Lighting Unity Candle 1

Will the parents of our bride and groom please come to the altar and light candles representing the separate families and pasts from which _groomname_and _bridename_ have come today to be joined together as one.

(Parents come to the altar and light their candles.)

_groomname_and _bridename_, above you, below you, forever surrounding you, shall be the pledge you make unto each other today.

It is the pledge of the truth and purity of your every breath. The constant friendship of your hearts.

The passion and fire of your spirits and the deepest love your souls have to give.

It is the pledge of all that is within you. The only true pledge that one heart can offer to another.

_groomname_and _bridename_ please join your parents, and each take the candle of your past in hand.

You are now on your wedding day, offering yourselves,  towards the creation of your future, and to all that is yet to come. Please light the centre candle.

(Couple join hands & light the center candle together)

Lighting the centre candle creates the circle of life. Please place the smaller candles back in their holders, and snuff their flames.

The light that remains is the light of love, the light in which you shall be forever as one