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If you would like a "Unity" ceremony within your wedding ceremony and the wedding is going to be outside, you might want to consider this beautiful alternative to a Unity Candle ceremony. Candle ceremonies outside are at the mercy of the wind and elements and sometimes don't work. But with a "Sand Ceremony" there is nothing to blow out. The wording and symbolism is the same as in a Unity Candle ceremony, but the couple blends two containers of sand into a single container instead of lighting two candles and using them to light a unity candle. If you want, you can use colored sand and blend the sand in layers... keeping the unity container as a souvenir of this part of your wedding. There are many versions of this ceremony available and, as with all my ceremonies, the final wording used depends on the feed-back I get from the couple. The ceremony below is only an example and may or may not be the one used in your ceremony.

SAND CEREMONY

At the instruction of the officiant, the couple moves to a table holding two small containers of sand and a larger, empty container.

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.

The couple picks up their individual containers of sand and blend them together.

As the sand has blended together, your lives are now joined. Your friends and family 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.