The Wedding Sand Ceremony symbolizes your love and unity

The wonderful thing about the wedding sand ceremony is that at the end of it all, the jar with the mixed sands can be taken home and displayed as a permanent reminder of the couple’s special vows and new life together. With each anniversary and Valentine’s Day celebration, the jar will be a constant icon of love that can be showcased over and over again.

To personalize a Unity Sand Ceremony, some couples invite their family members to bring along their own colored sand. They can then take turns pouring their sands into the unity jar. This represents their lives being included into the new life that is being created. This, of course, is not compulsory for all sand ceremonies.

Till today, the origin of the unity sand ceremony is unconfirmed. Some say it is a Native American tradition while other believe it to be a Hawaiian cultural practice. Whichever it is, it has become a symbolic ritual during weddings and commitment ceremonies.

There may also be unity candles during a sand ceremony. These candles are mainly for effect purposes to sit atop the sand in all three sand jars. Normally ivory white in color, they may also be of different contrasting colors to the sands to act as a highlight. For added shimmer, a touch of glitter can be added to the candles, which are normally either short candles or tea light size.

Personalized jars are also possible – first names of the bridal couple can be engraved onto the unity jar along with other wedding details or phrases, like wedding date and venue.

These types of sand ceremony unity candles kits are perfect for outdoor weddings. Just like any other unity candle ceremony held indoors, unity candles for outside weddings are lit up first separately. The both candles are pitched together to light a bigger one usually positioned in the centre. The two individual candles can then be blown out or left lit for the rest of the ceremony.