Comments on: Ring-warming ceremony

By: angela sackett

angela sackett — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 01:42:49 +0000

We are wedding photographers and my husband is a pastor who has performed many weddings; we saw this at a wedding recently – it was the neatest addition to a ceremony we've ever seen. It was intimate and placed the focus on the couple and gave the friends and families a chance to actively share in the sacredness and sweetness of the day. It gave some really neat images, too, of a true emotional connection from the family to the couple! We plan to recommend this to other couples – although everyone had a valid point about dropping the rings! At our friends' recent outdoor wedding we thought, "It wouldn't be good for those rings to drop into the grass!"

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:57:01 +0000

Ooh, you just gave me a great idea…a two-person straw! You wouldn't be able to drink from a Y-shaped straw alone; you both need to work together in order to drink. It's a great metaphor for marriage.

I thought for sure someone would have thought of this already, but a google search turns up nothing.

By: Sully

Sully — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:06:55 +0000

We had a ring warming ceremony and while it was new to our guests, everyone loved it. Especially me! I feel like our rings are extra special now.
Our wedding was held outside in January in Canada… brrrr! So we asked our guests to literally warm the rings with their hands while symbolically warming them with their love and good wishes for our marriage as they passed them.
I was slightly nervous about them being dropped as we were on a bridge over a river with little gaps in the boards… but didnt want to attach them to anything. We tied them together with a couple pieces of thin ribbon so they stayed together and were a little more substantial and colorful. And I let go of worrying about it!

By: SalaciousD

SalaciousD — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:44:47 +0000

what about with a soup broth? Or locally made cider? Mexican hot chocolate? Heck, you can customize it, fer sher!

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 03:25:48 +0000

My aunt's wedding had a ring-warming cermony, she had her ring bearer hold the pillow and as everyone was filing into the church, they blessed it.

By: rja

rja — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:20:46 +0000

Some friends of mine just did a "unity volcano" at their recent wedding.
Yep, the elementary school red dyed vinegar and baking soda type.
It totally reflected their personalities and still got the point across

By: Jes

Jes — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:26:26 +0000

An idea that my fiancee and I stumbled upon and have incorporated is the Yoruban Tasting Ceremony. the couple feed each other four different elements, signifying different facets of married life: sweet for the happy moments, sour for the disagreements and arguments, bitter for the times of hardship and loss, and spicy for times of passion. The ceremony symbolizes the couple's commitment to support and nurture each other through all of life's events.

I thought that was pretty neat.

By: jenna

jenna — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:50:21 +0000

i love this ring warming idea. i also really like the idea of passing around small stones or marbles to collect later in a jar. i never heard of ring warming before, but it sounds like a very touching ceremony
i would probably affix the rings to a favorite book or record so that no one would drop them!

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:30:36 +0000

A unity instant milkshake would be great – pour the milk, add the powder/syrup, stir together, drink out of 2 straws!

By: bobbie-sue

bobbie-sue — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 03:03:40 +0000

Friends of ours had an usher pass around small stones to each guest to hold in their hands and infuse with their good wishes, and at the end of the ceremony the stones were collected in a jar for the couple to have as a reminder.

We are planning something similar, but with a twist: at the entrance to the ceremony will be a table with clear glass votive holders containing candles, single flowers, feathers, etc. (originally it was going to be just candles, might still be) and an attendant will ask each guest to carry the item of their choice up to the "alter" (display shelf behind where the officiant and couple will stand) infusing it with their wishes for the couple, and making a beautiful backdrop for our ceremony.

A good friend had a small wedding in a tiny old school house. She had requested no decorations, but the empty chalk boards were calling out for flowers, so the guests organically started drawing flowers for them (one was a venus fly trap with "crunch crunch" written near it) as we waited for the ceremony to come. It was beautiful and the bride loved it.