Question for girls doing or did the unity candle...

EJSD2006 Posted: Sep 14, 2006 08:50 PM

Question for girls doing or did the unity candle...

Did someone light your tapers for you? Meaning, did you call up 2 people to light the tapers from the Church candle and then hand them off to you so you could light the unity candle? We had our Godmothers come up and light them and then hand them off to us. Anyone else do this and if so, who did it?

july06bride Posted: Sep 14, 2006 08:52 PM

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My parents lit my taper and DHs parents lit his- Both parents-it was a very nice way to include all of them

RadioLau Posted: Sep 14, 2006 09:01 PM

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My parents lit my taper and DH's parents lit his. It was a really nice way to show the joining of the families.

reenielady Posted: Sep 14, 2006 09:05 PM

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I am going to have the mom's light the tapers at the beginning of mass

LaurenluvsTJ Posted: Sep 14, 2006 09:08 PM

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Posted by RadioLau

My parents lit my taper and DH's parents lit his. It was a really nice way to show the joining of the families.

this is what we did

tropicalbride07 Posted: Sep 14, 2006 09:13 PM

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at our church, there are 2 large candles already lit. Then me and FH take our own tapers, light them, and then together light the pillar.

EJSD2006 Posted: Sep 14, 2006 09:33 PM

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see! i knew i wasnt crazy!!! MIL was telling me the other day that she's never seen anyone do it the way we did it! i told her having someone else light the taper is done all the time and she didnt believe me!!! crazy lady!!!! thanks girls!!!

krispyc Posted: Sep 14, 2006 09:44 PM

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We had our parents do it for us. All 4 of them.

waterspout4 Posted: Sep 15, 2006 02:12 AM

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You're not crazy. Our moms lit ours.

sr081906 Posted: Sep 15, 2006 08:15 AM

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I believe the hall did it prior to the ceremony. Or maybe it was the officiant. I did not see a need to check that part so I can't even really remember. I guess I did not see that part as being part of the 'ritual'.

I thought the 'unity' candle was the important part.

italia6973 Posted: Sep 15, 2006 10:09 AM

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Posted by alnem

Did someone light your tapers for you? Meaning, did you call up 2 people to light the tapers from the Church candle and then hand them off to you so you could light the unity candle? We had our Godmothers come up and light them and then hand them off to us. Anyone else do this and if so, who did it?

We did the same exact thing. Our godmother's lit out tapers.

kissy27 Posted: Sep 15, 2006 10:18 AM

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DH & I light the tapers from the church candle after I was given away by my dad....After we were married, we went back & lite the unity candle

cindyandkevin Posted: Sep 15, 2006 11:09 AM

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We had a memorial candle for DH's mom so Fr. Tom suggested that we use her candle to light our 2 tapers. He said it looks beautiful in ceremonies and we agreed to do it, unfortunately it ended up being too windy outside so we didn't get to light them until the reception.

Our bridal attendant actually lit our unity candle and then DH and I light our tapers off of it, kinda backwards but we didn't realize it at the time!!