Making your ceremony, yours.
Your Ceremony
I will create a unique, one of a kind ceremony for you and your partner, one which your family and friends will remember for years to come. Your ceremony will include your personal love story, ceremony enhancements, vows and the exchange of your wedding rings.
Ceremony Enhancements
Wedding ceremony enhancements are personally chosen pieces to add to your ceremony. Popular enhancements include: Handfasting, Wine Box Tradition and Unity Candle Tradition.
The Tradition of Handfasting
Handfasting is an ancient Celtic custom, historically common in ancient Ireland and Scotland, in which two people came together at the start of their marriage or relationship. The couples hands are gently tied together with ribbon. Following this, pieces of coloured ribbons, each representing positive aspects of a loving, long, marriage, are added to the couples handfasting. This practice gave way to the expression "tying the knot" which has come to mean getting married or engaged.
Wine Box Tradition
This is a gorgeous and very popular enhancement. A wooden box containing the couples favourite bottle of wine and a love letter written by the bride and groom to each other is used. The letters describe the good qualities they find in each other and the reason they fell in love. The letters are sealed in individual envelopes and neither person in the couple has seen what each other has written. Should the couple find their marriage in hardship, they will open this box, sit and drink the wine together and then read the letters they wrote to each other. The hope is however, they should never need to open this box and instead they together, on their 5th wedding anniversary, the box be opened, the wine shared and the love letters be read and replenished until their 10th wedding anniversary.
Unity Candle Tradition
This enhancement allows the couple to get family involved in their ceremony. A parent or special family member are chosen by each person of the couple. The chosen family members then each light a candle. The couple together then light the unity candle using the flame ignited by their family member. This is to symbolise the joining of these two families through the medium of light.