Hawaii wedding - what you should know about getting married in Hawaii

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As we all know Hawaii is not only the ultimate vacation destination but also the most favorite spot to get married. Keoki and I belong to the lucky people who got married on one of the most beautiful Hawaiian beaches surrounded by loving family and friends. Our friend Sarah was leading the wedding walk to the beach playing beautiful tunes on her flute. Sunset was the magical time to exchange our wedding vows and receive the warm wishes from family and friends. The memory of these special moments will always be with us. And if we should forget, there is our Hawaiian wedding video to remind us of our unconditional love.

Here are some basic facts which you should know when getting married in Hawaii. Hawaii has no residency requirements or waiting period. If you are 19 years of age or younger, please bring your birth certificate (American citizens). If this is not your first marriage, no proof of prior divorce is required; however, you will be asked statistical information regarding the divorce. When you request a license information packet from Hawaii, you will receive a form, which you should complete at home. Bring the form along with you, in case your luggage is delayed or misplaced. A marriage license packet includes a License Application Form, and can be obtained by writing: State of Hawaii Department of Health, Marriage License Section, P.O. Box 3378, Honolulu, Hawaii 96801 or by calling (808) 586-4544 or by visiting their website at www.hawaii.gov/doh. Read more on getting married in Hawaii.

When getting married in Hawaii, you have lots of alternatives to choose from for the location for your Hawaii wedding apart from the traditional Hawaii beach wedding…like a small Hawaiian chapel, a beautiful tropical garden, by a hidden waterfall or at any of the Hawaii 5-star beach resorts. It all depends on your budget and expectations. First of all, you have to choose which Hawaiian Island you want to get married at and spend your Hawaiian honeymoon. Remember the weather is mostly nice and sunny in Hawaii and if you are on a budget, the spring months May and June are perfect for catching specials on Air Fares to Hawaii, car rentals and Hawaii vacation accommodations.

Here is a collection of a few Hawaiian wedding links when planning getting married in Hawaii:

Romantic Beach Weddings on the Big Island's Kohala Coast
Romantic wedding ceremonies on the Big Island of Hawaii are what dreams are made of. The Hawaiian Kona Kohala Coast is ideal for your sunset beach ceremony, whether it is a wedding, a renewal of vows ceremony, a commitment ceremony, or a partners for life ceremony.

Aloha From Hawaii Weddings Professional Hawaii wedding planner/coordinator with full Hawaii wedding packages to simple customized packages including photography, videography, floral, limo and many other services provided.

A Fairy Tale Wedding – All you have to do is show up.’ You tell them what you like – location, music, ceremony style – and they will put it together for you so you can enjoy a stress free Big Island wedding and celebration of love in Hawaii.

Let Maui wedding coordinators plan your wedding in Hawaii. It's the attention to the little things that make a perfect Maui wedding or vow renewal ceremony. And this is what Maui's Wedding Coordinators and consultants live for. They make the lists, and the calls, and the plans. This list of Maui Wedding Association's member coordinators will help you to prepare your Maui wedding.

In the Spirit of Aloha, Rainbow Weddings of Kauai welcomes the opportunity to serve and celebrate with you in this most beautiful, romantic, and sacred place, a jewel in the Pacific by the name of Kauai. Make your Hawaiian wedding a wonderful and exotic experience that you will never forget. Have a beautiful KauaiWedding.

In the spirit of aloha, Pua Kohala Coast Vacation Guide

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Hawaii Flights Spring Break Specials

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When is the best time for your Hawaii vacation?

Guess what it's now when spring has started on the Mainland but the air can be still crisp and cold. Are you longing for those balmy days and nights, swimming in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean and lying on the warm white sand beaches? Now it's the time for your best Hawaii Vacation with empty beaches and restaurants, great deals on air fares to Hawaii and Hawaiian car rentals.

Best of all, hotels on all Hawaiian islands offer you nice spring specials for April - June. If you prefer the privacy and comfort of your own Hawaii vacation home, this is the time for great Hawaiian Vacation Rental Specials. This is the way to go...check for air fare and Hawaii car rental specials, put your reservation in and then find the perfect vacation home in Hawaii for your best Hawaii Vacation.

If you want to do some island hopping, Hawaiian island hopping that is, on your Hawaii vacation, Interisland flights are at a low: $29 One-way Interisland. Nonstop Fares: Honolulu to Hilo, Kahului, Kona or Lihue

Book: Now – Apr. 28, 2007 Travel: Now – May 31, 2007. Read more on Interisland Specials by Hawaiian Air.

Nonstop Roundtrip Fares Between Honolulu and Mainland U.S. Read more on Spring Special Air Fares by Hawaiian Airlines from the Mainland to Hawaii.

Aloha Airlines offers Last Minute Air Fares at for Spring from Orange County to Maui, Honolulu and Kona. Also great low air fare specials from Scramento to Honolulu and Maui or Oakland to Honolulu and Kona. Check those Aloha Airline Specials now.

Have your best Hawaii vacation. Now! Aloha, Pua Kohala Coast Vacation Guide

Aloha to Hawaii Vacation Rental owners. If you don't accept credit cards for your vacation rental bookings yet, here is one of the most affordable ways to do it. Check it out today.

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Your Best Hawaii Vacation?

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Aloha everybody,
Have you ever wondered which one was your best Hawaii vacation or if you never had a vacation in Hawaii, what your best Hawaii vacation should to be like?! We would love to hear from our blog visitors what their idea of a best Hawaii vacation is. Send us an email with your Hawaii experience or vacation thoughts. We will post your Best Hawaii Vacation ideas as soon as we have collected a few ideas for posting and make those available for our blog visitors who plan a Hawaii vacation.

Most of all, we are not looking for the best writer. We are looking for your personal Hawaii vacation experience or dreams. Here are a few helpers to make things easier on you and get you going:

Which Hawaiian Island - Oahu, Kauai, Maui, Big Island, Molokai - did you visit or would you want to go to and why?
What special Hawaiian activities have you done or would you want to do? Scuba diving, whale watching, sunset cruise, snorkeling, surfing, kayaking?

Did you stay at a Hawaiian vacation rental or Hawaii hotel or resort or where do you want to stay on your vacation in Hawaii hotel or private Hawaiian vacation home?

What did you do for your ultimate relaxation or would you like to do? Getting a Hawaiian Lomi Lomi massage, getting a body wrap at a spa, attend a Hawaiian luau, listen to Hawaiian music or watching the hula dancers?

What was the most spectacular thing during your Hawaii vacation or is planned to be? Helicopter ride, stargazing, watch the lava flow of a live volcano, watch the Hawaii Ironman Triathlon, take part in the Big Island Ironman?

We decided to reward you instantly for your writing efforts. Everybody whose entry will be posted on our Best Hawaii Vacation blog will get a link to his or her business URL. The same applies to all our many blog friends. With your post, you will get a backlink from our 3/10 PR Hawaii blog. Looking forward to your post entries about your Best Hawaii Vacation.
Mahalo and aloha, Pua and Keoki Vacation in Hawaii like Donald Trump - But Cheap!
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5 Best Secrets for Your Hawaii Spa Vacation

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Picture this...warm tropical breezes caressing your body while receiving a healing Hawaiian Lomi Lomi massage to the soothing sounds of gentle ocean waves of the Pacific Ocean. How better can it get?!

The Hawaiian Islands provide a perfect setting for healing your body, mind and spirit. Hawaii is one of those rare places in the world where the environment itself has a soothing and calming effect on vacationers. Many spa treatments in Hawaii make use of ancient & modern healing modalities. Hawaii Spa professionals help you rejuvenate, revitilize & regenerate. Take time to relax and recuperate in the serenity of exotic, tropical environment Hawaii has to offer.

Let's share our 5 best secrets with Hawaii travelers interested in a Hawaii Spa Vacation:

Secret #1
Better check websites of Hawaii Hotels and Resorts for special Spa vacation packages. In most cases you save $$$ when making the reservation for the Spa vacation package instead of paying for your room and spa service separately.

Secret #2
When in need for a massage and staying at a Hawaii resort or hotel, check the local phone book for Outcall massage therapists. It will save you $$$$$. If looking for other holistic treatments like acupuncture or naturopathic doctor, do the same.

Secret #3
You don't need to stay at a Hawaii resort or hotel in order to make use of their Spa facilities. Resorts will appreciate your call. When you know that you will come back for several spa tretaments, ask what discount you will get when buying several treatments.

Secret #4
Make your reservation for your therapeutic massage at your Hawaii hotel for the morning hours, when the therapist is fresh. Most therapists are full-time employed by the hotels in Hawaii. When you think 4pm is the best time for your massage, it's actually the 6th or 7th massage for the therapist! Not good.

Secret #5
There are more and more Hawaiian retreats available which don't only offer spa services customized to your needs and wishes but also affordable vacation rental accommodations. You just need to find them. Search for Hawaii Retreat Maui or Hawaii Retreat Kauai or the Hawaiian island you prefer.

As with all our posts on the Hawaiian Islands and your vacation in Hawaii, we include a few links to your Hawaii Spa Vacation:

Hawaii Health Guide Whether you are a visitor or resident of the Hawaiian Islands, the Hawaii Health Guide is designed to help you make informed choices about resources available for personal health in Hawaii.

Kekukui Health Directory Hawaiian Healing Therapies, Spas & Retreats

A Healing Island - Five Mountain Hawaii Many ancestors, residents and visitors believe that the Island of Hawai`i is a special place of healing.

If you know of more best secrets for a Hawaii Spa Vacation, please, share with us in your comment. Mahalo and aloha, Pua
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If you missed our blog post last year about Healing Vacations in Hawaii, read it now.

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Learn how to hula

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When visiting the Hawaiian Islands on your vacation, whether it's Maui, Oahu, Kauai or the Big Island, Hawaii visitors will encounter a hula dance. A hula show is part of any resort in Hawaii. In most cases, an individual hula dancer will be dancing at nighttime when hotel guests have dinner and enjoy the Hawaiian ambience. Many resorts or hotels in Hawaii include a hula lesson in their weekly activities or include it in their Hawaiian luau, where everybody can join the hula dancers at the end of the show. A good Maitai helps!

Just as the flower lei and the Hawaiian music have a long tradition within the Hawaiian culture, the hula is part of Hawaiian traditions despite of attempts by missionaries to eliminate it from the Hawaiian life in the last century. It has come back stronger than ever. As it takes dedication to learn how to hula, let's talk about where to can see the best hula in Hawaii and the world.


Become immersed in the powerful warrior ancient style kane hula!

Each year after Easter, Hawaii Big Island hosts the biggest hula festival with famous halaus from all the Hawaiian Islands and from all over the world at the annual Merrie Monarch Hula Festival in Hilo Hawaii. Tickets for the hula festival are sold out way ahead of the competition. Your chance to get in without having purchased a ticket is on Wednesday. There is a free hula exhibition night at the stadium that begins at 6:30pm. Find information on Hilo vacation rentals.

For all those who were not lucky to purchase a ticket for the Hawaii hula festival, there are the TV broadcasts on all Hawaiian Islands. We would always tape it and watch it later, without the commercials. Each year, a video is produced about the entire Merrie Monarch Hula Festival. The video can be bought at Island Heritage.

OK let's hula!!! Aloha, Pua Hawaii Hula Festival

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Where can I find Hawaiian Music

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OK, our big wave Maui surf video made you book your flight to Hawaii for your surf vacation. You arrive in Honolulu on Oahu or Lahaina on Maui and get welcomed by the warm gentle Hawaiian air and...yes, of course, by the gentle tunes of Hawaiian slackkey guitar music. Who can resist these sounds of Aloha?!

We talked in a post not long ago about Hawaiian Gifts to take home with you to the Mainland to keep as a sweet memory of your special Hawaii vacation. In that post, we also mentioned a few things about Hawaiian music.

First of all, we shared with those who wanted to get a taste of Hawaii by listening to Hawaiian music a great connection to a free Hawaiian music station. So you can listen, whenever you want to, provided you are sitting at your most favorite 'tool'...your computer. Here it is again



Get a Taste of Hawaii now. Listen to Hawaiian Music.

You can order right there music which you listened to and liked!

Here are a few of our favorite Hawaiian musicians:

Keali'i Reichel Hawaiin voice of pure sweetness.

Keoloa Beamer one of Hawai'i's premier singer/songwriters, arrangers, composers and master of the Hawaiian slack key guitar.

Hapa Hawaii's Super Group won many awards including "Album of the Year" & "Contemporary Hawaiian Album of the Year.

John Keawe the award winning slack-key (Kiho`alu) guitarist, composer and recording artist.

There are more great Hawaiian musicians. Listen and enjoy Hawaii. Aloha, Pua

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Not to forget...our beautiful Hawaiian post lady is Alise from WahineStyle.

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Surfing in Hawaii

Surfing in Hawaii
This post is a message to the the surfers who come back to Hawaii during the winter months to catch the big waves on the north shores of Oahu and Maui. Sorry guys our last post for vacation rental vacancies on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island, does not help you much to find a place to stay in Hawaii for your surfing adventure. For those surfers who consider their Big Island vacation for surfing Big Island's coasts, you got to be an insider or know at least some Big Island guys who are. Yes, the waves are high too but surfing territory is limited and one has to know it quite well. So, the north shores of Oahu and Maui are the way to go.

For the surfers who plan a first time surfing vacation in Hawaii, I decided to include a few Hawaii Surfing recommendations to prepare your surf trip:

Hawaii Surfing Guide: Hawaiian Surf Maps, Surf School, Lessons Hawaii surfing guide, with break descriptions, pictures, and tips for the various surf spots.
Surf News Network Hawaii Local Surf Report, Surf News, Surf Cam, Calendar of Events.
Get Hawaiian Surf Information Here and Surfing In Hawaii Incredible surfing in Hawaii!

Now comes the best part of this post. After checking tons of surf video clips on Surfing in Hawaii on youtube.com, I came across this one. To be honest, to really enjoy it, one has to love big waves (at least, most of us, love to watch them!). OK, surfers and non-surfers, enjoy the wild ride surfing the big waves in Lahaina on Maui.

We'd love to hear your comment about Surfing in Hawaii. Mahalo and aloha, Pua
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