Unity Cocktail

SFlvr83

My fiance and I are doing a unity cocktail in our ceremony, and I really need help coming up with wording and ideas. We were trying to think of something that would go with our colors (black and lime green), but I am having difficulty coming up with a cocktail idea. And I am horrible when it comes to thinking of the symbolism of the ingredients! HELP!!!

shaina925

I just saw them do that on the TLC show Four Weddings!  They used red and blue.

Tami87

I also just saw this on four weddings. If you want to use your colors maybe you can do blue and yellow to make lime green. Not sure what would be best to use that would actually taste good. Maybe UV blue and lemonade? Or UV blue and mountain dew soda, that was a favorite of my group in college (the blue dew).

On the show they also had this unity cocktail as their signature drink. So I guess that's an idea. As for symbolism of the ingredients... I really have no idea about this. I would say you don't even need this, the two individual colors mixing to make a new color is enough symbolism for me.

aragx6

So it's like a sand ceremony, but with booze?

Avion22

Are you serious, or joking?  I honestly can't tell.

I REALLY don't mean to be rude, but if you're serious about doing this, it's about the weirdest thing I have ever heard of.  If I went to a wedding and the B&G did this I would probably hightail it out of the ceremony and skip the reception.  There is NOTHING solemn or ceremonius about mixing a cocktail, and honestly I think it makes light of the solemn nature of getting married and saying vows.

However, I think it's a FANTASIC idea for a reception.  It sounds like fun, especially if this could be your "signature cocktail" for the night.

Avion22

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_ceremony-ideas_unity-cocktail?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:10Discussion:37a2243d-d157-492a-a663-1b3e8f72b91cPost:991fba15-46f6-4fdc-9541-30e53d81ca0c">Re: Unity Cocktail</a>:
[QUOTE]Avion, it's based in the Wine Ceremony, which is symbolic of the couple sharing their first meal.  In some cultures (including at least one American Indian tribe) a couple was married if they moved in together and shared a meal. We had a toasting ceremony that used water from the 200+ year old natural spring at an ancestral family home site.
Posted by RetreadBride[/QUOTE]

<div>Maybe I'm just not picturing it right (I live in the UK and only get the UK version of Four Weddings, and no David Tutera).....it just seems like you'd be shaking up a cocktail in a cocktail mixer....I'm pictureing like from the movie "Cocktail"....just doesn't seem very fitting with a wedding ceremony.  Am I missing something?</div>

OliveOilsMom

Perhaps you could do a flavored margarita.  The margarita will be green and if you add a dark colored liquid, like pomegranet juice (which could appear black) you would be marrying your wedding colors.  And have a delicious pomegranet margarita.

mbaete

 A mix of Hpnotiq, Hennessy, pineapple juice, sour apple schnapps, will make a lime green drink (incredible hulk). and Blavod makes a black vodka,  might be able to make a matching cocktail out of this.

mrszeno34

Midori is bright green also...

Tami87

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_ceremony-ideas_unity-cocktail?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:10Discussion:37a2243d-d157-492a-a663-1b3e8f72b91cPost:bb5cba13-72f9-4b6e-9f16-f739676de26a">Re: Unity Cocktail</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unity Cocktail : Maybe I'm just not picturing it right (I live in the UK and only get the UK version of Four Weddings, and no David Tutera).....it just seems like you'd be shaking up a cocktail in a cocktail mixer....I'm pictureing like from the movie "Cocktail"....just doesn't seem very fitting with a wedding ceremony.  Am I missing something?
Posted by Avion22[/QUOTE]

No you are not missing anything. At least this is pretty much exactly how they did it on the show. It wasn't a traditional ceremony at all. I agree with you, not my thing and it doesn't make the ceremony seem very serious. But to each their own I guess.

heatherfitz

i think this is a fantastic idea! unity candles, sand, and other traditions like those are so overdone. i think it'd be fun to do something different and that reflect the bride and groom's personalities. how can anyone be offended by that? you're not consummating the marriage right there on the altar, it's a cocktail for cripes sake!

 

others have listed good choices for the liquor colors. i wish you best of luck and fun!