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Wedding rehearsals can help couples seeking to tie the knot in Oklahoma City with a beautiful wedding ceremony. They are especially important and helpful for couples who have never been married before and who do not have wedding coordinators or event planners to help them navigate what can sometimes turn into a confusing process. Whether it is a smaller elopement ceremony package, a courthouse wedding, or a larger wedding ceremony package that we offer, it never hurts to pay the small extra fee and hire a wedding officiant to help practice the marriage ceremony first with a run-through. It really helps smooth out the rough edges and make the whole process smoother on the couple’s big day!
Our wedding couples really love having special wedding ceremony ritual enhancements that add to the quality and significance of their nuptials. Indeed, there are many different types of ceremony enhancements that couples feel add special meaning to their marriage ceremonies. These include, but are not limited to, the following:
Grains of sand are tiny and, once you mix them together with other grains of sand, are extremely difficult to separate. The same holds true for a bride and groom, and bride and bride, two grooms, or nonbinary partners who tie the knot and become newlyweds. Once joined together in matrimony, it becomes extremely difficult to separate the blending of their lives as they join as one stronger, unified couple.
Our Oklahoma wedding ministers love helping wedding couples enjoy unity sand ceremonies, because they get to choose their colors of sand and cooperatively complete their first task together as a married couple while in front of everyone. This special ritual carries special significance, and our wedding officiant in Oklahoma City allows the married couple to take home the container with the blended sand after the completion of the marriage ceremony. That way they have a special memory to bring back with them and enjoy as a reminder of their special day for the rest of their lives.
Unity wine ceremonies are like unity sand ceremonies, but the blending involves wine instead of sand. The wine may be the healthier sweet red or can also be white or a blend of both. Couples can inquire with our ordained ministers in advance to see what options are available, and our female owned organization will happily explain all the options couples have at their disposal.
Unity wine ceremonies occur when the couple takes two different types of wine, such as red and white or two different flavors of red or white wine. They then mix their container of wine with their spouses into two wine glasses and help their partner drink from their respective wine glasses in front of everyone. As with unity sand ceremonies, the blending of the two types of wine make the different flavors/types of wine impossible to separate.
The same holds true for the newlyweds, because just as blended wine or sand is extremely difficult to separate, so, too, are the lives of a stronger, unified, married couple. Our justice of the peace at Lifelong Wedding Ceremonies does her absolute best to help couples bind their lives together in a very public, special way that will carry meaning for decades.
While no special memento exists for the couple to take home after the ceremony, both spouses do get to enjoy a nice, tasty, refreshing glass of wine during their nuptials that helps them enjoy extra relation. Indeed, since many brides, grooms, and nonbinary partners get nervous during wedding ceremonies, a little wine can certainly help calm the marriage jitters. Our wedding chaplains in OKC do not have any issue with the couple keeping the wine glasses in which they blended their lives together via the unity wine ceremony.
Our marriage officiants also offer unity candle ceremonies to wedding couples who hire an ordained minister through our organization. This is like the unity wine ceremonies and unity sand ceremonies we offer, with the exception that this wedding ritual also involves two smaller candles and a larger candle. The couple begins by holding each of their separate candles and lighting each other’s smaller candles, and then together they light the larger, wider candle together at the same time.
Instead of blending sand or wine, the couple uses unity flames to represent the forging of their nuptials as newlyweds. Indeed, fire is a powerful elemental symbol, and our gay wedding officiants note that the inclusion of unity candle ceremonies, also referred to as two flames become one ceremony, add to the enjoyment and flow of noteworthy marriage ceremonies in Edmond, OK.
Our marriage ministers note that they must be careful not to light any hair or clothing on fire during this special ceremony, but we have never yet seen this happen in any of our wedding ceremonies in Oklahoma City. All couples have been incredibly careful and seem to enjoy the intimacy and closeness this wedding ritual brings to the overall environment of the wedding.
Scottish handfastings are yet another special ritual that brides, grooms, and nonbinary spouses can enjoy. This marriage ritual involves the binding of two future spouses’ hands together, while asking them to repeat some pledges and promises to one another. This special wedding ceremony enhancement goes back many centuries, and it symbolizes that the couple is going from being two separate individuals to one more unified, stronger married couple.
Our LGBTQIA+ wedding ministers, especially those whose ancestors hail from countries like Scotland and the United Kingdom as a confederation of countries. Indeed, some of our justices of the peace at Lifelong Wedding Ceremonies with Scottish ancestry will even perform the handfasting ritual with a Scottish accent, if you ask them nicely. Indeed, this is an especially important marriage ceremony enhancement, because handfastings are steeped in both meaning and history as a way for couples to enjoy a more meaningful commitment ceremony to one another.
Our lesbian ordained ministers are also more than happy to perform a special wedding ritual known as “jumping the broom” for people seeking to tie the knot. If a couple seeking to get married can successfully jump over the broom together in public, then they are considered to have successfully tied the knot together as newlyweds. Originating in the 1700s in Wales, this also became popular wedding ritual for American slaves in the 1800s that evil slaveowners even went so far as to ban. Indeed, this special, sacred act symbolizes the couple’s sweeping away of the past, focusing on their love and continued commitment to one another.
If one or both members of a couple trying to get married happens to accidentally touch the broom while attempting to jump over it in person, they must not worry. Marriage chaplains at Lifelong Wedding Ceremonies are not rigid, uptight jerks. Our wedding staff will happily allow the couple to jump as many times as they need. We can also lower the height of the broom, so they do not have to jump as high, if needed. Indeed, the couple’s intentions during the wedding ceremony count significantly more than their ability to jump high.
Other couples opt for a three-cord ritual for their spiritual marriage ceremony or religious wedding ceremonies. This occurs when the couple gently weaves three cords into one, with each of the three cords representing the following:
Purple symbolizes a higher power, which Christians often call God. Spiritual and religious brides, grooms, and nonbinary partners often wish to fully integrate God into their lives and thus their marriages. So, this color represents what for them is a vital part of any lasting, happy marriage.
Fortunately, nowadays we still have marriage equality, even though conservatives work feverishly to deny basic marriage rights to others like lesbian and gay couples. Thus, the gold cord color traditionally symbolizes the groom’s devotion, faith, and leadership in heterosexual marriages, but when there are two men, two women, or one or more nonbinary or gender fluid people getting married together, then it can symbolize one of those people as well.
The white color signifies the female’s love, purity, and faith in God. Purity can mean different things to different people, as can any of the other terms and designations give to the people that this color has historically represented. Once again, since our society fortunately still allows all consenting adults to marry, the color white in a three-cord ceremony can also symbolize a male or nonbinary partner who is joining into the marital union.
Our marriage ministers can also perform 3-cord ceremony rituals for pagans, people of other faith backgrounds, and even non-religious individuals. There are a plethora of ways to adapt this special marriage enhancement ceremony into ways which will surely complement any religious or non-religious marriage ceremony.
Another favored wedding ritual that our wedding officiants near me particularly enjoy is the ring warming ceremony. This is when the couple takes their wedding rings and hand them to others to rub and warm, saying blessings and/or prayers as they do to help get the newlyweds started on the best possible footing in their marriage. Ring warmings do not require any other additional costs or expenses outside of the rings themselves, and our officiants are all well-versed in this special type of marriage ritual for all interested couples.
The blanket wrapping ceremony is one with Native American culture and society. Indeed, during the Oklahoma wedding ceremony, the family members, friends, and other loved ones of the newlyweds wrap a special blanket around the couple at the same time, speaking blessings and kind words to and upon them as they do so. The wrapping signifies the couple’s existence and recognition as a family unit, and our marriage officiants at Lifelong Wedding Ceremonies will take great care to diligently work with the family and properly incorporate the appropriate cultural and social considerations.
Our gay ordained ministers and event planners at Lifelong Wedding Ceremonies will gladly help you, no matter the size or location. We specialize in all types of weddings, and our chaplains will do their utmost best to help you and your loved ones enjoy the best possible wedding ceremony experience on your special day. Please see why so many couples seeking to get married choose us over others.
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