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The Rock Ceremony

Officiant to couple: Before you met, your lives were on different paths

with different destinations. Love brought you together and joined your
separate paths into one. Each of your friends and family here today have

selected a rock that represents their presence at your wedding today. You

also each have a rock which you selected to symbolize your separate lives
and the separate life's journeys you once traveled. I will now ask that

everyone please take out your rock and make a wish or blessing for
<Names of Couple> and the future of their marriage. Everyone pauses to

make their wish. Now, we will collect the rocks and the couple will then
add their rocks to the container also. With the combining of these rocks,

you have now symbolically joined your once separate lives.

Credit: Elegant Express Photography As the rocks filled with love are combined into one container, so now are
your friends and family joined, through you, into one. And your once solitary life's paths are also now one. All

that was once separate is now shared, and in this sharing you both will find new strength and joy as together you
forge a new life's path and destination.

Unity Candle
The two outside tapers represent the two individual lives of < Names

of Couple>. As they join now in marriage, there is a merging of these

two lights into one light, these two lives into one shared life. The
lighting of the Unity Candle represents the oneness of this union and

the eternal flame of love that burns within these two hearts.
< Names of Couple> as you have joined your two lives together, may

this candle symbolize your two hearts united in one life. From now
on your thoughts shall be for each other, your plans shall be mutual,

your joys and sorrows shall be shared alike. As you each take a

candle and together light the center one, you will extinguish your
own candles. (Couple lights the center candle, then return to stand

before Officiant). May the radiance of this one light be a testimony
of your love, commitment and fidelity to one another, now and

always.
Credit: Sarah Goss Photography Austin TX
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