Something other than the lighting of the candles

Ashley Cox · August 2012

My fiance and I do not like the tradiotnal lighting of the unity candles, but we want something to resmble "unity" in our relationship. We have witnessed the pouring of the sand and was not a fan of that either. Any other ideas?

GoodLuckBear14 · August 2012

Colored water

jenlynn426 · August 2012

we aren't big on the candles or sand either. i saw on pinterest a couple who did a knot tying. it was a fisherman's knot and it was something along the lines of this is the strongest knot possible, and that the ropes would break before the knot could be broken. i think that we are going to do this.... i just can't find any wording for it! it fits with our wedding nicely, we are doing the whole country rustic thing and i'm cheesey and like the whole literally "tying the knot" thing

good luck finding something though!!

Peledreamsofrain · August 2012

We were in your exact predicament, and settled on a wine ceremony. The version we chose is taking a white wine glass and a red wine glass, each person adds it to the decanter, then it's poured back out as a rose (sign of combined lives), then you link arms and drink.

We are also going to have the dinner champaigne toast done with rose champaign just to tie everything together. And the decanter and glasses are etched and personalized, so we can pull them out on our anniversaries and toast each other.

ReneguardJC7 · August 2012

My fiance and I are both huge nerds so instead of a candle or sand we decided on something that showed our personality a little more.

We both love retro gaming (and collect systems) so we're going to have an original NES (nintendo) up there with us and we are both going to plug in a controller to show that from now on we'll be in "2-player mode" so to speak

Ashley Cox · August 2012

Thanks for all of the ideas!

xovkatevox · August 2012

My FI and I are going to use watering cans to water a plant at our ceremony. We will each have a watering can and then water the plant together, symbolizing our new life together which we will plant when we get a new home.

Unicorn81 · August 2012

our ceremony is outside so we can't do the candle lightling.

I'm not a big fan of the sand either. We may do the release of the doves, I think thats a neet idea

snowdaisy822 · August 2012

We are doing a wine and letter box. I'm not a fan of the unity candle.

My FI and I love beer and our 3rd date was at brewfest here in our town. We really wanted to mix 2 beers together and drink that, but my parents didn't like that idea at all, so we were shut down.

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