Peace, UNITY, Love...and havin' fun...

James Brown knew what weddings are all about!

Let's concentrate on the Unity for now.  Unity Ceremonies to be exact. The ceremonies within your ceremony.  Let's see, there is the Unity Candle Ceremony, Unity Sand Ceremony, Unity Wine Ceremony, Unity Water Ceremony, Unity Bread Ceremony and the list goes on and on!! While any of these are sweet, why not create your own?!?! Where do you think they all came from? From someones imagination of course, so who's to say you can't put your own spin on a Unity Ceremony.  I officiated for a couple that met while playing softball.....so we had a Softball Bat Unity Ceremony! They had two little bats made and placed them on a plaque while I spoke about bringing the teams (families) together and home runs and all that fun stuff. 

On a more "serious" note, the father of a groom I officiated for is a Steel Artist so the couple created two halves of a steel heart and joined the pieces together during the ceremony. It went a little something like this...HIT IT!

Unity Ceremony

I'd like to read you a poem by Joseph Wardy

Steel as in firmness... Demonstrates commitment of convictions.

Steel as in heart... Your not intimidated by the practice of tenderness.

Steel as in mind... you have toughness balanced with flexibility.

If you look up the definition of steel in the dictionary, you will learn that it is Iron made stronger by mixing it with other substances, it's much like a marriage where one partner is made stronger by the addition of the other partner's love.

I bring this up because Rob and Jessica have created something from steel to use in their ceremony today.  I'd like to ask their mother's to bring their respective children the piece that they have fashioned from steel.  Now Rob and Jessica will join these pieces together as a symbol of their coming together today.  After the ceremony they will be welding it together like the melting together of parts of themselves.

(and the heart was joined together and placed on the altar).

You can make a Unity Ceremony out of anything! A shared hobby or occupation maybe? Just use your imagination and make your ceremony your own!

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