Mr. and Mrs. Bishop honeymoon on Kauai

At 8 p.m. on the evening of Tuesday, June 4, 1850, Princess Bernice Pauahi Paki (1831-1884) and Hawaii businessman Charles Reed Bishop (1822-1915) were married in a private Congregational ceremony performed by former missionary Rev. Richard Armstrong in the parlor of the original Royal School for alii children, located in Honolulu about where Iolani Barracks now stands.

Present at the wedding were missionary teachers in charge of the Royal School, Amos Starr Cooke — who would later co-found Castle & Cooke with S. N. Castle — and his wife, Juliette Montague Cooke.

Also in attendance were a few witnesses that included Mrs. Armstrong and Elizabeth Kekaaniau, a schoolmate of Princess Pauahi’s.

Missing were Pauahi’s parents, High Chiefs Abner Paki and Laura Kanaholo Konia, who’d hoped Pauahi would have married Prince Lot Kamehameha (the future Kamehameha V) instead.

Following the ceremony, the newlyweds sat down to tea, and at 9 p.m. they set off by wagon to Judge Lorrin Andrews’ downtown Honolulu home, where they planned to reside after their Kauai honeymoon.

The next day, Mrs. and Mrs. Bishop — who first met in Honolulu in 1847 — sailed to Koloa, Kauai aboard the inter-island boat “Kalama.”

On Kauai, the Bishops likely stayed at the Koloa home of Rev. Dr. James W. and Mrs. Melicent Knapp Smith, situated makai of the present Koloa Missionary Church.

While honeymooning, Mr. Bishop also looked over the affairs of H. A. Pierce & Co. (later renamed Lihue Plantation), which was then managed by James F. B. Marshall, and which Bishop had established in 1849 with fellow investors Judge William L. Lee and Henry A. Pierce.

Three week later, on July 2, the Bishops returned to Honolulu.

Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop was the great-granddaughter of Kamehameha I. The revenues from her estate fund Kamehameha schools.

Mr. Bishop founded the bank now known as First Hawaiian Bank and the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.