Beach Weddings in Hawaii

Beach weddings in Hawaii are extremely popular. In fact, if you want a beach wedding, there is probably no place on earth more exciting than Hawaii. Any Hawaiian island is great for a beach wedding, although some are simply better than others. Let's take a look at each of the major islands and discuss how they are for beach weddings.

The Island of Oahu (where Honolulu is located) is the busiest of all the Hawaiian islands. With more than a million people crammed onto this isle, you can imagine that it tends to be crowded. The beaches tend to have a lot of people on them. For this reason, finding a good location for a more intimate beach wedding location tends to be a bit of a problem. Oahu has just become too commercialized for my tastes.

The Big Island of Hawaii is truly big. If you try to drive around it, you will discover that it takes a long time, and you will often not even see the ocean because you'll be so far from it. Hawaii doesn't have a lot of great beaches. They are few and far between. What it has most are rocky cliffs and impassable shorelines. So it is difficult to find good beaches where you can do a wedding. The Kona Coast is probably the best place for a wedding, but even there, you'll want to be aware of the air quality issues. Because Hawaii has an active volcano, the island often has a lot of vog (which is volcano smog) hanging over it. Whether you can see it or not, it will impact your ability to breath comfortably.

Kauai is a small island that receives a lot of rain. Most of the cities and beaches on Kauai are situation on the east, north and south sides of the island. On the east the current is dangerous and you want to swim there with caution. Other than the fact that it rains a lot, you want to be aware that the best place to have a sunset beach wedding in on beaches that face into the west (where the sun sets). And Kauai is just not set up very well for that.

Maui is, by far, the best island for beach weddings in Hawaii. It has more and better sandy beaches on the south and western sides of the island that are facing right into the setting sun. I've experienced thousands of sunsets on the beaches of Maui and I can tell you that they are almost awesome. It is only rare that you get a poor sunset on Maui.

If you do decide to have a beach wedding in Hawaii you'll be happier if you go to Maui. I would recommend two places for you to check out if you want to be married on a beach on this island. First is Maui Me Weddings, which is a company that can give you great more customized weddings. The second is Affordable Maui Weddings which has a website with probably the best prices on Maui. Either way, you'll want to check out Maui's incredible beaches.