The Unity Sands Ceremony is known all over the world for its beauty and sanctity. Couples add this ceremony to their weddings as an alternative to the Unity Candle Ceremony because it so elegantly captures the meaning of their two lives becoming one. And it creates a lasting keepsake of that special day.
Using different colored sands, the bride and groom each take turns filling a Unity Vase as they recite their chosen vows. The sand colors can be coordinated with your home décor, chosen based on colors you love personally or for any other special reason that is meaningful to you. At the end of the ceremony, the vase is taken home and sits atop a shelf, a table or a mantle, beautifully symbolizing the start of your new life together.
In a lovely twist on tradition, some of our couples ask us to read an Apache Wedding Prayer. We recite the blessing and then place it into the bottle.
Apache Prayer for couple final blessing
{Grooms name} and {bride's name},
Now you will feel no rain,
For each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold,
For each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no more loneliness,
For each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two bodies,
But there is one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling place,
To enter into the days of your togetherness.
And may your days be good and long upon the earth.
I then slip the written Apache Blessing into the bottle, they cork it.
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Sample Ceremony Vows #1
Officiant: {Grooms name} and {bride's name} as you pour your sand into the one container, please repeat after me: “As these grains of sand merge together as one, I merge my life with yours. Please take my love throughout the sands of time. My heart is forever in your keeping. |
Sample Ceremony Vows #2
Officiant: {Grooms name} and {bride's name} as these grains of sand are joined together, so are your hearts, your bodies and your souls in marriage. Please repeat after me: (Here the nuptial pair may add whatever vows they wish….) |
Sample Ceremony Vows #3
My beloved {Grooms/Bride's name} as these grains of sand are joined together, so are our hearts, our bodies and our souls. I offer myself as your husband/wife forever.”
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