Posted by jboothin2008
Posted by davenjess
We're going to do them because we're doing a unity sand ceremony & i want everyone to understand what it is.
I found a great website for them - their cheapest is 70 for 100 programs!!! I was going to DIY - but didn't want the stress of it!
www.wiregrassweddings.com
Jess, what's a unity sand ceremony?
I liked this better than the candle thing - though there is NOTHING wrong with the candle...this is just more FH & I....
Here is the part of our ceremony - hopefully it describes it well:
David and Jessica, today you join your separate lives together. The two separate bottles of sand symbolize your separate lives, separate families and separate sets of friends. They represent all that you are and all that you’ll ever be as an individual. They also represent your lives before today. As these two containers of sand are poured into the third, the individual containers of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separate and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage be.
Will you now step up to the altar and hold close to your heart the container of sand representing the essence of all that you are as an individual and all that you bring to this union. As you do so, embody the grains with all your hopes and dreams for the future, and all the particles of personality that make you unique and wonderful in one another’s eyes.
Bride and Groom come to behind the altar
and each takes their own container of sand in hand.
Within a marriage each person is both their own and each others, two individuals choosing to create a new life with endless possibilities and new dreams that are theirs together.
Will you now pour the sand that is to represent the foundation of your friendship which has grown into love and all that you bring to this union from the paths that you have traveled to get to this day?
Bride and Groom begin to intermingle their sand
Bring to mind the strength of your promises, the honesty, integrity and determination with which you make them.
Bride and Groom continue to pour their sand
Think of how you are giving yourselves, trustingly and whole heartedly to one another and to the spirit of your marriage.
Bride and Groom continue to pour their sand
And will you now seal the vessel with love as a reminder that nothing is more important, or more sacred, than the bond that you share as confidant and advocate, friend and lover, husband and wife now and for always.”
