Love similarly would be hard to describe to someone who had never experienced it before, except to say there is always visible evidence of it when it exists…and you can feel its warmth.īRIDE and GROOM, as a symbol of the union of your separate selves, please now light the Unity Candle. The best you might do is to say that there is always plain evidence of it when it exists, and that you can feel its warmth. It would be difficult to explain, because it is both substance and energy at the same time. Imagine how you might describe fire to someone who had never experienced it before. Two fires, separate and individual, uniting their flames to burn as one. One of the most beautiful and expressive is the Unity Candle.” There are many traditions and rituals commonly included in marriage ceremonies. You have chosen the common commitment of sharing your lives, your hearth and your home together. Its’ dancing flame symbolizes the beauty and vitality of the love that has brought BRIDE and GROOM here today, which will enrich and sustain their lives through the years ahead.īRIDE and GROOM will now light the outside candles representing the light of their individual selves.īRIDE and GROOM, as together you now light the single candle, while leaving the separate candles burning, may it be known to all that you are individuals, each unique and different. We kindle this light in harmony with all that is good in life. It is also associated with the security of home and family, as the warmth of the hearth and the home fires.” Unity Candle Ceremony 6įire is believed by many to represent passion and purity. They signal their desire to not only join as one in their union but to also unite two families together as one.įrom every human being there rises a light and when two souls that are destined for each other find one another, their streams of light flow together and a single, brighter light goes forth from their united being. They have also asked their families to participate in the lighting ceremony. Unity Candle Ceremony 5īRIDE and GROOM have chosen to affirm their love by the lighting of a unity candle. Please pick up the lighted candles and together light the center candle. Lighting the center candle represents that your two lives are now being joined together as one. Unity Candle Ceremony 4īRIDE and GROOM, the two separate candles symbolize your separate lives, separate families and separate sets of friends, in other words, your lives before today. This is also a symbolic reminder that while we are all one with God, as you are now within your marriage, you still maintain your own sparks of the divine. This is a glowing reminder that in a true marriage, your lives are both individual and together as one. They show that you are committed to taking action with regard to your promises.Īt this time, I’d like each of you to take a candle and together ignite the larger one to flame. It is a well-known phrase that actions speak louder than words.Īctions, such as the rituals performed today for your wedding ceremony - holding hands, carrying flowers, and exchanging rings – convey deep symbolic meaning. May it give you courage and reassurance in darkness warmth and safety in the cold and strength and joy in your bodies, minds, and spirits. This candle is also a candle of Unity because both must come together, giving a spark of themselves, to create the new light.Īs you light this candle today, may the brightness of the flame shine throughout your lives. This candle before you is a candle of Commitment because it takes two people working together to keep it aflame. Its fire is magical because it represents the light of two people in love. This candle you are about to light is a candle of Marriage. You also bring the warmth, strength and wisdom of your family’s fire as kindling for your own.Īs BRIDE and GROOM, your flames are separate, yet they feed the same fire.įrom this day onward, may you bask in the beauty of the light of your love, may its light shine bright and steady upon your path together and may its heat keep you warm through all the days of your lives and beyond. Unity Candle Ceremony 1īRIDE and GROOM, together as you light this candle of unity, you symbolize the flame of your own individual selves joining to ignite the partnership of marriage. Lighting a Unity Candle during your wedding ceremony is a special way to symbolize your two lives joining together as one.
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