Unity Ceremonies- what are you doing?

I've done a blessing stone ceremony where the guests put their wishes for the couple upon stones and at the end of the ceremony everyone tosses their stones into the Gulf of Mexico.

We are doing a wine blending ceremony (but not writing a letter or anything). Our first date was at a wine bar, I used to have a wine-tasting group, and I sell wine part time, so it fits for us. We each picked a favorite varietal and will combine them into one carafe and toast each other with the blended wine during the ceremony.

We are thinking about doing a knot ceremony. "Tying the knot" so to speak. We would tie a fishermans knot - The saying is '"It’s the strongest knot. The rope will break before the knot comes undone and the knot only gets tighter with pressure.

Since he loves to fish and took me for the first time in years... I really like the idea. My thought is then we could put the knot in a shadow box or something like that and put it in our home.

We are having a Unity Candle.. i know boring.. but both of our parents had it at their wedding and i always liked looking at my parents (they kept it on a shelf in their room) so i wanted one to keep too and now ive seen the burn it down so far an put in a tealight or oil candle idea so i can "burn it" on special occasions like anniversaries.

I'm not certain that we are doing one.... I can't think of one that would be right for us :/

Not doing one. I absolutely HATE the symbolism there. We're two separate people. Our lives are already about as "blended" as they're going to be, until we have kids, I guess.

We are doing a sand ceremony, mainly because it is family tradition. I also like the idea of a ring warming ceremony, but that's not really a unity ceremony.

I don’t know if this is what you are talking about but we are doing the wine box and love letter ceremony. Where you write a letter to each other, put it in a box with a bottle of wine and two wine glasses, and store it away until our 5th anniversary together. I would also like the parents, grandparents, and bridal party to write something to us or put something special in the box if they want to. I think it’s a really special idea. We aren’t writing our own vows and the letters to each other symbolize our private vows written to each other. I like the idea, it’s definitely for us.

FH wants us to take a shot at the alter... Not happening

Julie, remind me not to let FH see this thread....

"Oh COME ON!!! it'd be greeaaaat!! haw haw haw!"

I can already hear it...

I would like to do one at our ceremony but can't think of anything other than the typical. I may just have the officiant say a nice poem or something.

We didn't do one. Our attitude was that the entire marriage ceremony was a "unity ceremony," so we didn't need to add anything for that.

We chose a Unity Cross ceremony. I just ordered it today! I honestly don't "get" the sand thing unless you're at a beach and the candle was not exciting to me...

Lmao @ Julie! Why did you say no? That would be hilarious!

I think we're doing a Rock Ceremony, or the Bowl of Blessings. Each guest receives a rock and a bowl is passed around where everyone places their rock in the bowl with their blessing. We would put our rocks in first so all the blessings fall onto us. We then would use the "bowl of blessings" as a nice centerpiece in our dining room or somewhere else in our house. We live in CO and our wedding will be in the "Rockies" so it kind of all fits together. We are not allowed to have flame outside and I'm kind of over the sand idea. I definitely want some kind of unity ceremony simplely because a close friend of ours is going to play guitar during this part of the ceremony.

We're not doing one. I think the wedding is enough of a unity ceremony.