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The Sand ceremony can be a beautiful and meaningful addition to your wedding ceremony and usually occurs after the wedding ring exchange. Simply find a large wide-mouthed container to pour the sand into, and smaller containers to pour the sand from. As the officiant performs the reading, the participants pour the small containers of sand into the larger container, one at a time. The Sand ceremony is also a wonderful way to include your children or other family members in your wedding ceremony. In the Family Unity Sand Ceremony, each family member pours a different color sand into the center container, symbolizing each individual joining and being blended into the new family. Each of the readings below can be easily modified to suit a family unity ceremony. |
GRAINS OF SAND You have just sealed your relationship by the giving and receiving of rings. This beautiful union is symbolized through the combining of these two individual containers of sand. The sand closest to BRIDE represents who she is... her personality, individuality, values and all of her life experiences that have made her the woman she is today. The sand nearest GROOM represents who he is... his ideals, thoughts, passion and life trials that have made him that stands before you. Each container holds its own unique beauty, strength, and character. They can stand on their own and be whole, without need of anything else. However when these two are blended together they create a new and extraordinarily more intricate entity. Each grain of sand brings to the mixture a lasting beauty that forever enriches the combination. Please pour the sand into this common container to symbolize the union of your two lives. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage be a molding of two individual personalities, bonded together forming one heart and one love. The life that each of you experienced individually, before this moment, will hereafter be inseparably united, for the two shall become one. |
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THE FAMILY UNITY SAND CEREMONY GROOM and BRIDE , today as you have sealed your commitment to each other by the giving and receiving of rings, you too make a commitment to CHILD(REN) and your new family. We lovingly recognize the significant role that CHILD(REN) play in this marriage celebrated today. They will now join BRIDE and GROOM in a commitment to each other and their new blended family. Today, this beautiful family relationship is symbolized through the pouring of these (xx) individual containers of sand, each representing a member of this family. The separate bottles of sand symbolize your separate lives, separate families and separate sets of friends. They represent all that you were, all that you are and all that you’ll ever be as individuals. As these containers of sand are poured into the common united family container, the individual containers of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your new family be. |
SAND CEREMONY PACKAGE Let me help you save time and provide For $50 (up to 4 people / $5 each addt'l), ...and the jar of blended sand CLICK HERE TO CHOOSE YOUR If you choose to gather your own supplies, |
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THE SEVEN SEAS GROOM and BRIDE, you have just sealed your relationship by the giving and receiving of rings, and this is a pledge between two people who agree that they will commit themselves to one another throughout their lives. Today, this relationship is symbolized through the pouring of these two individual containers of sand. One, representing you, GROOM and all that you were, all that you are, and all that you will ever be, and the other representing you, BRIDE, and all that you were and all that you are, and all that you will ever be. As these two containers of sand are poured into the third container, the individual containers of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated, our prayer for you today is that your lives together be blended like the seven seas and may your love be strong, beautiful and endless. |
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD There is a song that speaks of “a long and winding road” and before you met, your lives were on such a road... each going in different directions and seemingly leading to different destinations. But somewhere along the way you took a fork in the road to a destination called “love” and today you find yourselves standing together at the entrance of a new path that will join your once separate journeys into one. Before each of you there is a container of sand. Each container represents the separate journeys you once were on. They also represent your own sets of friends and families that once were apart. I will ask that in a moment you both blend your individual container of sand together... representing the coming together of your friends and family, through your marriage, into one. And as the sand is blended into one container, your once solitary journeys will now be one of companionship, as you walk a single path together into your future. I now ask that you blend your containers of sand together. As the sand has blended together, your lives are now joined. Your friends and families are as one as well, for now you will share those who are in your lives and will walk hand-in-hand along the path of your marriage… united and strong as husband and wife. |
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