Involving the kids -- your kids: Family candle
Filed under: Relationships, Second Wedding, Ceremonies
If you're bringing a child or three into your wedding, you're probably looking for ways to involve them. There are a great many ways to do this, depending on their ages, skills, and the type of wedding you plan. One simple way is to have a Family Candle, which is simply a variant of the unity candle.
If there is only one child in your union, the logistics are simple: he or she adds his own taper to the adults' as they light the pillar candle together. If you have more than one or two children? You might opt to have a children's taper, wielded by the oldest of the children, representing the other children.
If that doesn't seem right to you, play with the ritual a bit. How can you make it work for your passel of children? Perhaps you need more candles! Mom and her kid(s) can use tapers to light one pillar; dad and his kid(s) can do the same. Then the two parents, the new spouses, use their tapers to take a flame from the separate pillars to the large unity pillar in the middle. And when you think about it, that's a pretty good symbol of what's happening when adults with children marry.
However you manage it for your family, a family candle is a good way to involve the children, and to symbolize the new reality that the ceremony is creating.
If you're interested in purchasing the family candle as shown in the picture, check out the link.
However you manage it for your family, a family candle is a good way to involve the children, and to symbolize the new reality that the ceremony is creating.
If you're interested in purchasing the family candle as shown in the picture, check out the link.
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