Friday, August 24, 2007

Wedding Tip: Alternatives to Unity Candles

Unity candles are great. But I like how personalized some of the other options are as well. Nicole and Brad are getting married next month and are using sand since they will be getting married outdoors. I wanted to post a great shot above from a really cool sand ceremony we photographed last year. The three candles around the outside of the vase represented the couple and their son. Last year we also had a couple use soil from where they came from. She had relatives bring soil from her part of Africa where she was born and had lived and he had soil from the Cincinnati area. And if you are more traditional and you have a unity candle one quick tip is to go ahead and light the candle's wick once before using it at the ceremony. This helps mothers and you two to light the candle without having problems.

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