![]() This will preserve the swirls and make a nice display item for the home. After the ceremony and festivities, jar is typically sealed by pouring hot wax into the top of the jar, and then capping it with a cork stopper or other lid. Similar to the water ceremony, the bride and groom both pour different colored sand into a glass, taking turns, a little at a time, which creates colorful swirls and patterns. When the bride and groom begin their drink, guests drink with them, to symbolize commitment to the couple. Variation: Tables with wine glasses are placed next to seating area, for guests to pick up a glass as they take their seats. Officiant: "May the robust energy, strength, and rich love you have for each other be with you always." (They place the wine glass back on the table and turn back to the officiant) Drink now and may the cup of your lives be sweet and full to overflowing." You drink from the same cup to symbolize your trust in each other, and to be reminded that from this day forward you will share all that is to come, encompassing all sorrows and joys, all hardships and triumphs, all the experiences of life. Although you are two distinct persons, both respecting the equal dignity of the other, you have chosen to unite your lives and to seek your happiness together. Officiant: "This cup is a sign of your unity. (The couple each add wine from their carafe into the common cup) Officiant: "_ and _, As your lives blend together, so shall your wines." Some of the wine will remain in their individual carafes which represents that each of them remains separate individuals. The combination creates a rosé, which is symbolic of their blending together through a committed relationship in marriage. The other carafe contains white wine, fermented in oak barrels, it represents the strength of a loving marriage and a lingering taste in their soul for the love they feel for each other. ![]() One carafe contains red wine representing the deep richness of the love in their hearts and the robust energy which keeps their loving relationship going. The bride and groom each take a carafe of wine and each pour some into a single glass, which they both drink from. May the lights of your own special lives continue to feed the new flame of love which will fuel your future together - through all its hopes and disappointments, its successes and failures, its pleasures and its pains, its joys and its sorrows - a future filled with the warmth and love of the flame you share today." ![]() May you also continue to recognize that separateness from which your relationship has sprung. (During Candle Lighting) "On this day you make a new light together, symbolizing the two becoming one. ![]() Sample reading for candle ceremony: (prompt) “And now, _ and _, it is time to light your candles.” Or, “And now it is time for the candles of unity.” This variation typically includes a proclamation that this ceremony represents the unity of friends and family supporting the couple in their marriage. Guests pass the flame until all are lit, and then the bride and groom together light their unity candle. Variation 3: All guests are given a candle, and the first guest's is lit. Then bride and groom turn, with candles in hand, to light the unity candle with the candles they received. ![]() At the same time, groom's mother passes her candle to the last groomsman, ceremoniously passing the candle up the line to the groom. Variation 2: Bride's mother passes a lit candle to last bridesmaid, and the candle is passed ceremoniously up the line to the bride. Fathers light the mother's candles, then mother's use those candles to light bride and groom candles followed by bride and groom lighting the larger unity candle with their respective candles. Variation 1: Each mother holds an unlit candle. The bride and groom each take a lit candle and simultaneously light a third larger "unity candle." They may blow out their individual lights, or leave them lit, symbolizing that they have not lost their individuality in their unity. ![]()
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