Mahinui Na Lani Rainforest Weddings

Hawaii Big Island Civil Union & Wedding Officiant

Mahinui Rainforest Weddings

We are in a private location, on the Big Island of Hawaii in the rainforest of Kilauea, adjacent to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Beneath the swaying ohia trees, surrounded by ancient hapu’u, the tree fern of this wilderness, there is a pavilion carved from tropical woods. We invite you to come to this natural sanctuary to celebrate your marriage, your life together, or to renew your love and vows.

We offer a non-denominational celebrant, your choice of Hawaiian style ceremonies, and a private and special place for your ceremony and celebration. We will record your marriage in digital photographs, and you can e-mail photos to your friends and family at your leisure, then party back home after your have claimed this special time and place just for yourselves.

Your wedding will ultimately be romantic and beautiful, a far thing from the justice of the peace or drive through wedding chapel, but with as little stress, and requiring as little planning, as the average runaway wedding. One of the most special days of your lives deserves to be memorable not for the drama of everyone else’s expectations, but because you celebrate the life you look forward to sharing in a setting that reflects the joy you feel in each other.

Here you will feel connected at a deep level to the earth and sky, and the living things with whom we share the natural and spiritual universe. You will feel your sensibilities expand to embrace the unseen, the spirit of an ancient people who once walked this place, and their idea of Pele, a feminine presence who brings about the birth of the land itself, and calls this particular forest a part of her sacred home. In the swaying of the ohia you will recognize the inspiration of the hula. You will feel the magic you share with each other combine with this expanded awareness to create for you an aura of serenity seldom experienced in our everyday lives.

It is easy to have a civil union in Hawaii. You can register your intent in Hilo, a half hour from our location, and have your celebration the same day if you wish. If you will not be registering your civil union with the state, the ceremony may still go on.

The Rainforest Wedding Pavilion

Our wedding pavilion was carved and shaped to echo and pay homage to the forest in which it sits. Its purpose is to offer a wedding destination of great beauty and complete privacy. Your choice of music is brought into the space by means of a Bose sound system delivery from either your iPod or ours. If you do not bring your own iPod with your chosen playlist for the occasion, we offer classical music as befits a wedding, followed by classical Hawaiian slack key guitar and ukulele tunes.

This outdoor room, protected from the weather by a wide roof pitched over a hardwood floor, can accommodate an intimate wedding party of up 24. Your wedding can be as simple as you the couple, the ceremony and a wedding toast, with photography and music, or we can help you plan an elegant reception to include a small group of people for a feast, dancing, and memories to last a lifetime.

We will transport you and your guests from your local Volcano accommodations to and from the celebration site. Your special event will take place in complete privacy, the only onlookers the birds, the celebrant and witnesses, those guests you choose to include.

The Rainforest Tree House

Mahinui Na Lani was designed by internationally acclaimed tree house builder Roderick Romero to fit into this ancient forest as if to welcome Pele herself.

Lifted off the forest floor to the level of the birds.
Imparting a sense of the lightness of being.
Opening the doors of the imagination.
Inviting you to escape from the everyday.

You will bring your sense of fantasy, and let your imagination soar with the birds. We invite you to share the experience of this floating structure anchored to the trees whose roots are wrapped around a lava tube. Centuries ago, when Kilauea spilled lava across what is now a lush rain forest, a giant bubble rose up, and hardened. Lava continued to flow through, to the ocean. Part of the ancient forest that used to form the canopy on this island remains on this site, offering its shelter to all who stay here.

Begin and end your adventures on the Big Island in the cedar hot tub Built to be green, with recycled and locally found materials, and low impact waste systems. Water is by catchment.