The Unity Sand Ceremony

If you want to add a nice meaningful touch to your wedding ceremony, consider adding a sand ceremony. It is popular down here on the beach and is much like the unity candle ceremony that you may have seen in a church wedding.

The idea behind it goes back to biblical times when covenants were made between two parties and the blending of each parties’ sand indicated their pledge to the covenant they made.

Just as it would be impossible to undue and extract the individual grains of sand back to their original vessel, so it would be impossible to undue the covenant and its change upon the lives involved.

The sand ceremony isn’t just for a beach wedding, but is also good for formal or indoor ceremony. Unlike the unity candle, the blended sand remains in your vase, just you poured it during your ceremony, so you can preserve it at home to tell the story to your grandchildren.

A Good Way to Involve Children…

Most couples use the sand at the beach and bring glass containers with them. However, you can use color sand and even involve children by using several colors of sand.

Want me to get the items together for you?

If you would like me to gather the items for your sand ceremony, I can do that for you. All I ask is that you give me at least a week notice and throw a little extra into my honorarium to help cover that expense. I can get you blue and pink sand, or several colors if you plan to include your children in the ceremony, and glass vessel to blend the sand in.

Want to know where you can go to get what you need?

Arts and craft stores like Micheal’s, Hobby Lobby, have color sand. You can get a nice vase or glass vessel at Wal-Mart, or that big Pottery store, whatever its name is, but the one with miles of glass, wood, and metal stuff.

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