An extremely wet morning gave way to clearing skies. Our wedding started at 5:30pm at Makena Surf. See that wedding site.

The couple arrived in their silver jeep wrangler. We sent the groom down to be microphoned while we got photo’s of the bride coming down the lush path. The bride, Melissa was adorned in a beautiful white wedding dress while Matthew was dressed in a dark blue pinstripe suit.

In the cove we had a circle of flowers where Matthew, Rev. Cleighton and Guitarist Kaleo waited for the bride. The wedding was blessed with a very comfortable cloud cover. The ceremony started with a glorious chant by our Hawaiian minister. You could see the joy in both the bride and the groom during the whole ceremony. After being pronounced man and wife, Kaleo played a great version of Brother Iz’s “Somewhere over the Rainbow”.

At the conclusion of the ceremony we did some after wedding photo and video shots including the famous “heart drawn in the sand” with the words “Maui’d Forever” written within. Another great shot was had when photographer Mark Steffan had them jump for joy with the ocean in the background.

Finally we drove the couple down to North Maluaka where chef Massimo had a tiki torch accented dinner for them both. We took a few pictures of the cake cutting and left the happy couple to enjoy their romantic gourmet dinner. They had the beach to themselves!

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