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Unity Candle

If you want to have a Unity Candle in your wedding ceremony, here's how it works.

The bride and groom, use two lit taper candles (symbolizing their individuality) to light one big candle as a symbol of their two lives becoming one in commitment.

You can include your parents, your grandparents, and your children in the lighting of candles.

Usually during the processional, the mothers of the bride and groom light a taper candle in honor of their son or daughter at the altar or a small table at the front of the church. They return to their seats, and the tapers remain lit throughout the ceremony.

After the vows and rings have been exchanged, the minister will explain to the guests the symbolism of the Unity Candle. He asks the bride and the groom to take their "individual" lives (the individual taper candles) and bring them both to the large center candle, lighting one flame with their two individual flames.

During the lighting of the Unity Candle, many times couple will have music played or the minister will recite an appropriate poem to accompany the symbolism of the ceremony.

Whether or not to extinguish the individual tapers after the lighting of the Unity Candle is up to the couple.

Many couples believe that putting out individual flames appears as if their individual lives have been snuffed out for the benefit of the marriage, while some believe extinguishing individual candles only shows their devotion to the commitment they've just made.

Another way would be for the couple to blow out the candles together while holding them next to each others, the decision is left entirely up to the couple.

The reason to include the Unity Candle in your ceremony? A symbol of unity is always a beautiful thing.

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