Depending on your culture or religion, you may have several different options when it comes to what kinds of wedding prayers will be offered during your wedding ceremony. Sometimes, the officiant offers some personal and improvised wedding prayers or a specially written wedding prayer calling for the long life and never ending love for the [...]

One tradition that is another major part of many different kinds of wedding ceremonies is the use of unity candles.  However, don’t let anyone fool you, the tradition of using unity candles does not date back hundreds of years, neither is it bad luck if you choose not to use a unity candle in your [...]

One wedding tradition that seems to be an underlying theme in all weddings, no matter the religion or country, is to have some kind of a wedding prayer, or many different wedding prayers at different times during your wedding ceremony. A wedding prayer can be performed by your minister, or person performing the wedding ceremony, [...]

I believe one of the last things I did while I was doing my wedding planning was to come up with a list of wedding ceremony songs that I wanted to use. This isn’t because it wasn’t very important to me, or that I had forgotten about it until the last minute, I just didn’t [...]

I’ve said it before in previous articles, but when I was doing my wedding planning, the last thing I really thought about for our wedding was the church decorations. So the week before the wedding I was hurriedly making pew bows and choosing how I wanted to decorate the altar with columns and flower [...]

The unity candle is used in wedding ceremonies as a symbol of two becoming one, two individual people and personalities now being formed into one. Your unity candle can be as ornate or as simple as you like. They come with large ornate candle holders, personalized candles, or decorated in any way that you like, [...]