{"id":3418,"date":"2017-12-14T06:22:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T06:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T01:52:51","slug":"hawaii-winter-beach-weddings-equal-big-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/hawaii-winter-beach-weddings-equal-big-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Winter Beach Weddings Equal Big Waves!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we had <em>humango<\/em> waves on the North Shore of Oahu.\u00a0 \u00a0Thirty to Forty feet!\u00a0 Just to put things into perspective, the light pole in front of your house is most likely twenty feet high.\u00a0 Can you imagine a wave twice as big as that?\u00a0 Talk about &#8220;holy toledo batman!&#8221;\u00a0Big waves in the winter is like snow in December, pretty much a guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>How will they affect your wedding?\u00a0 \u00a0Well&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On one hand, they can be great for photos.\u00a0 \u00a0 If the shorebreak, isn&#8217;t too big, I can get you two into the ocean (about ankle deep), and we can come up with some pretty cool photos.\u00a0 It is a bit dangerous but nothing that I would consider life-threatening.<\/li>\n<li>On the other hand, big waves can throw a wrench into wedding plans if they are too big.\u00a0 Beaches do close if the waves are too big and there&#8217;s nothing I can do about it.\u00a0 Waves have been known to threaten beachfront property.\u00a0 \u00a0 Many times, if the waves are on the North Shore are huge to the point where it&#8217;s washing up over the road, we just won&#8217;t use that beach.\u00a0 \u00a0Finding another suitable beach nearby is relatively easy.<\/li>\n<li>If you have anyone in your wedding party who has a hard time walking, let me know.\u00a0 \u00a0These waves are unpredictable.\u00a0 And the last thing I want is your mother-in-law washing away into the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 (Or, maybe I do if she&#8217;s a pain &#8211; lol).<\/li>\n<li>For the most part, big waves and Oahu go hand in hand.\u00a0 Yeah, there are big waves on the other islands, but they don&#8217;t have a photogenic sandy beach in front of them.\u00a0 If you want big wave beach shots, come to Oahu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The moral of this post?\u00a0 Big waves at your small Hawaii wedding, it&#8217;s a cool thing.\u00a0 \u00a0They&#8217;re here till\u00a0mid-February, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>[srizonfbalbum id=91]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we had humango waves on the North Shore of Oahu.\u00a0 \u00a0Thirty to Forty feet!\u00a0 Just to put things into perspective, the light pole in front of your house is most likely twenty feet high.\u00a0 Can you imagine a wave twice as big as that?\u00a0 Talk about &#8220;holy toledo batman!&#8221;\u00a0Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}