Unity Candles for Your Sacred Union
Lighting unity a candle at weddings is a popular ritual these days. With already lit candles a groom and a bride use a tapered candle each to light a third pillar candle in simultaneous action. If they blow their individual candles out it means they have melded their individuality, but they can leave them lit to signal the opposite. The big pillar candle that they lit together signifies unity. Sometimes the two individual candles aren’t extinguished as they symbolized two people becoming as one, but they may be extinguished and used at the couple’s anniversaries. Sometimes the candles are all the same size. And that means the couple commits to their relationship, but it emphasizes that neither has lost their individuality.
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Usually the candles are lit preceding the announcement of the couple as husband and wife, yet after they have exchanged their rings. Sometimes they have the parents of the couple light the tapered candles. The holder for the candles may be one unit with the candles united or single holders. There are many sellers of unity candles on the Internet. The candles come in sets with decorative hearts, roses, pearls, stars, ribbons, flowers, rhinestones and other things to add more beauty to the candles. Or two tapers and a pillar can be bought separately.
This ritual of lighting unity candles for sacred unions has gained in appeal and will most likely be around for a long time. It is a wonderful way to symbolize the unity of a couple getting married and can be carried out in more than one-way.