Weddingbee boards

#1: Ikea is my first place to check out for pretty (and cheap!) glass containers!  Also check out places that sell nice glass - like Pottery Barn, Mikasa, or even discount stores like Marshalls or TJ Maxx in the homeware section.  It may take some sorting through stuff, but there are a lot of great options to find pieces that work well.  Just make sure that the top is large enough that you can both easily pour the sand or rice into the central vessel, and bring a bit of aluminum foil or rubber bands to make sure that you can get the central vessel closed nice and tight after the ceremony!

#2: Totally creative!  The sand ceremony ISN'T about the physical sand - it's about the two individuals coming together in a creative way.  I think using rice and a baby pasta (little pastina are stars, how cute would that be!) would be a great way to honor your heritage, and your officiant can explain the meaning behind your choices, too.  I don't know if it's possible, but it would be nice to use colored pieces for one of them - either finding the tricolor pasta, or using a brown rice with one of the normal colored pieces would be great!

My fiance and I are considering doing a salt and pepper unity ceremony (just like a sand ceremony, but with salt and pepper being poured instead).  I love when my couples think outside of the box and really fit the rituals to them - it's a great way to really personalize your wedding ceremony!!

That's a really creative idea to use the rice and pasta.....I don't think u have to use broken rice, regular rice (or jasmine rice!! yum!!)is small enough, and about the same size as orzo.....u guys should eat it afterwards so that it will forever be a part of u!!! Sorry I love rice and orzo LOL 

We got our jars off ebay.  We found an antique jar with a lid for all th sand to go in and antique milk bottles for the sand to go in.  The milk bottles came from the state where each of us grew up.  :) 

I think the pasta and rice is such a neat idea!