Incorporating a ring warming into your wedding is such a special way to involve all of your guests in your ceremony. A ring warming is when you give your loved ones the opportunity to hold and instill your wedding bands with a wish, blessing or prayer for your marriage. By the time your rings make it…
Handfasting is a Celtic ritual that involves tying together the hands of the couple, and then their hands are removed and the knot is fastened. The tied knot symbolises their eternal tie. The couple’s hands are joined together, usually holding hands so the wrists and pulses are touching, with a ribbon or symbolic material looped…
Candle lighting is commonly used in ceremonies as a symbolic act of blending and binding. It is common that the couple light individual small candles and together light a larger centre candle as a symbol as of their union. The individual candles represent their lives before today. The marriage candle represents the joining of love,…
A fun ritual incorporated into some wedding ceremonies is “Jumping the Broom”. With roots back to African and Celtic cultures, the couple literally jump over a broom to signify crossing the threshold and their entrance into a new life, thereby symbolically “sweeping away” their former single lives and entering into a new life as…
The release of doves is a beautiful symbolic ritual used at weddings. White doves are the symbol of Love, Peace and Hope. They pair for life, and at the end of each day they return to the same home for the night. Like a married couple, the doves are not obliged to be by each…
Many couples exchange rings on their wedding day. The custom of giving and exchanging wedding rings comes from ancient Egypt. The Egyptians believed the circular and unbroken shape of the ring symbolised an eternity of love, a love that had no beginning and no end. The third finger on the left hand was chosen for…
Yorke Peninsula is surrounded by spectacular coastlines and magnificent beaches. Wool Bay, Flaherty’s Beach and Innes National Park to name a few. What better way to add that special touch to your ceremony on Yorkes than with a sand blending ritual. Sand blending is a great way to visually and physically show the blending of…