Customizing Your Wedding Ceremony | North Carolina Wedding Planner

Customizing your wedding ceremony can be fun and there are so many great and unique ways for you and your fiance to create your perfect wedding ceremony. Here are some of our favorite ideas.


Unity Candle: The Unity candle ceremony involves three candles. The first candle symbolizes the bride, the second the groom, and the middle candle represents the union of the two (their marriage). Often the mothers of the bride and groom will light the smaller candles and the bride and groom will use those candles to light the middle candle.

{Victoria Souza Photography}

Sand Ceremony: Generally involves 3 glass vessels. One holds the bride's sand, one holds the groom's, and the third is empty. As the bride and groom pour their sand into the empty vessel, their sand mixes. Symbolizes the blending of two different beings, the bride and the groom, into a single, inseparable unit that is their marriage, the joining of their lives. Hard as it would be to separate out those grains of sand, that's how difficult it is to separate these two people. Perfect for a beach wedding or anywhere with a light breeze that may make it difficult to light a unity candle.

{Elizabeth Medina Photography}

Rope Ceremony: The Cord of Three Strands Ceremony symbolizes the joining of two people and God into a marriage relationship. By keeping God at the center of your marriage, His love will continue to bind the couple together.

{The Knot}

Honey Ceremony: During the honey ceremony  the bride and groom to each dip a finger into the honey, and are invited to taste the sweetness of the honey. This symbolizes how sweet you vow to be to each other every day of your marriage. This is great for destination weddings, since you could incorporate local honey and even provide this as favors to your guests.

{Reverend Kris}

Rose Ceremony:  The bride and groom exchange two red roses, symbolizing the giving and receiving of their love for each other throughout their entire married life. 

{Wedding Star}

 

 

 

 

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Honey Ceremony | North Carolina Wedding Planner

It seems like every couple is searching for the perfect way to make their ceremony unique. The unity candle used to be the perfect way to do that, but as more and more couples used that the “newness” has worn off. The sand ceremony seemed like the perfect solution for awhile but even that has lost some of it’s “uniqueness”.

So what can you do? How about a honey ceremony? I’m sure you thinking, “Well, what is a honey ceremony?” Well I’ll tell you.

{Message from Mike} 

During the ceremony you will have a small bottle of locally produced honey for you and your love to each dip a finger into. You are each invited to taste the sweetness of the honey. This is to symbolize that you vow to be sweet to each other every day of your marriage. This would be a great way to help customize your vows and pledge a love that is as sweet as honey.

And to tie it all in, you could give local honey products for your favors. What a great way for your guests to take home a piece of your wedding.

You could also incorporate this into your anniversary and share a taste of the same locally produced honey every year to renew your promise and remember your vows with your partner each year.

Here are a few tips for planning your own honey ceremony:

1. Avoid sticky fingers – have small spoons to taste the honey instead of dipping your fingers

2. If you’re having a destination wedding, remember to provide favors smaller than the required size for airline carry-on baggage.

3. Be sure to talk to your Officiant about the honey ceremony. They may even have a few ideas to help personalize it even more.

 

 

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