Ring Blessing by Guests

Miracle520

We are hoping to have our guests bless our rings. I found a gorgeous blessing dish to use (see below). My only issue is that we have 200 guests. I worry about how long it will take to pass the dish around to everyone.

Would it be distracting to the rest of the ceremony to explain the blessing early in the ceremony and let the dish rotate around the guests during other parts of the ceremony?

My only other idea is to place the dish on a table near the ceremony entrance and put up a little sign.

Any other ideas or thoughts? TIA

kayelily

As a wedding officiant, I do the ring blessing often. Yes, we do it at the beginning of the ceremony just after the Words of Welcome. I explain that the couple would love to have all the guests infuse their rings with their blessings. Then I hand the rings (should be tied together with a ribbon or tied to a ring blessing dish that has a hole that the ribbon goes through to attach rings to dish) to the best man who hands them to the bride's parents. The rings are passed row by row down the bride's side then someone at the back of the aisle makes sure the rings jump to the groom's side in the rear and make their way up to the front row of groom's side where they are handed back to the best man. Then later on, when I ask for the rings he has them and passes them to me. There is plenty of time to pass the rings because the rings are not needed for the exchange until after the wedding addres and vows, more than 1/2 way through the ceremony. It is really quite a sweet ritual. Here is a wedding on my blog and they called it a Ring Warming Ceremony: http://raleighweddingblog.blogspot.com/search?q=terrell