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If you’re planning a wedding and plan to have a unity candle as part of the ceremony, you might want to think outside the box.

Traditionally, the unity candle involves three candles. The bride has one, the groom the other, and their two lighted candles light the third candle. This is achieved to stand for the coming of these two people to make one unit. In a few alternate methods, relatives are invited to take part in the unity candle lighting, often the mums of the bride and bridegroom, or other close members of the family unit. Each family then lights a candle, and together they light the unity candle to symbolize of the getting together of the families.

Now, there are a few twists you can contribute to this fairly conventional aspect of a wedding ceremony in a church. You can supply each guest with an unlit candle when they get to the ceremony. After the happy couple lights the unity candle, they can ask the guests to move to the front of the church (or wherever the ceremony is being held) and light their candles with the lighted unity candle. This can take a bit of time and may well be best with a smaller guest list. But it is a meaningful way to not just get your invited guests mixed up in ceremony itself, but also symbolize the union of friends and family with the marriage.

If there is a large guest list and it may be a prohibitive waste of time to do a candle lighting involving everyone at the ceremony, some brides and grooms like to bring the unity candle to the reception. Light the candle again and provide each guest with a small votive candle (the candle holder will be on the tables at individual table settings). As guests come into the reception area or hall, they can light their votive and take it to their table to place into the votive holder. This small votive candle can double as a wedding favor gift, especially if you decorate or enhance a plain votive candleholder in some way to coordinate with your wedding.

Naturally, you can forget having a unity candle at the ceremony altogether. Lots of brides these days are trying to reduce the length of the ceremony and spend more time planning the reception. In that light, some choose to get rid of a unity candle altogether. You can certainly do this, or you can cut it out of the ceremony and get it into the reception.

To do this, you can utilize the votive candle option suggested above, or you can merely incorporate the unity candle lighting into the reception pursuits themselves. For instance, you could choose a quiet moment in the reception to possess a lighting of the unity candle. It may well be during a short prayer before the serving of the meal, or right before the cake is cut. In this case, the unity candle can then be used as decoration on the cake table. As the bride and groom cut the cake and pieces are helped guests, the candle can also serve as an aid to your memory of the couple’s new bond and that the bond is shared with every guest as well.

Although having a unity candle at the marriage ceremony or reception isn’t necessary, it is certainly an option that many brides and grooms opt to include. But it is essential to understand that as with so much surrounding wedding planning there are fashions to make it unique and interesting and special to the pair getting married.

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