Rituals within Marriage Ceremonies


Ring Ceremony

Your gift to each other for your wedding day has been your wedding rings which shall always be an outward demonstration of your vows of love and respect and a public showing of your commitment to each other. You now have the most honourable title of man and wife.


Rose Ceremony

Usually done after the couple are pronounced man and wife. Simple yet profoundly moving, two roses may be exchanged symbolising the giving and receiving of love for each other through their entire married life.


Hand Fasting

An ancient Celtic Tradition that may have been related to the infinity symbol created when the couple cross hands in a figure '8' and bind ribbon across the new wedding rings. A symbol of the unbroken circle of love, love freely given and freely received.


Unity Candles

The flame of this candle burns steadily and bright, lighting your way forward in the world as two united as one.   You both are charged with keeping the light bright for the rest of your days, acknowledging that sometimes it may flicker and dim when life's bluster becomes too strong. Yet know that what sustains it is the very air we breathe - life unto life.


Sand Ceremony

Has several symbolic features: one can imagine the sand as the foundation of the place each partner has come from - you have sealed your relationship by the giving and receiving of rings, creating this union.   Two beings as one relationship is symbolised through the pouring of these two individual bowls of sand into one vessel, the individual bowls of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined as one. You are one, never to be separated.