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Hello my name is Lori Randall with Simply Divine Events and I am a wedding planner and
I have been planning weddings and events for 10 years. I am going to talk about tips on
ways to incorporate ceremony traditions into your beach themed wedding. One ceremony tradition
that I like to use for a beach ceremony would be the unity sand ceremony. Basically it is
the same as the unity candle that most people do when they are getting married in churches.
Instead of having candles since you are outside and there is wind and it most likely isn't
going to stay lit, they do a unity sand ceremony. And what a unity sand ceremony is is basically
you have a vase in the middle which would be your large unity candle and then you would
have two smaller vases on either side which would take place of your two pillar candles.
And basically the two vases on the side would each be filled up with sand and each vase
would represent the sand in the vase would represent the individual of the bride and
the groom. And then they would go up and pick up their vases, pour it into the center vase
of their sand and basically you are now uniting into one person so you are no longer individual,
you no longer have individual families, you are now one and your two families are joined
together. And basically you are saying that you will never be able to pick out those little
sand pellets ever again and put them back into the other vases. So basically it is making
you one and it is uniting you and I've seen people that have used the colored sand if
you kind of want to dress it up a little bit that you have for your ceremonies. For your
wedding you might have the teals or the pinks and you might want to put those two together.
I have also seen some brides that might take, they might be from say New Jersey and they'll
get sand from the New Jersey beach for the bride and say the groom is from California
and they'll go get sand from California and then they'll unite those two families together
through sand. So that is just a tip that I like to use for your ceremony traditions for
a casual beach wedding.