Old Wailuku Inn – Maui B&B

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YOUR WEDDING DAY AND THE OLD WAILUKU INN AT ULUPONO –
A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN!

For the first time since opening in 1997, a wedding package is being offered at Maui’s historic and multi-award-winning bed & breakfast Inn, The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono. “Since the home was built in 1924 as a wedding gift for the original owner’s daughter-in-law, we think it’s perfect for small, garden weddings,” says Shelly Harris, daughter of Innkeepers Janice and Tom Fairbanks.
And, indeed, it is perfect. The beautiful lawn, stunningly landscaped yard, and big front lanai are reminiscent of Hawai‘i in a more graceful and genteel day. It has been the site of numerous special events. The Inn offers 10 distinctive guestrooms – seven in the historically-recognized, beautifully restored “Queen of Wailuku homes” and three in the lovely Vagabond’s House cottage. Features include hi-speed internet connection, Kula Herbs soaps, fine cotton bed linen, TV, coffeemaker, coffee blended expressly for the Inn by Maui Coffee Roasters, hair dryer, iron and ironing board, air conditioning and ceiling fans. Innkeepers Janice and Tom Fairbanks and their daughter Shelly Harris offer, in addition to real Maui-style hospitality, a wealth of Island knowledge to their guests.
The new wedding package is priced at an affordable $5000.00 and includes:
-all ten rooms for one night (to a maximum of 20 guests; please inquire about children)
-additional nights at just $150 per room per night (maximum two people per room)
-use of the yard for ceremony and reception
-large, special events tent
-tables, chairs, and linen
-tiki torches
-officiant
-still photographer and videographer (one [1] hour services only; price estimates and arrangements for purchase of photos and videos can be made with service provider)
The Inn will also arrange flowers, catering, music/entertainment for additional charges. These services are quoted on an individual basis. Ceremony and reception hours are limited to between 1:00 and 7:00 p.m., daily.
For those who’d like to get married in truly elegant kama‘āina style, The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono is the perfect choice. Please visit www.mauiinn.com for photos and lots of information about the historic Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono.
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CELEBRATE LEI DAY AT THE OLD WAILUKU INN AT ULUPONO WITH THE KEIKI, PARENTS, KUMU

AND STAFF OF PŪNANA LEO O MAUI

AND A GROUP OF HONORED KUPUNA

“Wear a lei, give a lei” is the sentiment of the day!

What more beautiful or appropriate place to celebrate May Day than the historic Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono? The rooms in the stunning 1924-era bed & breakfast Inn were designed with the poetry of Don Blanding in mind. Hawai‘i’s poet laureate of the ‘20s and ‘30s, Don Blanding is also the “Father of Lei Day.”*

Innkeepers Janice and Tom Fairbanks and Shelly Harris invite the public to celebrate Hawai‘i’s special day on Friday, May 1^st from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Joining in the celebration will be the keiki, parents, kumu and staff of Pūnana Leo o Maui – our Hawaiian language immersion preschool. The children and their parents will display lei they have made for the occasion. They will all be joined by a group of honored kupuna who will judge the lei. The children will perform.

Come celebrate at The Old Wailuku Inn at Ulupono. The Inn is located at 2199 Kaho‘okele St (corner of High St.) in Wailuku, diagonally across from Wailuku Elementary School. Please phone 244-5897 for more information or visit the Inn’s website at www.mauiinn.com

May Day is Lei Day in Hawai‘i!

*“…but there was nothing (no holiday) that was peculiarly and completely Hawai‘i’s own, none that included all of the polyglot population there,” Blanding wrote in Hula Moons in 1930. “So the bright idea I presented was, ‘Why not have a lei day?’ Let everyone wear a lei and give a lei. Let it be a day of general rejoicing over the fact that one believed in a Paradise. Let it be a day for remembering old friends, renewing neglected contacts with the slogan ‘Aloha,’ allowing that flexible word to mean friendliness on that day. Lei day is so appropriately linked with the inner life of Hawai‘i that it should become an established ceremony…No heart but must beat softer and gentler under the floral chain upon its breast. It symbolizes the memory line between smiles and tears. It chants welcome and farewell. And it pleads with low-voiced eloquence to be remembered…having been born of love, the day should be immortal. Each year it should bloom as nature blooms in the springtime around the earth to make glad the heart of man. ‘Wear a lei give a lei’ was the pledge.” The day was made official in 1929 and now Lei Day is established as a State holiday.