Romantic Beach Weddings, Renewal of Vows Ceremonies and Commitment Ceremonies on the Big Island of Hawaii

 Simple, romantic beach weddings, renewal of vows, and commitment ceremonies on the Big Island of Hawaii. Serving the Kona Kohala Coast and all areas of the Big Island. Budget packages, wedding coordinator, photography, and ceremony planning for a sunset or morning ceremony at any location in Paradise.

 

 

Take a Tour of the Big Island...
and Some Romantic Beach Weddings!


 

“Marriage is an invitation to transcend the human condition. For in stepping beyond the self-focus of wanting to have only our own needs met, in schooling ourselves in the experience of putting another human being and his or her needs in a position of equal value to our own, we touch the web of transcendence, the presence of the Divine.”
                                                 ~ Daphne Rose Kingma

 

“I will love you
As the hawk flies high and floating circle
In the blue sky bowled intelligent
And endlessly alive above us,
Till the wingspan stilled falls
And the new night starry bright
Incomprehensible and distant
Beautifully bows down
And frees us from the earth
Sun moon sky
And takes us wakes us
And as stars we are reborn.”
~ Unknown


 

“Startled awake at this late and unexpectedly beautiful hour, long after sorrow, long after love, long after hope, I receive you in the breath of my soul to make my light with you, to fill with joy my glad heart, and to love you far more and dearly than ever before in all your imaginings you could have imagined; with the sight of my eyes, with the wings of my heart, with the milk of my soul. I have come to you with the plain grace of a small bird to love you and I will love you, honor you and adore you, and with my body, console you, and with my mind, embrace the unrepeatable refinements of your being.”
                                                                     ~ Unknown

 

 

 


 

“I ask you to bring your deep spirit to this marriage,
your willingness to walk the path of surrender,
of spiritual seeking and finding.”
~ Unknown

 

“Loving one another is the beginning of compassion…The compassionate, soul-changing loving of a single other human being connects us most profoundly to the All. And it is in the practice of this radiant, other-discovering love that true marriage calls forth the best in us, the most we can become.”
~
Daphne Rose Kingma




 

“Women bring us back into communication with the eternal source,
where God can be seen clearly.”
~ Ernest Renan

 

 

"I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing...I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love; for your dream; for the adventure of being alive."
~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer

 

 

 

“The real news on this planet is love – why it exists, where it came from,
and where it is going. How love fares against hate and indifference
is the only reliable measure of historical progress that we have.”

~ Gil Bailie

 

“My love, I waited so long for you that I had begun to believe there was no such thing as true love, that my life would be lived out alone, that nothing precious would come in the form of someone to love. Finally, after so many sorrows and missteps and losses, after I had given up all hope, you were given to me like a miracle,
like a single elegant star in the darkest of nights.”
~ Unknown

 



 

“Here all seeking is over, the lost has been found, a mate has been found to share the chills of winter – now Love asks that you be united. Here is a place to rest, a place to sleep, a place in heaven. Now two are becoming one, the black night is scattered, the eastern sky grows bright. At last the great day has come!
~ Hawaiian song

 

 

 




 

“When we were apart, I heard a voice, soothing my fearful heart,
telling me all dreams must start, from the place where the dream is true.
Now I know why I dreamed of you.
It was you who made my dream come true.
And why was it you who made it true?
Because my dream was your dream, too.”
~ Arnold Michael



 


 

“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person – it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distance. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

 



 

“You’ve been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed
 – and the natural state of the mind is pure love.”
~ Ram Dass

 


 


 

”Love is a great thing, a great good in every way; it alone lightens what is heavy, and leads smoothly over all roughness. For it carries a burden without being burdened, and makes every bitter thing sweet and tasty. Love wants to be lifted up, not held back by anything low. Love wants to be free, and far from all worldly desires, so that its inner vision may not be dimmed and good fortune bind it or misfortune cast it down. Nothing is sweeter than love; nothing stronger, nothing higher, nothing wider; nothing happier, nothing fuller, nothing better in heaven and earth; for love is born of God.”
                                                    
~ Thomas á Kempis

 

 

“Whoever loves true life, will love true love.”
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 

“In love are we made visible, as in a magic bath, we are unpeeled to the sharp pit so long concealed. With love’s alertness, we recognize the soundless whimper of the soul behind the eyes. A shaft opens and the timid thing at last leaps to surface with full-spread wing. The fingertips of love discover more than the body’s smoothness. They uncover a hidden conduit for the transfusion of empathies that circumvent the mind’s intrusion. In love are we set free, objective bone and flesh no longer insulate us to ourselves alone. We are released and flow into each other’s cup, our two frail vials pierced, we drink each other up.”
                                                                                   
 ~ May Swenson

 

 

 

 

 

“Sometimes our life reminds me of a forest in which there is a graceful clearing, and in that opening, a house, an orchard and garden, comfortable shades, and flowers, red and yellow in the sun; a pattern made in the light for the light to return to. The forest is mostly dark, its way to be made anew day after day, the dark richer than the light and more blessed provided we stay brave enough to keep on going in.”
~ Wendell Berry

 

 

“Marriage is more than just the sentimental formalizing of a feeling. It is a vote of confidence, indeed of conviction, that the romantic feeling of love will be enlarged to encompass far more than itself; that both persons will be able, in time, and within the sacred circle of marriage, to infinitely expand.”
~ Unknown

 

 

 

“Love is life’s highest destiny,
its greatest purpose,
and its finest work.”

~ Unknown

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday’s most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use in my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints – I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.”
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 



 

 

 “We drop like pebbles in the ponds of each other’s souls, and the orbit
of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.”
~ Joan Borysenko

 

 

 

"Men always want to be the first love of a woman.
Women, on the other hand, want to be the last love of a man."
~ Oscar Wilde

 

 

“I do not offer the old smooth prizes, but offer rough new prizes. These are the days that must happen to you: You shall not heap up what is called riches; you shall scatter with lavish hand all that you earn or achieve. However sweet the laid-up stores, however convenient the dwellings, you shall not remain there. However sheltered the port and however calm the waters, you shall not anchor there. However welcome the hospitality that welcomes you, you are permitted to receive it but a little while, afoot and lighthearted, take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before you, the long brown path before you, leading you wherever you choose. Say only to one another: Camerado, I give you my hand! I give you my love, more precious than money. I give you myself before preaching or law. Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me?
Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?”
~ Walt Whitman

 

 

 

“When we love, we bring out the most beautiful parts of the other person. That’s real magic.”
~ Jean Shinoda Bolen

 

 

 

“It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness. With sadness, there is something to rub against, a wound to tend with lotion and cloth. When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up, something to hold in your hands, like ticket stubs or change. But happiness floats. It doesn’t need you to hold it down. It doesn’t need anything. Happiness lands on the roof of the next house, singing, and disappears when it wants to. You are happy either way. Even the fact that you once lived in a peaceful tree house and now live over a quarry of noise and dust cannot make you unhappy. Everything has a life of its own; it too could wake up filled with possibilities of coffee cake and ripe peaches, and love even the floor which needs to be swept, the soiled linens and scratched records…Since there is no place large enough to contain so much happiness, you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you into everything you touch. You are not responsible.
You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit for the moon,
but continues to hold it, and share it, and in that way, be known.”
~ Naomi Shihab Nye

 


 

“Love. What a small word we use for an idea so immense and powerful it has altered the flow of history, calmed monsters, kindled works of art, cheered the forlorn, turned tough guys to mush, consoled the enslaved, driven strong women mad, glorified the humble, fueled national scandals, bankrupted robber barons, and made mincemeat of kings. How can love’s spaciousness be conveyed in the narrow confines of one syllable?...Love is an ancient delirium, a desire older than civilization, with taproots stretching deep into dark and mysterious days…The heart is a living museum. In each of it galleries, no matter how narrow or dimly lit, preserved forever like wondrous diamonds, are our moments of loving and being.”
~ Diane Ackerman

 

 

“When passion burns within you, remember that it was given to you for a good purpose.”
                                                                                                         
~ Hasidic saying

 

 

 

“Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be a shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no loneliness for you; now there is no more loneliness.
Now you are two bodies, but there is only one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place to enter into your days together.
And may your days be good and long upon the earth."
~ Apace song

 

“O Morning Star!
When you look down upon us, give us peace and refreshing sleep.
Great Spirit!
Bless our children, friends, and visitors through a happy life.
May our trails lie straight and level before us.
Let us live to behold.
 We are all your children and ask these things with good hearts.”
~ Great Plains Native Americans

 

 

 

 

“I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you, for the part of me that you bring out; I love you for putting your hand into my heaped-up heart and passing over all the foolish, weak things that you can’t help dimly seeing there, and for drawing out into the light, all the beautiful belongings that no one else had looked quite far enough to find. I love you because you are helping me to make of the lumber of my life not a tavern, but a temple; out of works of my every day, not a reproach, but a song.”
                                                    
 ~ Roy Croft



 

“I could open the doors and the windows to great winds,
let everything be scattered like loose sheets of paper.
Let tumbling take sense and proportion from what we have put in order that suits us.
But it would not change anything.
You have come in and your entrance has been final.
You do not leave me, nor do I leave you, beloved.
We have made of this house our place and our shelter.
When we go out, we will go out together.”
~ Ted Enslin

 

 

 




 

“Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths.
Love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock; molten, yet dense and permanent.
Go down to your deep old heart, and lose sight of yourself.
And lose sight of me, the me whom you turbulently loved.
Let us lose sight of ourselves, and break the mirrors.
For the fierce curve of our lives is moving again to the depths out of sight,
in the deep living heart.”
~ D. H. Lawrence

 

“Blessed are the man and woman who have grown beyond themselves and have seen through their separations. They delight in the way things are and keep their hearts open, day and night. They are like trees planted near flowing rivers, which bear fruit when they are ready. Their leaves will not fall or wither. Everything they do will succeed.”
~
The Book of Psalms, adapted by Stephen Mitchell

 

 

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you,
not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.”
~ Rumi

 

 

“You and I have so much love that it burns like a fire, in which we bake a lump of clay molded into a figure of you and a figure of me. Then we take both of them, and break them into pieces, and mix the pieces with water, and mold again a figure of you and a figure of me. I am in your clay. You are in my clay.”
~ Kuan Tao-Sheng

 

 

 

 

 

 

“I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire. I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom and carries hidden within itself the light of those flowers, and thanks to your love, darkly in my body lives dense fragrance that rises from the earth. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride. I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep, it is your eyes that close.”
                                                              ~ Pablo Neruda


 


 

 

 

 

 





"The time will come, in our very near future, when one more person envisions a peaceful world and with that seemingly tiny action, the scales are tipped. The storm clouds disappear and a new world, the world that we deserve to live in as our right of birth, opens up before us. It will be like a miracle...but it's not really a miracle."
~
Tony Burroughs

 

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Romance Tip #1:  Always have a full supply of candles around and light them nightly.

Romance Tip #2:  Talk to your partner while he's sleeping; touch his cheek and tell him you love him.

Romance Tip #3:  Spend an evening in romantic silence -- no words allowed; just body language.

Romance Tip #4:  Share a bowl of ice cream in bed.


Rev. Lona Lyons
P. O. Box 174
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96745

(808) 896-6666

email: lona@romanticbeachweddings.com

 

Simple, romantic beach weddings, renewal of vows, and commitment ceremonies on the Big Island of Hawaii. Serving the Kona Kohala Coast and all areas of the Big Island. Budget packages, wedding coordinator, photography, and ceremony planning for a sunset or morning ceremony at any location in Paradise.