Why not marry your honey, with honey.  In this ceremony, the symbol of honey is to represent the sweet life the couple will share.  The bride and groom each dips their finger tip into a dish of honey and then to the tongue of their beloved. The first taste of their sweet life.  A perfect poem for this ceremony would be...

Hindu Marriage Poem
You have become mine forever.  
Yes, we have become partners.
I have become yours. 
Hereafter, I cannot live without you.
Do not live without me.  
Let us share the joys.
We are word and meaning, unite. 
You are thought and I am sound

May the nights be honey-sweet for us
May the mornings be honey-sweet for us
May the plants be honey-sweet for us
May the earth be honey-sweet for us

Earlier, I wrote a ceremony in which a garden was planted.  I described the ceremony as having small pots of soil and a scattering of seeds.  As the couple would place a seed into the soil, the officiant would say - "This is the seed of love, let it grow" 
"This is the seed of forgiveness, let it grow" etc, etc.  I imagine this same analogy could be used with bird seed and a feeder.

The feeder would represent the Home that the couple will share a life in.  A "Home is where the Heart is."  During the ceremony the couple will pour bird seed into the feeder.  The seed represent the seeds of life, love and family, all experiences over flowing.  They are the seeds of play, laughter and joy.  Seeds of hopes, dreams and change.  Mixed among them may be seeds of sorrows or pains, but the blessing seeds, far outweigh them.  These are the seeds that  will fill the couples Home and all that they will experience, endure, embrace and grow from.  After all, "There's no place like home."

This adorable child's book makes for an excellent wedding reading.  It is the story of a distant and peculiar (yet, clever and witty) dinosaur,  who falls in love with a Lovely Other Dinosaur.  The other dinosaur is a forgetful, free-spirit with a skipping mind and a kind heart - Not unlike my own marriage:

Reading:
The fierce Dinosaur was trapped inside his cage of ice. Although it was cold he was happy in there. It was, after all, his cage.

Then along came the Lovely Other Dinosaur.
 The Lovely Other Dinosaur melted the Dinosaur's cage with kind words and loving thoughts. 
I like this Dinosaur thought the Lovely Other Dinosaur.
 Although he is fierce he is also tender and he is funny.
He is also quite clever though I will not tell him this for now.

I like this Lovely Other Dinosaur, thought the Dinosaur. She is beautiful and she is different and she smells so nice.
 She is also a free spirit which is a quality I much admire in a dinosaur.

But he can be so distant and so peculiar at times, thought the Lovely Other Dinosaur.
 He is also overly fond of things. 
Are all Dinosaurs so overly fond of things?

But her mind skips from here to there so quickly thought the Dinosaur. She is also uncommonly keen on shopping. 
Are all Lovely Other Dinosaurs so uncommonly keen on shopping?

I will forgive his peculiarity and his concern for things, thought the Lovely Other Dinosaur. For they are part of what makes him a richly charactered individual.

I will forgive her skipping mind and her fondness for shopping, thought the Dinosaur. For she fills our life with beautiful thoughts and wonderful surprises. Besides, I am not unkeen on shopping either.

Now the Dinosaur and the Lovely Other Dinosaur are old. 
Look at them. 
Together they stand on the hill telling each other stories and feeling the warmth of the sun on their backs.

And that, my friends, is how it is with love. 
Let us all be Dinosaurs and Lovely Other Dinosaurs together. 
For the sun is warm.
And the world is a beautiful place. 

Every marriage starts out as a blank canvas and every day is a splash of color.  
I would love to Illustrate that very idea, during a wedding ceremony.  And all that would be needed, is a blank canvas, an easel ( with a protective tray, placed on a protective sheet), a collection of small jelly jars filled with vibrant colors of paint and a willing couple.

The couple would (very carefully) pour the jars of paint down the front of their canvas to symbolize the creating of a life together.

The blank canvas represents, the day of the wedding, and a new beginning.  The paint colors signify the experiences that lie ahead.  Each color a moment to be had.  Colors of joys and sorrows, blessings and heartache.  The colors are the couples milestones, their celebrations, tribulations, passions and dreams.  They are the moments that become the days that make-up the years.  

The painted canvas will be the couples life (and life's art).   It will be exactly what the two of them make it.  There will be places on the canvas when the colors blend and mix, flowing together, creating a new color of experiences shared.  There will be places when the colors stay separate and stand out alone and independent... yet, still a compliment to the bold color by it's side.  And there may be places of contrast.  Parts of the canvas that look dark or messy and not at all to the couples liking.  While another spot remains blank and bare.

However, when you step back and look at the canvas in it's entirety, you will see that it clearly is "An Original Masterpiece" unlike anything you've ever seen before.  Each color, contrast, shadow, blend as unique and beautiful as each couple.





 

I love medals.  I have many pieces of symbolism that I wear on chain around my neck.  My favorite and the ones I often wear are my immaculate conception medal, my tree medal, and a silver circle which is inscribed with the words "Not all that wander are lost".   So of course, I am in love with The Family Medallion and believe it should be included in all wedding ceremonies that are blending two families. 

  

When your wedding consists of two families becoming one, and your children and their children becoming siblings.  This is a wedding and marriage that is bigger than the both of you.   This is a celebration where all should share the promise, and the symbolism. “The Family Medallion” is a lovely addition to the ring ceremony. 

The wedding ring is a circle that represents a love that is endless and it is given during the ceremony as a symbol of that timeless love and a token of the promises shared.  The Family Medallion is three circles intertwined and it represents a family being bonded, becoming one and sharing a life together.  The Medallion can be given to the children and promises made of being a united family and then a special blessing.

The Family Medallion would also be a lovely and symbolic way to celebrate a child’s adoption.  A sweet, sensitive ceremony that would touch everyone and give a lovely way for the new parents to give thanks, rejoice and celebrate their new and lovely life and journey.