Ring Warming Ceremony

I have actually never heard of this before. Aren't you worried it will take forever and people might get antsy about waiting for it to come from the back to the front. What if someone drops it, it rolls and then who is chasing it? Really interested in hearing from people who have done it too.

I originally loved this idea too, but our officiant warned that it would take too long. We also had about 100 guests. DH (who is not normally a germaphobe) was also grossed out by everyone touching his ring. He threatened to have a bottle of purell at the altar to dip it in when it came back.

I like the idea, but I feel like it would take too long.

I'm following this too. We're starting ours before the ceremony, as people sit down and are waiting. We're hoping it won't take more than the 20ish minutes to get through everyone but we have a "ringmaster" to keep the ring moving

If it would take too long, what about passing the rings through the family aisles and then your wedding party? Your VIPs and those you really want to include.

You don't stop the ceremony for this. You start them at the beginning, when you welcome the guests, you deputize someone to follow them up and down the aisle, and they'll be back in time. Of course, it depends on the length of the ceremony. 100 is manageable if your ceremony isn't six minutes long.

And if they aren't back? Your officiant asks for them and jokes that if 'you didn't have a chance to make a wish on the rings, you make sure that you hold both of their hands with both of those rings and make a wish on them during the reception".

I've never had any of the problems mentioned, and I've done hundreds of these. You put them in a little bag so they're not rolling around by themselves.

We did this but only for the family in the first two rows or so (parents, siblings, grandparents) at our officiants suggestion. He continued to explain what was happening and by the time he was done talking (maybe 2 minutes later) we had the rings back.

ETA: ours were in a little bag.

ETA2: pictures that show DH husband holding the little bag with our rings.

I'm having a ring warming ceremony. We are putting the rings into a special small bag and starting this at the beginning of the ceremony. We are having about 90 guests that will be seated in a spiral so the rings will make it back to us by the time we do our vows and rings.

I started drafting up our ceremony script and did intro it at the very beginning after the welcome, and we plan on having one of our Junior Groomsmen being in charge of moving it along. We will start with our parents and siblings and try to get them as far as possible.

We just really love the idea and want to make it work.

I did order a cute, personalized bag from Etsy to place them in.

Both my brothers did this at their recent weddings. At my younger brother's (about 100) people, the rings didn't make it around-- no biggie. The officiant just said, "Wherever the rings are, could you please pass them to the front?"-- and at my baby brother's wedding (150 guests) last August, they *did* make it around-- maybe cause a bunch of us had been to the other wedding so were quicker with the passing.

Anyway, these were the first and second times I saw this tradition and I really liked it. I thought it was well worth the pause as we waited for the rings to be passed up front. And, FWIW, my younger brother is quite large and his wife is quite petite-- their rings were just tied together with ribbon, and so *quite* visible and the contrast in size between hers and his was cute!

I wouldn't be worried about the length of time... I'd be worried about the bacteria... *shudders*

I really love this idea and want to do it super badly. We are inviting 200 guests, and our officiant warned us that it would probably take too long. She tried to steer us way from it and instead suggested a quiet moment during the ceremony for guests to lift up positive thoughts, well-wishes, prayers/blessings, etc. I saw this variation on the ring warming and I think I am going to bring it up during our full ceremony-writing meeting. Instead of having the guests pass the rings around, you place them near the entrance to the ceremony space. As guests enter, they have a chance to "warm" the rings. Then someone retrieves them right before the ceremony starts.

I found this ceremony and also loved it, but with almost 200 guests struggled to see how it would be possible!

What we've decided to do, is have just our wedding party standing up with us hold the rings, while our officiants express aloud some statements of goodwill "may you...".

We're explaining it during the ceremony that "while the wedding party standing up with L & G will warm the rings in their hands, we ask each of you here today to warm them in your hearts, silently offering your good wishes for the couple"

The wedding isn't until next month, but we hope it will work well!