Sand Ceremony Reading :)

I like that one. Our Sand ceremony is simple. He is just explaining what the sands ceremony means. This is what he'll read.

Amber and Jamie will now perform the sands ceremony...

[prompts couple to go ahead to pour the sands]

Each one of them will pour their own sand in a common vase - the symbolism being that each one brings their life, experience, feelings and uniqueness into this marriage, the family they start here before you. The

united sands represent the love which they have for each other, the family they will build together, and, hopefully, the new life they will nurture

together.

“Mark and Amie, today you join your separate lives together. The two separate vessels of sand symbolize your separate lives, separate families and separate sets of friends. They represent all that you have been as an individual. They also represent your lives before today. As these two vessels of sand are poured into the third vessel, the individual vessels of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual vessels, so will your marriage be.”

Ana - ours is very similar:

(Name) and (Name),

Now you will feel no rain,

For each of you will be shelter to the other.

Now you will feel no cold,

For each of you will be warmth to the other.

Now there is no more loneliness,

For each of you will be companion to the other.

Now you are two bodies,

But there is one life before you.

Go now to your dwelling place,

To enter into the days of your togetherness.

And may your days be good and long upon the earth.

We are doing the sand ceremony with my FH's 8-year-old daughter. Our officiant will be reading the "Apache Blessing."