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In these modern times, many brides and grooms are using wedding planners or are using someone who is putting together elopement packages. Spending considerably more time concerned with the venue and the reception planning than they do about the ceremony.
I think the more important question that the bride and groom should be asking is “What is the flow of the ceremony going to be?”
Make your ceremony Special
Handfasting is actually a very traditional thing to do at weddings and depending on where you go to do your studies. Interesting is a Scottish tradition and in handfasting.
During the wedding ceremony, the bride and the groom join their hands together and there are loops of rope loops, ribbon loops, or some material that are wrapped around them. And each one of those loops there is a promise that goes with it. And as we put the ribbon or the coil around the wrists, we say This is what this promising record recommends or suggests. And then after they’re done, there is a way to tie a knot and they pull their hands apart and others are not in between. So the visual is that they even promise together they’ve tied the knot, it’s a really, really neat tradition.
With sand blending and there are three containers, two smaller containers, and a larger center container.
During the ceremony, the couple steps off to the side and starts to pour the sand together. The symbolism is there are two very distinct colors. When you pour it in, you can still make out those colors, but you can never separate those colors again. So like the interest, the symbolism, there’s longevity. There’s an eternal nature to your wedding vows. Do something special at your wedding, something that means something to you.
If a couple has children and if they want the kids involved in some way, I think they ought to be asking the question, how can we best involve the children?
If saying you want to have a two-year-old involved, they have to be held, and then they get squiggly while they’re being held. That doesn’t help the wedding ceremony.
I think that some thought ought to be given to how the children can be used nicely in a wedding ceremony. I would be happy to offer some advice that may help make the wedding more pleasant.