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We're doing a love letter box, and considering a hand-fasting as well.
Nope, no unity candle, sand rituals, hand-fasting, etc. Just a lovely ceremony.
We're not doing anything. We discussed it all - unity candles, sand ceremonies, wine sharing, chocolate sharing, wine box, tree planting ceremony, water ceremony... none of it feels right for us, so we're not including any rituals in our ceremony.
We didn't do anything other than our vows and it was a lovely ceremony :)
We are planning on doing a hand-fasting ceremony. I was a little concerned when I keep reading about it being a wiccan ceremony. I continued looking and found a lot of information. I really like the idea of the hand fasting ceremony I watched a youtube video of one and it's perfect for us.
I don't think we'll do any of these ceremonies either. None of them really seem to fit with our "style."
we are just having a mothers rose ceremony.. to celebrate our mom's!
Ceremony, kiss, that's it! Candles, sand, etc... None of that is "us". We want to keep it short and simple :)
we arent. we are doing the Bell of Truce as a nod to our irish roots, but no unity candle or sand.
No sand or candles for us either. I couldn't find anything that we really loved, so short and sweet it is!
No candles, sand, handfasting, love letter box, etc. We kind of figured that "unity" was inherent in its being a wedding. We had the chuppah, ketubah, rings, seven blessings, and stamping on the glass, then called it a day.
We are doing the blessing of the hands "hand ceremony" in place of a unity candle or sand ceremony
We're not doing a unity candle because ours is a Catholic wedding, and for Catholics a lit candle represents the light of Christ, so it just would have felt weird having candles in the church that represented ourselves instead. We're not doing the sand thing either, just because for some reason it never held enough significance to me.
We are borrowing a nice Mexican tradition from my FI's family, though. During the communion rite, we'll have a long white and silver rope draped around us in a figure-eight, symbolizing our spiritual union.
enbrandner: I love that tradition. I'm not Mexican, but am Hispanic so I would love to borrow that for the ceremony. It's so lovely.
We are just keeping it short and sweet! No rituals, readings, etc. Just ceremony and vows :)
Ceremony, a reading and vows. It didn't seem like we needed anything more than that.
We're doing a water ceremony. We'll mix two colors of water and make green. We're getting married outside of an aquarium and it just seemed better then a sand ceremony.
We did a Japanese sake ceremony instead of the usual sand or unity candle. My husband's grandmother is from Japan and it was a way of welcoming me into the family.
sand ceremony and unity candle just doesn't make sense to us, we just might not do anything, or we will have a fingerprint guest book and do our fingerprints during the ceremony...
We did not do either. Just skipped right through that place. It didn't matter and no one noticed that there was anything missing. We had an outdoor ceremony so the candle would have been difficult and we were not at a beach so sand would have been weird. It worked out fine!
We didn't do either ceremony and like Farfromachildbride, we just kept going with the ceremony. No one mentioned anything to us about it. We just weren't really feeling that invested in either idea and figured we didn't need it.
We aren't.
We are doing the blessing of the hands reading though.
The symbolism of the unity candle/sand ceremony etc. just didn't resonate with us personally so we decided not to include it.
We aren't doing any kind of special ceremony besides our vows. The sand and candle ceremonies really aren't for us.
We didn't do any of that stuff. I think a unity candle or sand thing would be cool, but my husband would've thought it was a waste of time, haha. We had a very SHORT and sweet ceremony. Basically a hello - vows - you're married type of thing. The whole thing probably lasted like 5-10 minutes tops.
I'm surprised that alot of people aren't doing anything during the ceremony. We plan to do the wine box ceremony.
We're just saying vows. None of the symbolic stuff really resonates with us either. I think getting married, and everything that implies, is all the ceremony we need! I've joked that we'd be happy with a "Do you both take each other?" "Yep" "OK, you're married!"
We aren't doing the sand ceremony, and also not doing the candle ceremony. Our church tells us we can't have the candle ceremony because of the Orange County fire department code. I REALLY wanted to have a unity candle. 
However, we are doing the other Filipino traditional stuff, like the cord, coins, and veil.
We're not doing anything. We didn't want to have any rituals that felt empty to us or to do them just for the sake of it. We want the ceremony to be about us, so we're keeping it simple. vows, rings, kiss, married!
I don't know much about these things. But I don't personally like the sand or candle ceremonies for our purposes. What is hand fasting?
I'm not doing any of that stuff. Just basic ceremony. We are having a very small wedding and hope to include the attendees as much as we can.
We're not doing any of that and just having a simple, lovely ceremony.
Ooooh. I just looked up a bunch of rituals. I like the jumping of the broom. But I'm not African-American. Is this acceptable? I also looked at the handfasting. I like that a lot too, but I'm not fond of the wording for the Christian ceremony or the pagan/celtic ceremony. Hmmmm.
Like amariem25, we're having a Catholic Mass, so there will be the Eucharist. We don't feel the need to add any embellishments, like a unity candle, because its not very "us" and because we both feel that the wedding ceremony is, by its very nature, a show of our unity.
I just looked up a love letter ceremony, as I'd never heard of it before. I think it sounds like a time capsule of love! How cute!
We are not doing either. It doesnt really stand out to either one of us. Just a simple ceremony will be great!
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