[DontTreadOnMe2009]

“Makes perfect sense to Hawaiians except that no on can figure out why anyone in their right mind would choose to get married on Molokai back then.”

Molokai is a very very strange choice ...

I will let someone else who knows more about it than me explain in full, but no certificate has appeared to date. And Molokai in 1960 must have been very hard to get to, and nearly nothing there when you did get there, and a very small extremely small population.

Yes?

[centurion316]

Back then, Molokai was essentially a company town. I think that it was owned by Dole Pineapple, but I could be wrong. Whoever owned it, the place was entirely agricultural. I suppose that they might have been invited by friends to have their wedding there, but its very unusual.

[Menehune56]

I believe the Hotel Molokai was the first hotel on the island and it wasn't built until the late 1960s. I lived in the islands back in the 50s and 60s and have been to most of them but not Molokai which really is pretty remote. You can see it from Oahu and I always meant to go there but never did. It's hard to believe a non-resident would go there to get married. Maui sure but Molokai? Seems suspicious to me

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