The Sand Ceremony is a wonderful way to symbolize the blending of your two lives into one and usually occurs after the wedding ring exchange. For those couples who like the idea of the Unity Candle, the Sand Ceremony is the outdoor alternative and a lovely addition to a beach themed wedding ceremony or elopement.

The Sand Ceremony is also a wonderful way to include your children or other family members in your wedding ceremony. In the Family Unity Sand Ceremony, each family member pours a different color sand into the center container, symbolizing each individual joining and being blended into the new family. Each of the readings below can be easily modified to suit a family unity ceremony.

SANDS OF STRENGTH

PARTNER 1 and PARTNER 2, are now going to perform the sand ceremony which is a ritual designed to symbolize the joining of two lives and the ongoing existence of each ones individuality.

They each chose a color of sand that is meaningful to them to represent themselves as individuals and together, they will pour the sand into the larger vase which represents the new family they create here today.

You can see as they pour their sand that it blends together. Sometimes when you look at it, COLOR is the dominant color and that is when PARTNER 1 needs support from PARTNER 2.

Sometimes when you look at it, COLOR will be the dominant color and that is when PARTNER 2 is looking to PARTNER 1 for support. But you will notice that each color still maintains its own identity.

And this is how it should be even in your marriage. When you look at this vase and see the many configurations you can see the merging of the two colors. But each grain of sand maintains its own space, never losing itself, but blending together to support the structure of the combination, for the good of all.

GRAINS OF SAND

You have just sealed your relationship by the giving and receiving of rings. This beautiful union is symbolized through the combining of these two individual containers of sand.

The sand closest to PARTNER 1 represents who he/she is... his/her personality, individuality, values and all of life experiences that have made him/her the person he/she is today. The sand nearest PARTNER 2 represents who he/she is... his/her ideals, thoughts, passion and life trials that have made him/her the person that stands before you.

Each container holds its own unique beauty, strength, and character. They can stand on their own and be whole, without need of anything else. However when the two are blended together they create a new and extraordinarily more intricate entity. Each grain of sand brings to the mixture a lasting beauty that forever enriches the combination.

Please pour the sand into this common container to symbolize the union of your two lives.

Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage be a molding of two individual personalities, bonded together forming one heart and one love. The life that each of you experienced individually, before this moment, will hereafter be inseparably united, for the two shall become one.

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THE FAMILY UNITY SAND CEREMONY

PARTNER 1 and PARTNER 2, today as you have sealed your commitment to each other by the giving and receiving of rings, you too make a commitment to CHILD(REN) and your new family.

We lovingly recognize the significant role that CHILD(REN) play in this marriage celebrated today. They will now join PARTNER 1 and PARTNER 2 in a commitment to each other and their new blended family.

Today, this beautiful family relationship is symbolized through the pouring of these individual containers of sand, each representing a member of this family.

The separate bottles of sand symbolize your separate lives, separate families and separate sets of friends. They represent all that you were, all that you are and all that you’ll ever be as individuals.

As these containers of sand are poured into the common united family container, the individual containers of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your new family be