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful..   Love is not ill mannered, or selfish, or irritable; love makes no record of wrongs. Love rejoices not with evil but rejoices in truth.  Its' faith, hope and patience never fail.  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love is eternal....  Faith, hope and love abide, these three.  And the greatest of these is love. 

Apache Blessing:

"Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will shelter the other.  Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be the warmth to the other.  Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you.  Go now to your dwelling, to enter into the days of your life together, and may your days be good and long upon the earth. "

Vows:
Vows 

Huna Moon: Ancient Hawaiian Weddings

Music
Classical Selections

Rose Exchange

Poem
If I had to live my entire life in just one day
I would choose today
If I had one dream to fulfill
It would be this dream
If I could be with only one person
It would be you.
I would speak so only you would hear
I would laugh so only you would laugh in return
I would cry so only you would hug away the hurt.
If all my wishes were to come true
They have thiss moment
If luck ever shined in my life
It is now
If sorrow comes tomorrow
I have already loved a lifetime...today

~  Kelly Allyson Schwenk~

Chosen by Paul and Shannon

The Lord's Prayer from the New Zealand Prayer Book

Eternal spirit, Earth Maker, Pain bearer, Life giver,
Source of all that is and that shall be,
Father and Mother of us all,
Loving God, in whom is heaven:
The hallowing of your name echo throughout the universe!
The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world
Your commonwealth of peace and freedom
Sustain our hope and come on earth. 
With the bread we need for today, feed us.
In the hurts we absorb from one another, forgive us.
In time of temptation and test, strengthen us.
From trials too great to endure, spare us.
From the grip of all that is evil, free us.
For you reign in the glory of the power that is love,
Now and forever.  Amen.

Civil Ceremony
1880 Civil Ceremony

Middle-English Marriage Blessing
"May thou be bonny and buxom in bed and board"

Top 20 Reception Tunes

Koa Bowl

The Art of Marriage

Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens.  A good marriage must be created.  In the Art of Marriage: the little things are the big ones.  It is never being too old to hold hands.  It is remembering to say "I love you" at least once a day.  It is never going to sleep angry.  It is at no time taking the other for granted.  It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.  It is standing together facing the world.  It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.  It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy.  It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.  It is cultivating flexibility , patience, understanding and a sense of humor.  It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.  It is giving each other an atmosphere in which each can grow.  It is finding room for the things of the spirit.  It is a common search for the good and beautiful  It is establishing a relationship in which the independence is equal, dependence is mutual and obligation is reciprocal.  It is not only marrying the right partner,  it is being the right partner. (Anonymous)

The I Ching (c. 1000 BC)

When two people are at one in their inmost hearts
They shatter even the strength of iron or of bronze
And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts
Their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids.

 I love You

I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.

I love you, Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.

I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you
for putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can't help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.

I love you because you
Are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern
But a temple;
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not a reproach
But a song.

I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good,
And more than any fate
Could have done
To make me happy.

You have done it
Without a touch
Without a word,

Without a sign.
You have done it
By being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means,
After all.

(Roy Croft (1907 1973)

The Prophet

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness.
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though
they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together.

For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow

(Kahlil Gibran)  

Song of Solomon 8:6-7

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm;
for love is strong as death,
passion fierce as the grave.
its flashes are flashes of fire,
a raging flame.
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.

Phillipians 2:1-2,5

So if there is any encouragement in Christ,
any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit
any affection and sympathy,
complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love,
being in full accord and of one mind.
Have this mind among yourselves,
which is yours in Christ Jesus.

The Lutheran Book of Worship:  The Marriage Service

The United Church of Christ:  The Marriage Service

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