My wedding is Saturday and I have a BIG question..?

Question

We are getting married Saturday, September 29th 2007 and I have not thought about what we are going to do as far as in a untidy candle. We are getting married in a baseball stadium and getting married at the home plate.. What other ideas are there instead of the whole candle thing.. ( I just think it would or might blow out?) HELP PLEASE!!!! ( I can always trust in you guys!!!!! )

* WE want to use SOMETHING in its place...just not the candles... *

* we want soemthing to take up this time of the wedding.. something else instead of the candle lighting..*

Answer 1

Sand ceremonies are becoming more popular, OR you could do a "blessing of the hands" instead.

Here is a site with an example:
http://www.abeautifulwedding.us/vows_handblessing.htm

Answer 2

Here are a few you could do in place of the candle ceremony. You can do the sand ceremony? Each of you pick a different color sand and pour it into a clear vase showing your lives becoming one. Or a Wine ceremony ( one wine is bitter one is sweet ) Use white wine. Or don't do one at all. It is completely up to you. Good Luck and best wishes to you on your special day.

Answer 3

What about the sand? do a google search on wedding sand ceremony and there are many results, I saw this at a wedding and thought it was the coolest thing. same basic principle, just a different idea.. as a side note, it'd be cool if they'd let you use some of the dirt off the field (i'm assuming you're a huge fan, otherwise, i wouldn't have suggested it).

Answer 4

Why do you feel you even need a unity candle. If you feel it is necessary, why don't you have a little ceremony at your reception, after you're introduced or whatever they do when the couple first come in you two can do the unity candle thing.

Answer 5

I have heard of people using a sand mixing ceremony instead of a unity candle. You can look it up online. You get two different colors of sand and pour them together into a receptacle.

Answer 6

You do not have to have the unity candle. I would just skip that part and do something else unique if you'd like. Congratulations!
If you still want to do something like a unity candle, I guess you could try doing something with flowers.

Answer 7

Well, like everyone else has said, you can do the sand ceremony. However, if it's windy....that might not work out?!?

Are you having anyone sing, or an instrumentalist? If so, you could have someone sing a solo or play a song at that time instead.....or simply do nothing. My son and daughter-in-law skipped that part....and no one noticed!

Answer 8

One wedding I attended had the couple make a sand sculpture instead of a unity candle. Bascially, you get 2 vases of colored sand (one with pink, one with blue, for example). You each take turns making layers in a larger vase with your color then you both pour together for the top layer.

Answer 9

I've been to a couple of weddings where they've used sand instead. They each had a small glass container of colored sand (their wedding colors) and then they had a larger glass container which they emptied their containers of sand into together. The one officiating then commented on the fact that, just as the colored grains of sand had become one and could not be separated, so was their union in matrimony. They then put a stopper/seal over the sand so the bride and groom could have it to remember. My friends keep theirs on a shelf above their fireplace!

Answer 10

Don't worry about the candle out of like 10 weddings I've been to I think only 1 or2 of them did the candle thing. especially sense it's not in a church then don't worry about it. =)
Have fun & Congratulations!!