Unity Candle Alternative??

The most common response i heard was unless there is a significant meaning behind an idea you two already had in mind or religious ceremony, than don't try to fit something in at that point. Just the ceremony alone is sacred enough

Now on another note, I've heard of a cute idea. It's putting a bottle of wine into a keepsake box and two letters you wrote to each other, and seal away the box for your first anniversary.

We're doing a wine ceremony!!

Did you ask specifically about having a unity candle ceremony? Some venues won't allow unattended open flames but will allow a unity candle ceremony. If it i something you want it is worth asking directly.

I'm torn, because while I'm not doing any of that you seem to want to. Isn't there a sand thing that people do?

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We did a fisherman's knot.

It's okay to skip any kind of unity ceremony if you don't find one that is meaningful to you and your FS. It's optional and really only makes sense if it's meaningful to the two of you.

Love lock ceremony. Look it up, it's pretty cool!

I'm planning on doing a sand ceremony instead. That might work for you. That or like a pp mentioned write love letters to each other to be read on your first anniversary. If you wanted you could even write new letters on your anniversary to be read the following year, etc.

We did a handfasting and I loved it. We also considered a sand ceremony, and a tree planting ceremony because we got married on Arbor Day.

Hand fasting, sand, or do the unity candle at your reception just before the first dance.

We are doing unity sand.

Unity sand?

We are getting married. That is our unity ceremony

We did a wine box ceremony. We will either drink the wine and read our letters if we are on hard times and thinking about splitting up, or read, drink, and replace every 5 years. I don't like the ones that "end" after a year or 5 or 10, because the goal is to do this for life, so 5 years is a relatively minor accomplishment by that standard.

Since most of my weddings are on the beach, we frequently do the unity sand. But, I've also done handfastings, the unity cross, unity candle, watering a potted tree or orchid or flat of wildflower seeds, the hand ceremony, love locks, blessing shell or stone toss (into the Gulf), and recently did my first bottle of wine & love letters in a box.

We did a sand ceremony. We had a beach wedding so it totally fit.

We're not doing anything. Our officiant is going to talk, and then we'll say our vows, exchange rings, and walk out

Personally I skipped it. I felt they didn't fit into my ceremony since I'm not religious and it wasn't me or my husband! We did do a hand holding ceremony that I wrote. We held hands as it was read. It was more meaningful.

We did a sand ceremony, but only because we met at the beach. You don't need to have a "unity ceremony" because the wedding ceremony is already about unity.

We are doing a sand ceremony. I wouldn't mind skipping it all together but i have a son from a previous marriage and my fiance and I have a daughter, so we are doing a family ceremony in a frame.