Sand Ceremony vs Unity Candle

We are doing the sand ceremony as we can't have open flame in our venue. I mean is there really a difference? One just lights the min candle with the smaller ones and the other intermingles the different bodies of sand into 1.

I guess there isnt a difference lol. I didnt know if there was a different meaning.
Im doing sand

We did a sand ceremony too.

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We are doing the Unity Cord instead -- i ordered this on Etsy! It's based on Ecclesiastes 4:9-13.

They are all intended to generally mean the same thing. Cord, sand, candle.

There is no difference between a sand or candle unity ceremony. They represent the same thing. If you wanted to include more people you could do a reverse unity candle ceremony which is what we did. We lit the unity candle and then started the chain of having each of our guests' candles lit.