<P> The Coco Palms Resort achieved early exposure and fame in the 1961 Elvis Presley movie Blue Hawaii . Most of the last twenty minutes of the movie was shot on and near the grounds of the Coco Palms . </P> <P> The ceremonial torch lighting ceremony "Call to Feast," which took place every evening at 7: 30pm, for forty years (until September 11 1992, when the devastation of Hurricane Iniki struck the island of Kaua ʻi), was featured in the film . This torch lighting ceremony was the original such event, copied in recent years by many other resorts and hotels in Hawai ʻi . An additional scene was the conch shell - blowing doorman greeting them upon check in at the lobby (which was modeled after an ancient Hawaiian Canoe Lodge). </P> <P> The wedding ceremony, portrayed in the final scene where Elvis croons "The Hawaiian Wedding Song" to Joan Blackman as they ride their flower - bedecked double - hulled canoe through the lagoon to the Wedding Chapel, is credited with creating a high demand for weddings at the Coco Palms Resort . Prior to its close in 1992, the Resort hosted over 500 wedding ceremonies annually . The Shah of Iran visited the resort in 1958 and planted a palm tree in the grove as part of a special ceremony to honor his visit . </P> <P> The Wedding Chapel was donated by Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer to Coco Palms in the mid-1950s after using it in the film Miss Sadie Thompson, which starred Rita Hayworth . Former Kaua ʻi mayor, Maryanne Kusaka, was married at the Coco Palms . </P>

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