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Wedding Traditions & Customs

Wedding Traditions & Customs

Understand wedding traditions and shed light on all that’s old, new, borrowed and blue. Learn the appropriate way to navigate the first dance, cut the cake and toss the bouquet. Need culture-specific advice? Research everything from Italian wedding traditions to the customs of a Mexican ceremony. Ever wonder why it’s bad luck for the bride and groom to see each other before the big event? eHow offers the scoop on this and many other superstitions. You’ll even find suggestions for honoring parents and grandparents.

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  • How to Understand the Meaning Behind the Ritualistic Lighting of the Unity Candle for Brides and Grooms at Their Wedding Ceremony

    The Unity Candle at Wedding Ceremonies is a Ritualistic Joining of the Bride and Groom Which Many Guests Don't Understand!

  • How to Light the Memorial Candle During a Wedding Ceremony

    For your wedding day, you want to make sure all your loved ones are there to share in your joy. You can symbolically include loved ones who have passed away by lighting a memorial candle in their...

  • How to Perform a Unity Candle Service at a Wedding

    Lighting a unity candle during a wedding service is a traditional way to symbolize that the bride and groom are joining their two selves and two lives into one life together. This beautiful...

  • How to Perform Unity Candle Wedding Ceremonies

    Weddings performed in the United States often incorporate symbolic rituals of the union between the bride and the groom. Lighting a unity candle symbolizes the intertwining of the two families...

  • Homemade Unity Candles

    It's fairly easy to make your own unity candles for your wedding, using one pillar and two taper candles. They will be special since you can incorporate accents that match your wedding colors and...

  • Introduction to Unity Candles

    Unity candles have become a popular and touching part of modern weddings. The lighting of the candles symbolizes the unity of the two people being joined in marriage. This ritual is appropriate...

  • Unity Candle Traditions

    The lighting of the unity candle symbolizes the joining together of two families--the bride's and the groom's--into a single family unit. Other couples use the ceremony to mean the bringing...

  • Ideas for Decorating an Altar Unity Candle

    A unity candle ceremony at a wedding symbolizes the joining of two people into one new life together. The bride and groom each take separate candles and come together to light a larger candle. The...

  • When to Light a Wedding Candelabra

    Lighting candles for your wedding can be symbolic to you and your fiance. Candles also can add to the ambiance and decor. You can incorporate candelabras into your wedding ceremony for various...

  • How to Understand the Meaning Behind the Ritualistic Lighting of the Unity Candle for Brides and Grooms at Their Wedding Ceremony

    The Ritualistic Lighting of the Unity Candle For Brides and Grooms at Weddings is Often A Mystery to the Guests

  • Unity Candles Etiquette

    Unity candles are a newer wedding tradition, but one with many interesting variations. Full of religious meaning, a sense of community or simply a symbol of the ultimate meaning of marriage, unity...

  • Decorating Unity Candles

    A unity candle is part of a wedding tradition that has the bride and groom lighting a candle together. The flames are taken from two separate candles, then together the two flames are used to...

  • What Does the Unity Candle Represent?

    The unity candle ceremony is one of the most popular wedding traditions in America, despite its relatively new appearance on the scene. The ceremony is performed in Christian, interfaith and...

  • What is the Meaning of Lighting a Unity Candle?

    The lighting of the unity candle is a relatively newer custom in weddings used to symbolize the coming together of two families--the bride's and the groom's--into a single familial union. While...

  • How to Light Unity Candles

    Unity candles have been used at wedding ceremonies for many years to symbolize two lives becoming one. How you light the unity candle says a lot about your love for each other and the love for...

  • How to Make Unity Candles for a Wedding

    Unity candles are a popular and beautiful tradition at wedding ceremonies. Lighting the unity candle is a symbol of two lives becoming one. You could buy a pre-made wedding unity candle or you...

  • How to Make Wedding Guests Feel Special

    For many couples their wedding is their first hosting experience—and Rule Number One is to make their guests feel like the celebration would not be the same without them—and for one brief moment...

  • How to Light a Wedding Unity Candle

    The lighting of the unity candle symbolizes a union of two who are becoming one through marriage. A nice aspect of lighting a Unity Candle is that it is has no religious significance, and can be...

  • How to Select a Wedding Unity Candle

    Lighting the unity candle is a relatively new wedding tradition that has gained wide popularity in the past few years. The act of lighting one pillar candle with two individual taper candles...

  • How to Have a Family Circle in your Unity Candle Ceremony

    The symbolism of a unity candle ceremony in your wedding is to visually show the joining of two people and by extension two families. This is a creative take on that idea that will include all...

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