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Content creator Sofia Bella married Austin Rodrigues-Ganigan in Las Vegas on Sept. 27

The bride honored her Hawaiian husband by surprising him with a heartfelt hula dance solo

"It blew me away," Austin tells PEOPLE

A bride's surprise hula dance solo left her Hawaiian groom in awe.

For years, Oʻahu-born Austin Rodrigues-Ganigan, 29, jokingly reminded his then-girlfriend, content creator Sofia Bella , 28, that it was a Hawaiian wedding tradition for brides to hula dance. At the time, Sofia would simply laugh and say she was "too shy" to do that, but in reality she was "already planning" to one day surprise him with the special wedding performance.

"Austin always says hula is storytelling — it’s so much more than dance," Sofia tells PEOPLE. "Before the wedding, he had us

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