Ceremony
In this tradition, the couple (or their parent/friend) light a candle to...
Ceremony
This ceremony symbolises the union of two individual lives into one, through the pouring of sand/salt/earth into a vessel, to serve as a visual reminder of the wedding day. This is very suitable for blended families, or couples who have children already, and younger children tend to enjoy the visual and tactile effect of pouring the coloured sands. For couples who enjoy cooking together, two types of salt can be blended, and then brought home to be used in as seasoning for the meals they share together in the family home.
Ceremony
This is an old tradition whereby the couple exchange a coin, to symbolise...
Ceremony
This is a beautiful and significant way to pause at the beginning of your ceremony, to honour and remember those friends and family members from both sides of both families, who have gone before. We can keep it simple and open, or we can name their names, whatever feels right for you both. Our celebrants are very experienced, and will talk you through this in detail, as needed.
Lighting this candle is symbolic of all the light and the love they brought into the world, and the flame represents the memories of them that live on every time we call them to mind. If you choose to have a Unity/Family Candle ceremony later, we can take the flame from the remembrance candle, and carry it forward into your marriage candles, as a way of carrying all this light and love forward into your new lives together.
Lighting this candle is symbolic of all the light and the love they brought into the world, and the flame represents the memories of them that live on every time we call them to mind. If you choose to have a Unity/Family Candle ceremony later, we can take the flame from the remembrance candle, and carry it forward into your marriage candles, as a way of carrying all this light and love forward into your new lives together.
Ceremony
We can incorporate a Handfasting ceremony into any ceremony option, or you may opt for a full, stand-alone handfasting ceremony.
This is ideal for couples who wish to mark their engagement in line with the ancient wisdom of our (Pre-Christian) Brehon Laws, or who wish to renew their wedding vows through a handfasting. The beauty of the handfasting ceremony is that it emphasises the freedom with which each spouse gives their hand to the other, in full knowledge of who they are marrying, and why. Brehon law was incredibly fair by comparison to our current legal system, and under Brehon law, the handfasting ceremony acknowledged the simple reality that living with another person is not always easy, so it makes sense to have a handfasting period as a trial run in advance of the full marriage. And if the handfasting is incorporated in the full marriage ceremony, it symbolises the end of the engagement period, and the beginning of the couple’s full commitment to one another, in marriage.
This is ideal for couples who wish to mark their engagement in line with the ancient wisdom of our (Pre-Christian) Brehon Laws, or who wish to renew their wedding vows through a handfasting. The beauty of the handfasting ceremony is that it emphasises the freedom with which each spouse gives their hand to the other, in full knowledge of who they are marrying, and why. Brehon law was incredibly fair by comparison to our current legal system, and under Brehon law, the handfasting ceremony acknowledged the simple reality that living with another person is not always easy, so it makes sense to have a handfasting period as a trial run in advance of the full marriage. And if the handfasting is incorporated in the full marriage ceremony, it symbolises the end of the engagement period, and the beginning of the couple’s full commitment to one another, in marriage.