Who is doing a sand ceremony?

we did a sand ceremony......and just poured 2 different colored sands --- i had red he had blue.

this was what our officiant said as we did it:

“Melissa and Peter-you have committed here today to share the rest of your lives with each other. This beautiful union is symbolized through the combining of these two individual containers of sand. The first container represents you Peter, and all that you are, and all that you will ever be, and the next represents you Melissa, and all that you are and all that you will ever be. Each one holds its own unique beauty, strength, and character. They can stand on their own and be whole, without need of anything else. However when these two are blended together- they create an entirely new and extraordinarily more intricate entity. Each grain of sand brings to the mixture a lasting beauty that forever enriches the combination. Please pour the sand into this vessel to symbolize the union of the C*******and B**** family spirits. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage be a molding of these two individual personalities, bonded together forming one heart, one love, and one family. The life that each of you experienced now, individually, will hereafter be inseparably united, for the two shall become one!”

we did as well....steelers colored sand for Dave - yellow & black...

PASTOR APRIL:

“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.”

And everyone comes back to the front of the altar