Chapter 632 Planning
Starting from Honolulu International Airport, the road leads directly to Waikiki Beach. The hotel Liu Shuquan booked them is only five minutes from the beach. This store is only ten minutes from the Big Banyan Tree. On the way to the hotel, you will pass through the United Nations Building, which is located in the heart of Oahu Island and has several offices of international institutions nearby.
The Kingdom of Hawaii was established by the Polynesians in the 18th century, and then Asian and European immigrants continued to join. During the World War, the United States wanted to take the opportunity to annex Hawaii, but was soon stopped by its old opponents across the ocean. After a political game, the two sides tacitly regarded Hawaii as a buffer zone for both sides, so the Kingdom of Hawaii survived smoothly.
Since then, the Hawaiian component has basically been fixed, with about 50% of Polynesians, 30% of Chinese, 10% of Japanese, the rest are European immigrants, and a very small number of Indians. The main sources of income of the Kingdom of Hawaii are agriculture, finance, light industry and tourism, as well as some ocean shipping companies, but most ocean companies have shares in China or the United States.
Another large income of the Kingdom of Hawaii is the land rent of the United Nations. Most of the tens of thousands of employees of the United Nations are locals, mainly responsible for lower-level jobs, which is also a significant supplement to the local economy.
It only took more than 20 minutes to arrive at the Trump Hotel from Honolulu International Airport. There are many cars on the way and there are many tall buildings. From the street, it is not inferior to a big city like Pu Haipingjing. From this point of view, Honolulu is indeed an international metropolis, not some traditional resorts, and has nothing but tourists.
Honolulu's financial industry is not particularly developed, at least not as good as a place like New York. Many of the high-rise buildings are international office buildings, and their business categories are diverse, but the most important ones may be companies in international trade and futures trading, because Honolulu has relatively advantages in tax revenue.
After the convoy arrived at the Trump Hotel, there were naturally luggage workers to help carry their luggage. This is a five-star hotel with a very good service level, warm and considerate, but the price must be amazing. Liu Jinpeng took the time to ask Liu Shuquan. Lao Liu was not sensitive to prices and had to ask the secretary to find out. He casually reported a number: "More than 6,000."
Needless to ask, it must be the US dollar. Hawaii has its own currency, but the strange thing is that the US dollar and the Blue Yuan are better than the local currency here. Many hotels use these two international currencies as settlement units. Even if it is 6,000 US dollars, it is more than 20,000 yuan. Compared with domestic hotels, this kind of place is more harmful.
Liu Mei was very satisfied with the room. This hotel is the kind of place that is not surprising. Everything is so normal that you can't tell you how to find faults, but there is absolutely no surprise. All the decorations of the luxurious honeymoon set are carefully designed, but they just can't make people shine. I can only say that it's very good, that's all.
The five-star hotel has all the services, and even the gym and library are open 24 hours a day, the spa hall, four outdoor pools, one of which is a saltwater pool, and the lounge on the first floor is open all day and can meet the guests' special needs, such as liquid breakfast.
The balcony of the guest room is very large, with four chairs and two parasols placed, and there is enough room for activity. From the balcony, you can see the beach in the distance. At this moment, the beach is already crowded with colorful clothes and white, brown, black and red.
Liu Shuquan's bodyguard checked around. His secretary was a woman. He had never seen him before. He was preparing drinks for the boss and several guests. Liu Mei was not very good at this female secretary. She also secretly mocked Liu Shuquan for not keeping her word. Lao Liu didn't care about this. He pulled Liu Jinpeng and said that the wedding preparations had been completed in the past few days. The banyan tree would be temporarily cleared on the wedding day, but it could only be guaranteed for 2 hours. Liu Jinpeng thought 2 hours was enough.
In fact, Liu Shuquan wanted to hold the wedding more grandly. He hoped to hold the wedding on another deserted beach instead of having to do it in a noisy place in Waikiki. If he held it on that beach, he could also do a lot of construction, at least temporarily build a water platform, which would be much better than under a banyan tree.
However, Liu Mei was convinced that she insisted on holding a wedding under the banyan tree, and she also thought of an idea that no one had ever thought of, that is, an aerial wedding. Her idea was somewhat unreasonable. The activities of the Oahu Skydiving Club were held in the north, and there was a good venue there to cooperate, but she wanted to hold an aerial wedding in the south of the island, but there was no place to land here.
Liu Jinpeng was also in a difficult situation. He couldn't do this. The problem was that it was in public. If there was something beyond common sense, wouldn't it be a big deal? In the end, he persuaded Liu Mei, and first held a wedding ceremony under the banyan tree, and then went to parachuting for the air wedding. The question now is where to find a priest who dared to go to heaven?
The highest limit for folk skydiving is 4260 meters, which is close to 14,000 feet. Although it looks so high, the time it takes to jump off the plane to lure the control is only more than 50 seconds. It is very difficult to finish the oath exchanging ring in such a short time.
Sure enough, although Liu Shuquan found nearly a hundred pastors or priests, none of them agreed to attend such a wedding. Some were sophisticated and polite, even said that he was blasphemy, and said that the sacred ceremony of the wedding must be held in the church.
Liu Mei is going to hold a wedding, and of course her good friend is coming to attend. Lydia took the time to come from Los Angeles in her busy schedule. She also brought good news. That is, a priest agreed to attend such a wedding, but he had a request, that is, he would rather not do it. Obviously, the priest wanted to brand this kind of thing on his own, and he would have to find him as long as someone wants to play like this in the future.
Liu Mei was reluctant to let outsiders plan her wedding, but the priest was hard to find. Unless she was willing to get married without a priest, things would be much easier. In the end, she surrendered and reluctantly agreed to let the extraordinary priest plan the wedding. However, she complained to Liu Jinpeng privately: "If he messed up the matter, I will let Lida write about him playing with the little boy in the tabloid."
Perhaps God had told the bride-to-be resentment, and the priest Valentine soon arrived in Honolulu. After the official meeting, the two sides found that the other party was very young. The newlyweds were naturally in their 20s, but the priest in a black robe looked about thirty years old. Although he had a beard, he still looked very tender.
Father Valentine's deconstruction of the wedding was also very trendy. He even suggested that the groom and the bride modify traditional wedding dresses, such as men's tuxedoes that can be made into casual styles, while women's wedding dresses can expose their knees. These suggestions are mainly for the convenience of parachutes, but his suggestions were not adopted by Liu Mei in the end.
Although the priest's suggestion was not adopted in the end, Liu Mei still simplified the complex wedding dress with the help of an experienced parachute coach. Otherwise, if she was stuck in a place and the parachute could not be opened, it would be too late to cry. During the design of these wedding dresses, Father Valentine had always wanted to participate, but Liu Mei cunningly refused.
In her afterwards conversation with the priest, she said: "Dear priest, I have a proposal. I am very grateful for your wedding for you this time. But I am a little woman without a profession, so I hope to offset the cost with the design of the wedding dress. Do you think my proposal is great?"
Father Valentine really wants to complain, you, a little woman with no profession, already have billions of dollars in assets, okay? Such a rich man is still so stingy. I risked my life to host a wedding for you and only gave me 10,000 dollars. Now I actually want to offset the cost with the wedding dress. Is there any mistake?
However, the priest was a well-educated person and retorted in a low-key manner: "This is not very good. The fees I charge are not what I personally need, but the income of the church. I can't help this, I'm really sorry."
Liu Meicai didn't believe that. The two sides had just reached an agreement verbally and had not signed any contract so far. The church did not believe that anyone would have to rely on the accounts, and it was relying on the accounts of the church. Therefore, it generally would not conduct a so-called "full of money" ceremony for commercial contracts. When Father Valentine said this, the expression in his eyes clearly despised her for not enough chips, this greedy ghost.
"Then you'll get half the charge."
“It’s really not very convenient.”
“40%, no more.”
"Dear lady, my faith is firm, please don't do this."
"Okay, the last quotation is 25%. If not, forget it. I will buy a patent and sell it for the same price."
"make a deal."
After the two of them started bargaining, they became sneaky. Father Valentine also threw the so-called demeanor aside. After the price was negotiated, both of them smiled satisfied. Liu Mei was proud to use a wedding dress design to pay for the price. Anyway, this thing was only used once, and Father Valentine was happy that he had obtained another good design and would be an expert in the air wedding in the future.
Chapter completed!