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Aitutaki Lagoon Weddings with the Queen
The Discovery of Aitutaki -The Story of Ru Enua
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The Teal Story - by Queen Manarangi
Terei - a South Seas novel by Desmond Clarke -_excerpts
Terei- A Cook Islands Romance - Aitutaki Lagoon Wedding and Honeymoon.
Anne and Henry's South Seas Wedding on Aitutaki Lagoon
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You are My Heart's Delight - A Wedding Idyll in the South Seas
Of all the undertakings of mankind and womankind, there are few that match the romantic adventure of finding your true soul mate and getting married. On Thursday 3 July 2008, it was our great joy to help arrange the wedding of Anne and Henry Seward of Dublin, Eire, in the incomparable and enchanted setting of Roto Tai Lagoon, Aitutaki, South Cook Islands. An adventure of romance in paradise.
I Love You So Much - Anne and Henry Seward - Just Married
Tau here, Mamua,
Crown the hair, and come away!
Hear the calling of the moon,
And the whispering scents that stray
About the idle warm lagoon,
Hasten, hand in human hand,
Down the dark, the flowered way,
Along the whiteness of the sand..............
Rupert Brooke, Papeete February 1914
Aitutaki - The Island of Desire
"She called them with the voices of far lands
And with the flute like whispering of reeds,
With scents of coral where the tide recedes,
With thunderous echoes of deserted strands.
She babbled the barbaric lilt of tongues
Heard brokenly in dreams; she strung the light
Of swarthy smouldering gems across the night:
She wrung their hearts with haunting of strange songs....."
Richard Grimble - 1914
The Lagoonside Walk to the Paradise Arch of Flowers
Hasten, hand in human hand,
Down the dark, the flowered way,
Along the whiteness of the sand..............
Rev Charlie Teopenga performing the Marriage Ceremony.
... I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him and would not let him go ...
(Song of Solomon - Ch.3 V.4 )
"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine."
Song of Solomon - Ch.1 - V.2
"Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul."
The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
The Wedding Party - Queen Manarangi on the Left - Rev Teopenga on the Right
Wedding Breakfast on the Golden Sands - Prepared by Queen Manarangi
"And when thyself with shining foot shall pass,
Amongst the guests star scattered on the grass,
And in thy wanderings reach the spot,
Where I made one - turn down an empty glass."
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam - Edward Fitzgerald.
