Unity Ceremony

FH and I are planting a tree - we're both foresters, and we're using a buckeye tree since we met at Ohio State and using soil from both our childhood homes.

Were probably going to do a sand unity ceremony. I wanted to do a glass unity ceremony but it was too expensive to get all of the necessary equipment.

We are doing the 3 cords in place of a unity candle/sand

Handfasting in place of unity candle!

We heard about the tasting of the four elements, so I think we might do that!

https://www.trystanphotography.com/tips-and-tricks/great-wedding-ceremony-ideas-tasting-elements/

Lego heart where we put the last pieces on it at the ceremony.

We're doing the love letter ceremony. We write letters to each other (right before the ceremony) and lock it in a box with wine and glasses and open years later. Our officiant will lock the box during our ceremony.

We're doing an oathing stone as part of the ceremony

Handfasting ceremony! We are doing the 6 corded version

We're writing letters to each other before the ceremony, then putting them in a box with a bottle of wine to read on our first anniversary. I wanted to write our own vows, but FH knows me well enough to know I won't be able to get through it without crying my eyes out. So he suggested it and I loved it!

We did unity in glass. Loved it!!

Handfasting! We are each picking 3 colors that represent us then braiding them and then coming the two combinations

I just looked up that tasting elements thing. I'm all for unique and different ideas but wow that seems like a whole lot of not fun. No thank you. I don't want to be tasting cayenne pepper and vinegar in the middle of my ceremony

That glass is gorgeous!

We went for sand ceremony and included our kids. It was so nice. Yes it's done alot but the words with it were great. We were first then the kids then us again on top surrounding them in love and support etc

I'm incorporating part of a traditional Vietnamese wedding where FH and I pour tea for our parents and grandparents. This is supposed to show acceptance of our marriagr from the elders.

We are jumping the broom.

Doing cords of 3 strands ..... ordering it from Etsy!

Doing the Unity Cross. Beautiful and Unique.

We are doing a lot of glass, but not through a website. I recommend Bulleye glass for the frits and then the couple goes to a glass blowing or fusing workshop on their anniversary and make an art object. It isn't as monumental as the Unity in Glass piece, but it also doesn't cost 400.00......

We are doing a lot of handfastings this year, still the Wine and Words (wine box) and different variations on sharing; chocolate, tequila, scotch and soda, black and tan, sushi.