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Family Candy Blending
Bride & Groom Candy Blending
Bride & Groom Candy Blending
Instead of using sand, small jars labelled with each family member’s name holds their favourite candy, sweet or whatever you want to call them.
Every family member has their own strengths, wishes and hopes and their chosen candy represents those differences.
The act of layering the candy is also a symbol of the different members of the family bringing their own unique flavour to the mix.
When the family member is asked to combine their candy into the ‘Us’ or ‘Family’ jar it is symbolic of the compromises that need to be made, but also how life is all the more sweet and exciting when families come together and share what they have with each other.
And it's delicious!
Bride & Groom Candy Blending
Bride & Groom Candy Blending
Bride & Groom Candy Blending
Here is where the bride and groom get to show their sweet tooth in the colour they like best.
Creating a beautiful keepsake to display for all to see and remember their wedding day.
Wedding Unity Tree Ceremony
Celebrate your marriage with an age old tradition! Couples often planted a tree where they watched it grow over the years. There still remains wedding trees older than 70 yrs.
Include your children or parents in this delightful ceremony. The unity of the family is seen as your loved ones add soil to the potted tree & you finish the ceremony by both watering the tree together. The officiant explains to your guests how the tree & the essence of your marriage must remain strong, & flexible, & deep rooted. Using the metaphor of the growing tree to your marriage is perfect.
Heart Love Locks
No one knows how or when this ancient Chinese custom began. Locking your love is the ancient custom of symbolically locking one's love on a never-ending chain. You can forever lock your love with beloved. For those who wish to symbolize their enduring love. Each one locks their heart padlock to the other's and slips the locks onto a chain or ribbon that creates a never ending circle. Then tie the keys to a separate ribbon attached to 2 helium filled balloons to be released into the sky, thus uniting your love for eternity.
Unity of Sands
This is a beautiful and meaningful unifying ceremony that symbolized the joining together of the Bride and Groom, or the blending together of their families. This is a great ceremony to include your children in the actually ceremony.
HandFasting with Cords
The Celtic style using 3 cords that you braid & both add your own magical energy into. You can add charms & feathers or anything that has meaning to you. You can choose the colours of the cords that have a spiritual representation to you. There’s no end to how creative you can be together.
HandFasting with Ribbons
A modern version using 7 ribbons of selected colours. After placing each the ribbons between the couples fingers (Palms together) & explaining what the colours mean as well as asking a question of the couple for each ribbon, all the ribbons & gathered together & tied into a knot.
Sea Shell Blessing
Each member of the wedding party is given a sea shell to hold representing their unique individuality and their presence at the wedding. During the ceremony, the Officiant will ask each person to make a special silent blessing or wish over the shell after which the shells are collected into a decorative container symbolically joining family and friends, through the couple, into one.
The Unity Sandwich Ceremony
Build a delicious marriage foundation with a Unity Sandwich.
Choosing the ever-popular sammich can be the ideal metaphor for your marriage.
As it has been recently realized the sandwich is the perfect analogy for a relationship.
All ingredients are compatible but different and are supported on a nourishing foundation.
A list of each of the ingredients making up the couples sandwich with the meaning behind each ingredient on how it relates to their relationship.
After the couple completes putting their one of a kind sammich together it is time for them to "Take a Bite"!
This unity ceremony can truly be a meaningful and humorous way to celebrate your marriage.
Creating a Marriage Candle
To symbolize the bonding act of marriage the bride & groom will be creating a marriage candle.
Each has chosen a colour of wax to represent them.Each brings to the candle a lasting beauty that forever enriches the combination.Your wax beads have created a candle and when it is lit & the wax melts, it further melds & bonds together and now it is the heart from which this candle burns.
This candle is also called a candle of Commitment because it takes two people working together to keep it aflame.
Lei Exchange
Spice of Life Unity Ceremony
Spice of Life Unity Ceremony
In the Hawaiian language the word “Aloha” is threefold in conversational exchange.
It means hello, goodbye and love.
Literally translated, aloha means to share the spirit of life, one’s breath, with one another.
The giving of a Lei is an expression of Aloha.
When two people promise with Aloha in their hearts to share the adventure of life, it is a beautiful moment that they and all of us who are present today will always remember.
This is also a great ceremony to include your children or parents.
Spice of Life Unity Ceremony
Spice of Life Unity Ceremony
Spice of Life Unity Ceremony
Couples who enjoy cooking together or enjoy flavorful spices might consider this unique wedding ceremony tradition of blending spices to demonstrate a healthy and well-balanced marriage. The tradition gets its roots from the Middle East. Several bowls or pouring vessels are placed before the bride and groom, each containing a special spice. You then take turns scooping or pouring a bit of each into a small pouch or central vessel, creating your own spice blend that you can keep and use to season your future meals together. If placed in a vessel you can layer the bottom with salt and the top.
Tasting the Element
Spice of Life Unity Ceremony
Arras/13 Coins Ceremony
Tasting the Elements is a wedding ceremony tradition taken from the Yoruba culture whereby a bride and groom are asked to taste four elements.
As the couple tastes each item, a commentary is read as to how the taste of that element relates to marriage.
It is said to represent the promise to love your partner “for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health.”
The couple animates as they taste each item. Ranging from bitter to sweet.
The animation of the bride and groom, as they taste each element, is what brings this fun option to life.
Arras/13 Coins Ceremony
“The Holy Guacamole Ceremony”
Arras/13 Coins Ceremony
This is a traditional Spanish/Latin American ceremony. But it can be adapted to fit any couple desires.
The symbolism of the 13 gold coins in this ceremony is that the groom recognizes his responsibility as a provider, and pledges his ability to support and care for his wife. Acceptance by the bride means taking that trust and confidence unconditionally with total dedication and prudence.
“The Holy Guacamole Ceremony”
“The Holy Guacamole Ceremony”
“The Holy Guacamole Ceremony”
The couple uses the making of guacamole to signify their joining together today as one. With each ingredient used to make the guacamole being compared to the unity in their marriage.
"We will call it “The Holy Guacamole Ceremony”
A recipe can be symbolic in the same way: After all, you're mixing up the best ingredients for a marriage!
To symbolize their equal partnership the happy couple takes turns adding each ingredient until it was perfect.
Breaking of the Glass
“The Holy Guacamole Ceremony”
“The Holy Guacamole Ceremony”
It is a Jewish custom to end the wedding ceremony with the breaking of a glass.
I give an explanation for the tradition before the groom stomps on the covered glass.
As the glass is broken, I invite everyone to shout “Mazel Tov,” which means “congratulations and good luck.”