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Add a dash of magic to your marriage ceremony, handfasting, or vow renewal with this simple introduction to common herbs and botanicals. Believed by many to hold magical and symbolic properties, these plants have been used on wedding altars and marriage blessings, and in other commitment ceremonies, witchcraft and spellcasting, and individual spiritual practices since ancient times.

Add a unique and unexpected unity ceremony to your wedding ceremony, reception, or afterparty, with palm reading! Palm reading can be combined with traditional 'blessing of the hands' or handfasting rituals to create something new and authentically YOU. Learn common meanings and how to read the heart line, head line, life line, and marriage line on a couple's palms, plus the advice we'd give these newlyweds if we were the wedding officiant or friend performing this ritual!

A simple, nonreligious hand blessing ceremony script. This blessing is easy to combine with another unity ritual, such as a handfasting or palm reading, to create a personalized and unique ceremony. This variation on a traditional 'Blessing of the Hands' reading includes mindfulness elements, advice for the future, and ends with a popular Irish wedding blessing.

Learn the meaning of a love lock wedding ceremony, and what to say and do during this popular unity ritual! With a sample officiant script and variations for two locks, one lock with two keys, and multiple locks for blended families who want to include children in the ceremony.

This unique wedding ceremony includes a unity puzzle ceremony, with the perfect wording for your wedding officiant to say to capture the sweet symbolize and meaning of the ritual. This wedding script also includes a warm welcome and greeting to guests, and an exchange of vows and rings. Written by ordained AMM Minister and professional officiant Dan Henkel.

From unity ceremony to unique recessional, here are 6 creative ways to include a sword in your wedding ceremony. This list incudes a military saber arch, Viking theme ring exchange traditional Sikh marriage kirpan, and more. Use these wedding sword ideas as-is, or personalize with the help of your wedding officiant for a custom unity ceremony.

All your questions about the wedding unity candle ceremony, answered: When to light the candle (before or after rings and vows), who lights the unity candle, how to include parents and others, wording and what to say, symbolism and meaning, whether to blow it out before the pronouncement, and more! For wedding officiants and engaged couples.

Ask your wedding officiant to perform this simple 6 card spread, 2 person tarot reading for marriage advice, strengths and challenges in the relationship, and how to work together to create a loving and lasting union. A mystical unity ceremony idea that's perfect for Wiccan and modern Pagan weddings, or for anyone who loves tarot.

Embrace the weird in love and life! From wreaths made of human hair to leaping with your lover over a bonfire, these weird unity ceremony ideas are the perfect alternatives to traditional rituals, to inspire a unique wedding ceremony your guests will remember for years to come. Based on unusual wedding traditions from around the world, including Victorian England, Pagan, and Venezuelan customs, with a quote on the 'mutually satisfying weirdness' we call true love.

Learn about popular unity ceremony ideas for your wedding ceremony, as well as when a unity ceremony usually takes place during the ceremony, what these traditions symbolize, and how to add and include one in your wedding. We also offer an example of what your wedding officiant can say during the ritual, to help you find the perfect wording for your big day.

Use this simple recipe to make a sweet-smelling protective wedding smudge stick for your wedding’s smudging ceremony. This sacred combination of sage, sweetgrass, and lavender is said to welcome love, harmony, wisdom, and good luck into your marriage, while clearing away negative energy.

Learn about this beautiful unity ceremony, traditionally part of Hispanic and Filipino Catholic wedding ceremonies. The wedding lasso, or ‘el lazo de boda,’ is a large rosary, rope, or garland placed around a bride and groom’s shoulders to symbolize a spiritual bond. This ritual can be modified for a modern or traditional marriage ceremony.

Learn about Greek Orthodox Weddings ritual and traditions, from the stefana wedding crown ceremony, to blessings in threes, unique prayers and psalms, Koumbaros, the meaning of the wedding candles, and drinking from the Common Cup.

Learn about the Muslim marriage ceremony tradition - the nikkah or nikah ceremony – and how this traditional religious Islamic wedding custom compares to the declaration of intent and marriage certificate in an American / U.S. wedding.

5 creative unity ceremony ideas for your beach wedding, including a shell or stone blessing ritual, unique tropical toast with a custom wedding cocktail, traditional sand ceremony, and more.