The following are a number of suggestions for special personal touches that you may want to add to your wedding.

• Memorial Candle Ceremony - deceased family members may be remembered through special memorial candles lit prior to the ceremony or, if you wish, during the ceremony.

• Unity Candle Ceremony - candles are lit prior to the ceremony by, usually, the mothers of the bride and groom symbolizing the love, care, warmth and support they bring to this union. The bride and groom then light a large unity candle using the tapers lit by their mothers symbolizing the union of the couple through the wedding ceremony.

• Rose Ceremony - there are several variations of this ceremony but they usually include the groom presenting the bride with a rose or the couple exchanging roses. The rose is traditionally a flower that means “love” and several variations may be selected to say, “I love you” through roses.

• Breaking a Glass - the traditional Jewish ceremony includes a “breaking of the glass” usually by the groom stepping on a glass at the end of the ceremony.

• Sand Ceremony - a symbolic unity ceremony that requires the Bride and Groom to pour sand (often different coloured sand) from individual containers into one large container. This ceremony may also include children, friends and relatives. At venues where candles are not allowed (or out of doors where candles are certain to blow out) it often will replace the Unity Candle ceremony.

• Hand Ceremony- an opportunity to demonstrate through hands the roles of both bride and groom as healer, protector, shelter, and guide.

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