If you planning unusual wedding you can choose one of the beautiful beaches on the Hawaiian Islands. It is one of the beautiful places for wedding. Also it has many different traditions. Most couples choose to add a bit of Hawaiian culture to their wedding, if they couldn’t allow for themselves a real wedding in the Hawaiian Islands. Many wedding designers can help you choose beautiful tropical flowers and your Hawaiian beach wedding dress. Yellows, oranges, reds are very popular and they look beautiful in the photographs.

Hawaii weddings customs are very beautiful and add to the charm of your special day.

The traditional Hawaiian flower lei, signifies love, respect and aloha. Aloha is a word of many meaning including love, affection, sweetheart, beloved, kindness, comparison respect and admiration. They are worn by the bride and the groom as well as a part of the wedding party. Traditionally there is a lei exchange between bride and groom at the beginning of the ceremony. It represents your eternal commitment and devotion to one another. Usually the bride wears a garland of flowers in her hair more often than a veil. Traditional color of Hawaii weddings is white. Usually the bride wears a long, white formal version of the muumuu called a “holoku”. The bride’s bouquet may consist of white orchid sprays. The groom wears a long sleeve white shirt and white pants. And he wraps around his waist a long red or colored sash. But it is also common these days for the groom and best friend to wear aloha shirt with light colored pants and for ladies to wear the coconut bras and grass skirt.

Music is a central part of any wedding. Hawaiian music is very romantic. The Hawaiian Wedding Song, Ke Kali Nei Au, is usually played during the ceremony, although it would work nicely as the first dance at your reception as well. Other Hawaiian wedding popular songs are “Blue Hawaii”, “Pretty Red Hibiscus”, “Maile Swing” and “Sophisticated Hula”. Some couples choose to have their Hawaii wedding ceremony accompanied by ukulele, steel drams, and hula dancers.

Traditional wedding dance is a Money Dance or Pandango. Here the guests tape money together around the bride and groom as they dance. The dance continues until the guests have had an opportunity to express their best wishes to the newlyweds.

Hawaiian wedding dishes include fruit such as star anise, oranges, pineapples, mangos, kiwi, bananas and coconuts. A typical Hawaiian wedding feast uses local cuisine such as shrimp, hirame, sashimi, stuffed crabmeat, moi poke, tofu, lobster, spare ribs and crab cakes. And of course there is the traditional Hawaiian  roast pig cooked in an in ground oven (called an Imu). A special note: no alcoholic beverages are allowed on public beaches and parks in the State of Hawaii.

The traditional cake cutting ritual has a beautiful custom completed with Aloha. The wedding cake which is made of flour, formed from wheat symbolizes a new life. The first cutting slice of cake symbolizes a commitment to share whatever path life takes. To give each other a piece of cake is a symbol of the vow of love, respect and honor. During the cake cutting ceremony there is a beautiful tradition to mash a piece of wedding cake into your spouse’s face.

Another tradition it is when three candles are lit. The bride lights one candle, the groom lights another, and together the bride and groom light the Unity Candle, the candle which signifies their union as husband and wife.