Hawaii Weddings by Your Kauai Wedding
Kauai Wedding Ministers



Our family of Ministers and Reverends were selected based upon their dedication to providing the mostheart-felt ceremonies. We have receive nothing
but praise for each and every ceremony we have planned!

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Your Kauai Wedding Planners and Coordinators

Specialty Hawaiian Ceremony "E Kala Mai Ritual"



In Hawaii, whenever you made a big spiritual passage in life, you were called to hiuwai, a ritual cleansing or bath of your spirit
in a sacred body of water. We use ocean water now as it has always been used for purification and a bringing into balance,
also because your lives are seen as linked with and influenced by the tides and sea.
First your Minister will pour the water from the shell into and onto your own hands individually for you to wash.
This represents a complete and utter forgiveness first of yourselves. Recognizing that all you have gone and
grown through up to this moment has been necessary for you to stand here with the depth, capacity, abilities and compassion
to love one another as deeply as you do...

Next your Minister will pour the water onto your hands so that you each in turn can wash each other's hands as a promise
that throughout your long lives and marriage you will continue to find it in your hearts to forgive one
another no matter what arises. Recognizing that forgiveness is a vital conduit for your love to flow through. Now you dry each
other's hands with the tenderness you will show each other throughout your long lives
together. Feel the freshness of the cleansing and we are ready to bless the wedding rings.

Hawaiian Water Sharing Ritual

The water sharing ritual is performed following the exchange of wedding vows and rings. It symbolizes the renewed birth of
the couple as unified in love. The sharing represents the continual nurturing, support, and loving care you affirm at this time
as partners for life.The coconut represented the tree of life for island people, the one
plant that provided food, shelter, clothing, building and weaving material, and the purest of water. Two coconut trees were
planted for every child that was born to ensure they would always have enough. So it
is that your love and union is what sustains you with all that you truly need in life.

Your Minister will break open the coconut, like the new egg opening, as your joyous life together is launched. The groom first
takes the opened nut and pours some on the ground for both of your ancestors, all teachers and guides who have brought you
to this moment, and for all those loved ones not here in person yet truly with us in spirit. He then gives some for the bride to drink
and be nourished. She then takes the bowl and gives
some to her husband to drink. She completes the ritual by pouring the rest on the ground for all that will come to follow and
grow from this union, children, ideas, all creativity born from this spark. This sets
up the lineage of honoring the past, standing fully in the present, and being farsighted with your horizons.

Ring Blessing Ritual

As the day of the wedding approaches and everyone arrives on island, there is a tangible increase in the swirl of excitement
and natural nervousness. The ring blessing ritual is designed to center the energy and
outpouring of emotion. This is a beautiful experience that brings the families together along with everyone in the wedding party.
It's intention is to unify your core group and to spiritually prepare
everyone for the great passage you will be making at the wedding. It gets everyone to pause from the swirl and intensified
spinning before the wedding and to remember what this is all about from a heartfelt and
appreciative perspective. In the ritual everyone there gets a chance to speak from their hearts to you both, to bless your
union and express what you mean to them. It also gives you the chance to thank these
beings that have guided your lives and shared unconditional love with you. After everyone has had a chance to bless your
rings, The two of you do an "e kala mai" ritual of first washing your own hands with ocean
water to symbolize a complete forgiveness of yourselves and acknowledgement that all you have grown through was necessary
to bring you to this passage with the depth, compassion and abilities you bring.
Then you wash one another's hands to promise that you will always find forgiveness in your hearts for each other. Then you
take one another's hands and in the midst of this circle of closest family and friends
speak from your hearts to your beloved anything you wish to express in preparation for the day of union.

This ceremony has proved to be an amazing vehicle for centering the focus and bringing your core group together in a deeply moving way.

Closing Hawaiian Blessing

May your union be realized
As the sharing of your wholeness.
A place where your childlike spirits are renewed,
Where your faith in love is restored,
Where your link with the greatness of Spirit
Is remembered.
Let it be the haven of peace,
The safe harbor for trust,
The wellspring of joy,
The foundation of all you hold as true.

Ho'okahi naau, Ho'okahi mana o'lana,
Ho'okahi malamalama, Ho'okahi 'oiai'o,
Ho'okahi ola, Ho'okahi 'oli 'oli,
E kahe pu ana, e ulu pu ana,
Mai ke kumu ho'okahi mai.

One heart, One hope,
One light, One truth,
One life, One joy,
Flowing together, growing together,
From a single source.

Fill your hearts with beauty, and beauty will come to you.
Fill your hearts with love, and love surrounds you.
Seek always the truth and it shall be yours,
For as you believe are all things manifest unto you.



Specialty Hawaiian Ceremony "Hookupu Ceremony"

We start off with the blowing of the conch shell to call the attention of all the sprits and the ancestors of a special event that is happening.

A Hawaiian Chant follows to open the heavens to your special day.

Next a Hawaiian-English prayer is used to start the actual ceremony.

We will then follow with the lei ceremony which will have the both of you give the breath of life to your future partner by breathing on the
lei three times and placing the lei on one another.

Your Minister will then bless the rings in English and follow with the wedding vows.

I commit to pledge my heart, my soul, and my trust to you. I accept you as my partner, my lover, my trusted friend, and
my confidant in our good and bad times in our life. I entrust you with my delicate and fragile love that you will hold with the utmost
respect and honor. I thank you for accepting me as I am (the ring is placed on the finger and you will be asked if you would like to read a poem or any
special words to each other ).

We will move on to the forgiveness ceremony which includes a Mantra with tuning forks that relinquishes all past mishaps and history then releases
this to the universe so Love can restart the cycle for a new life.

The finale is the Hookupu Ceremony in which the family and guests gets to participate. They will  give their breath and their blessings for the happy couple by providing

the couple with flowers and ti leaves wrapped together. The couple will be able to take this to a special spot on Kauai in order to thank the Island for having them
blessed and remember their commitment to each other. The ceremony concludes with a prayer and closes with a kiss and the sound of the conch shell in the background.