Hawaiian Wedding Songs for Guitar

If you are planning to organize your wedding in an exotic location a Hawaiian place seems to be the perfect choice! The possibilities offered by the location itself are numerous and through this you can give distinction to your ceremony.

The name of the island comes, according to some, from the legendary Polynesian navigator who first discovered it, or as others account, from a legendary realm of Hawaiki, a place where the Polynesians would go in the afterlife, the land of God.

In the nice settings that Hawaiian location displays, the wedding party has to be made surrounded by family and friends in a regal of floral decorations. There is traditionally this circle of flowers that you and your partner stand in when you say your vows. And for the setting to fit well in the picture, have some Hawaiian music play. The instruments used in the traditional Hawaiian music are ukulele (a chordophone - a subset of the guitar family, generally with four nylon or gut strings), guitar, flute, harp. There is another popular tradition used at the weddings: blowing of the Conch shell or pu. This custom was meant to introduce the beginning of a ceremony and nowadays the blowers will blow in three directions to call the Gods and thus to start the wedding ceremony. This can be a signal to let the late guests know that your ceremony is about to begin.

As to the music which is to be played at your wedding also a good choice is the Hawaiian wedding songs for guitar, in which the lyrics are a summon to the beloved one, a description of the feeling of love one has inside, and how the nature responds to it. The Hawaiian wedding songs have promises of long lasting love, a love that can never bring clouds on the sky, love that can only  make life shine and in a total communion with the nature.

A translation of one of the most traditional Hawaiian wedding songs for guitar goes like this:

"Here I am waiting /Where is my beloved /I've searched for you

Now that I've found you /Calm the desire of my heart /Sealed forever to you

Sweetheart you are so precious /I pledge my love to you alone /I desire you

True to you alone (alone) /With you joy will ever be mine

Fond remembrance of the one who came /My fragrant lei /Drenched in the rain

Listen you, my heart's desire /To the thought within me /Open the heaven within my body

My flower, my fragrant lei /I will string and bind /Like the fragrant jasmine flower

You are my blossom (you, my blossom) /My lei of lehua (lehua)

My desire is always to be with and close /To my love"

In this song we can see the same desire to be next to the beloved one, once that he/she is found. The loyalty is part of the vows, the resemblance to the nature's elements is also present due to the presence of love, so do not hesitate and have some Hawaiian song to be performed at your wedding, as they can not but render the emotions of the moment.