Wedding Candle Lighting Ceremony Script

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Wedding candle lighting ceremony script. Some mothers have anxiously anticipating the wedding day and want to play up their role as the mother of the bride or mother of the groom if a couple tells me this is the case it s the first thing i recommend. How to do a unity candle ceremony. Unity candle ceremony bride groom and children you will observe that there are candles on the unity table.

Typically two taper candles are placed on either side of a larger pillar candle or center unity candle. There are few symbols more fitting of ever lasting love than two flames uniting as one. We encourage you to use or modify any wedding ceremony script ideas presented here that inspire you in writing your own ceremony script.

The taper candles represent the lives of the bride and groom as individuals prior to their union in marriage. Through the love and illumination of god your paths have come together and in this symbolic ceremony you will each take a lighted candle representing your previous separate pathways and together you will light the unity candle symbolizing your willingness to walk life s. Bride and groom together as you light this candle of unity you symbolize the flame of your own individual selves joining to ignite the partnership of marriage.

This wedding script seamlessly incorporates the lighting of a unity candle into the marriage ceremony and can be customized as needed or printed out and used immediately. Three candles and a small table are needed for this service.