Question by kon11stantine11: Need help writing a “cute” & Unique saying for a beach wedding- see details please?
My fiance and I are getting married on the beach in the OBX(north carolina) in June w/ a reception following. Instead of doing a unity candle, since we’ll be on the beach, we’re doing a “sand ceremony”. Basically instead of lighting the candle together you pour sand into a container from 2 seperate containers & it symbolizes your lives being combined.
Before the ceremony, each of the 70 family members who will be there will be given a little heart shaped glass bottle filled with sand. Our names & wedding date will be on it. We are asking them to pour the sand into our 1 container which they will find out later symbolizes not only our seperate lives, but our families are being combined as well.
After the ceremony they are to fill their bottles with sand from the beach, they now have a unique “wedding favor” to take home with them.
We need a short cute saying to attach to the bottle they will be handed that basically tells them the directions- but we want something cute almost poetic.
Thanks in advance!
(Details on the bottle: Heart shaped, about the size of a small tennis ball w/ a cork top. They are engraved w/ our names & date, we are gluing a sea shell or small starfish to the front of it, and putting green ribbon around the top, which this little note will be attached to the bottle with)
Also, please note this is just a cute favor on the side.
When we get to the reception site, each person is getting a picture frame, a chocolate sea shell (gorgeous), and we are also paying for their entire vacation the week we are getting married int he Outerbanks.
So please, no opinions on what my family would and wouldnt like, just help with the answers!
Thanks so much!!!
HA. Well, obviously since its on the beach, we’re all dressing up but going barefoot. My girls are going to be in sundresses, the guys are in khakis and a button down.
We’ll put our shoes back on after the ceremony when we head to the reception.
It was a good idea, but we really are already doing the sand ceremony this way, bottles are ordered- we’re just trying to make it plain and simple.
If it comes down to it we’ll literally just put, go put the sand int he container up front, keep the bottle with you.
…but id like something better!!
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Answer by flutterflie04
I really like the idea of your sand ceremony, but in all honesty no one is going to want to take home some sand.
What do you think? Answer below!
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“together as one” “two become one” ???
You just brought me back to my wedding day. We did the same thing. I loved the sand ceremony, everyone thought it was so beautiful. We didnt have sand favors though, only ours.
Do you really have to written instructions? The officiator can just tell everyone what to do with the sand when the time comes. Since you already have the bottles inscribed, that should be enough. I know you said you didn’t want advice on the families would want, but paying for the vacation? Isn’t that a bit much?
“Two hearts become one.”
Oh, Ally Cat. Very generous of you to pay for a week’s vacation. But the sand ceremony, ay yaye yaye yaye yaye. That is all I can say. I can imagine people digging sand out of their shoes for weeks to come. Just say, “like the sands in an hourglass, so are the days of our lives.” Very poetic, I think. But leave out all the pouring and combining of sand. Just so complicated. Have your bridesmaids and attendants do it symbolically for everyone else. And, let everyone else take the sand filled glasses home with them, along with all the sand they will have in the shoes, and stuck to their nylons and panties.
We ask you to join us hand in hand
by pouring together all the sand
Into our glass we have here
and let us join two families dear
Now that we are blending our two families together, we would like you all to join us in the blending of the sand ceremony. As all of the sand becomes one ,so will our families that will never be able to be separated into our individual sand container’s again.
or something along those lines.
We are doing the sand ceremony as well but it will be me and my 3 kids and my FH and his daughter, so it will be a family blending. We will all have a different color sand to blend together. everyones favorite color to make a sand sculpture.
Why don’t you have 2 different colors , one for each side of the family and then yours and your fh favorite color. It would make a colorful piece. Good Luck
We are also doing a message in the bottle for our guest when they arrive at the reception and leaving decorated wine bottles in a container on the table with an empty scroll piece of paper in it so our guest can write us a message back.great for a scrapbook afterwards Just another idea if you were interested.