Alternatives to Unity sand or candles

kikimarie25

Please help! We are having an outdoor ceremony in October with a rustic, woodsy theme. I would like to incorporate a unity element but I'm not sure how. I'm afraid candles will blow out and that unity sand looked great at my sister's beach wedding, but won't really suit our theme. Any suggestions?

amycannova

Unity cross is what we're doing. It's outdoors too. Google it!

medusia00

They have some rope ones too.

coralee715

What about getting colored corn?  (indian corn)  Not sure if you can buy the kernels seperately though.

shanny70

google alternatives to unity candle..lots of cool ideas, one with just a reading about "these hands" while you hold FI hands, use lanterns while outside

racingwedding

 use is a Truce Bell. A bell is rung on the wedding day, the happiest day of the couple's lives and then is placed in a central location in the home. If the couple starts to argue, one of them can ring the truce bell, reminding them both of that happiness and hopefully ending the disagreement quickly.

csm6144

We are doing the wooden box ceremony. It is such an awesome idea and plans for the future. Here is a site about it. http://www.woodenboxceremony.com/

HYDROPHILE

Red Wine and White Wine (assuming you don't plan on keeping the results of the "unity" - sand, etc.)

gingerchix1980

We're doing the rose ceremony. You exchange a rose with each other as your first gift as husband and wife, then each anniversary you get each other a rose and put it in a pre-determined place in the house. http://weddings.usabride.com/wedding-planning-advice/the-rose-ceremony/

graysquirrel

We're doing a wine box ceremony. We're placing a bottle of wine and letters to one another in the box to be opened on our anniversary. We will add new wine & letters each year. The goal is that we will have a life's treasury of letters to read when we get old and for the other to have when one of us eventually passes away. 

iluvmy0341

We are doing the wine box ceremony, except we're putting Crown Royal in it (neither of us drink wine and Crown is our fav liquor!).

FaithCaitlin

We will probably do a unity cross!

itybitymommy

We're doing a traditional celtic handfasting ceremony.

Kalithia

We are still determining what we want to do.

We were told by one friend that candles can be blown out so to use the sand.

Another friend told us to use some type of chemical waters that would change colors when we mixed them.  We are still debating what we want to do.

Wendt65451

Can you do both a "These Hands" and a rose ceremony? Or is that too much?

KarenLM

My niece is doing a version of the sand/candle ritual.  Instead of using sand, she will be using wax beads to pour into a vase (or mason jar with glass lid would work great for this - rustic and practical!),  Her husband will have one color wax beads and she will have another.  They will then add the wick and burn the candle later.  Once a melted layer of wax is on top, the beads should be secure in their design.  They can then light their candle on anniversaries, etc.

She foud the colored wax beads at Hobby Lobby.

amy7177

i like the water ceremony best

oma11ey

We are doing an oathing stone )