Chocolate Unity Ceremony.. Need some ideas

Throughout your lives together you will have times that are like eating your favorite chocolates; sweet and filled with a favorite flavor: raspberry, cream, or caramel. At other times you will experience the dark and bitter-sweet side of life, like the darkest of chocolates.

_____ please take a piece of the dark chocolate and feed it to _____. Now _____, please feed _____ a bite of the Dark chocolate.

Right now you both are experiencing the more bitter side of chocolate together. Just as in life you will have to experience those more bitter times together.

_____ now take a piece of the milk chocolate and feed it to _____.

And _____, please feed _____ a bite of the Milk Chocolate.

At this moment you are both experiencing the sweet side of chocolate together. These bites of chocolate represent the wonderful sweet life that you two will have together.

Nothing is truer than the statement made in the movie “Forrest Gump”. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get, but by sharing these chocolates together today _____ and _____ acknowledge this fact and proceed forward into their marriage prepared to deal with it all together.

I would like to incorporate god into this because I think it is very important to keep him close to your heart and help with your relationship. That you need to remember to pray as a family.. I was thinking something like white chocolate, and I have no idea what to say... But, I started writing this.. how does it sound??

Now Jeff please feed a piece of the white chocolate to Angel. And Angel give Jeff a piece of the white chocolate. These bites of chocolate represents the love of god and his strength that holds you together

Honestly, and I don't mean this as an insult so please don't be offended, but I think this idea is really weird. The chocolates, along with a little card explaining their significance, would make a really nice favor at your reception. During your ceremony, though, it just seems really, really weird to me. To bring God into a chocolate-eating ceremony is almost a little bit insulting to me, especially immediately following a sentence about Forrest Gump. I don't know...I'm not a fan of this idea at all, but I think it would be incorporated really well as a favor instead.

Ok, thank you Rosie. I respect your opinion and appreciate it. I am still using this unity ceremony but I will probably cut the Forrest Gump part. These exact words are what I found online, so they arent exactly right for me. But the white chocolate part would be right after the dark chocolate part.

My FH likes it. I told him it would be my luck to spill chocolate on my white dress.

Fyi- white chocolate isn't really chocolate. it's basically fake chocolate. not sure i'd want to make god, fake chocolate

Lol. Thank you.. We are getting like candy bars, one dark, one milk and maybe one white chocolate. And then just feeding each other a piece of it.

Lol, I never knew that mellojean. That is a great point. Thank you.

I guess I am going to opt out on the white chocolate and reword the wording. Thank you everyone!

I think that if it's special to the two of you then go for it! I like unique unity stuff, if I see one more candle, I'd probably blow it out!

Just tweak the wording a little bit and enjoy!

Now I want chocolate! You should give the different chocolate as a favor too.

Ok, I think I have the wording right for my unity ceremony. Tell me what you think,

Both Jeff and Angel share a love of chocolate. Today they are going to feed each other small bites of chocolate which are being used as a representation of what they expect out of their marriage.

Chocolate, in any of its forms, provides our bodies with nourishment. Chocolate not only feeds our bodies, it can also nourish our souls. Chocolate is a special treat that Angel and Jeff indulge in every once in a while to bring them joy or nourish their souls. Today, Jeff and Angel recognize that their marriage is also a sweet treat that will bring joy to their lives and nourish their souls.

Throughout your lives together you will have times that are like eating your favorite chocolates; sweet and filled with a favorite flavor: peanut butter, cream, or caramel. At other times you will experience the dark and bitter-sweet side of life, like the darkest of chocolates.

Jeff please take a piece of the dark chocolate and feed it to Angel. Now Angel, please feed Jeff a bite of the Dark chocolate.

Right now you both are experiencing the more bitter side of chocolate together. Just as in life you will have to experience those more bitter times together.

Jeff now take a piece of the milk chocolate and feed it to Angel.

And Angel, please feed Jeff a bite of the Milk Chocolate.

At this moment you are both experiencing the sweet side of chocolate together. These bites of chocolate represent the wonderful sweet life that you two will have together.

Angel and Jeff acknowledge the fact that life is both sweet and bitter but they proceed forward into their marriage prepared to deal with it all together

We are having a candy buffet that will have plenty of chocolate.. We are chocolate freaks (could eat it all the time.. lol)

I'm with Rosie, but do give it some more thoughts, I think you can make it work. Although, if I had an idea like that I'd provably be mixing the chocolates instead of feeding it to each other ( the feeding part can be incorporated some where in the reception) since you're relating it to life situations. Gud luck with it and please do post pics and maybe a short video after the wedding. I'd like to see it, please don't mess up the dress, lol

@Patricia - I think even the mixing of the (melted) dark "bitter" and milk "sweet" bits of chocolate. About how both are coming together in their marriage and representing how each will have to continue on through the bitter and sweet bits of their marriage. etc.

Basically like a using the sand as the unity candle almost. Does that make any sense?

Yes Christian

I agree with Rosie on this one. This is a very strange idea to have incorporated into the ceremony, imo. How will this potentially be preceived by the guests? This could easily come off as being very juvenile and as if you weren't taking things seriously. Personally, If I saw this in a wedding I would probably try not to laugh. Sorry if this offends you. To each his own I guess...

Weird... but to each there own i spose....

I don't really have any advice but I'm gonna say something. I think you're going to have a lot of people giving you weird looks when you do this. Like Nicole said, they might think it's a bit juvenile and like you aren't taking it seriously. Personally Ian and I wanted to do something we could have with us all the time. We stuck with the unity candles and they're sitting on a shelf in our living room. Every year on our anniversary we'll re-light them to remember our wedding day.

I personally am alittle sick of the sand and candle ceremonies. We are taking this seriously.. We both love chocolate, as it is said above and we wanted something different. We are getting married in a small church with aprox 70 ppl invited. And, I thought I could have chocolate favors at the reception and on our anniversary feed each other a piece of the same chocolates again.. Anyways, thank you everyone for your opinions I appreciate them. I guess I have some rethinking to do and I will repost when I have taken these comments into my own.

I personally LOVE the idea! and i think the white choc. representing the love o god would be cool. even though its not really chocolate, its not a HUGE deal....i dont think people will really thing "ohhh shame on them its not really chocolate!" maybe get a white chocolate cross, dove..something religious and put that in a big vase, then add chips of chocolate to the vase to represent the fact there are going to be the bitter times, or the sweet times, but you have to keep god in the center, and the foundation?