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Wine Ceremonies |
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Unity Wine Ceremony – Civil I
(The Ceremony Table is directly behind Officiant. On the Ceremony Table there is one wine glass and two individual carafes of wine, one red and one white.)
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, will you please step forward to the Ceremony Table.
(Officiant steps behind the Ceremony Table. Bride and Groom step to the sides of the Ceremony Table. A musical selection may play softly during the following:)
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ are going to perform a Unity Wine Ceremony as a symbol of their marriage. One carafe contains red wine representing the deep richness of the love in their hearts and the robust energy which keeps their loving relationship going. The other carafe contains white wine, fermented in oak barrels, it represents the strength of a loving marriage and a lingering taste in their soul for the love they feel for each other. They will combine some of the two wines into the common cup, creating a rosé, which is symbolic of their blending together through a committed relationship in marriage. Some of the wine will remain in their individual carafes which represents that each of them remain separate individuals.
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, you will now pour some of the wine from your carafe into the Common Cup.
(The volume of the music may be turned up as the Bride and Groom take their separate carafes and pours some of the wine into the Common Cup, leaving some wine in each carafe. After the couple pours their wine into their separate carafes, the volume of the music is turned down again during the following: )
Officiant: This cup is a sign of your unity. Although you are two distinct persons, both respecting the equal dignity of the other, you have chosen to unite your lives and to seek your happiness together. You drink from the same cup to be reminded that you will share pain and pleasure, struggle and hope.
(Officiant picks up Common Cup.)
Officiant: Drink now, and may the cup of your lives be sweet and full to overflowing.
(The volume of the music may be turned up again as Officiant hands Common Cup to Groom who drinks and then hands it to Bride who drinks.)
(Bride and Groom then return to their previous places in front of the Ceremony Table, after which Officiant moves back to his/her previous position in front of couple.) |
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Unity Wine Ceremony – Civil II
(The Ceremony Table is directly behind Officiant. On the Ceremony Table there is one wine glass and two individual carafes of wine, one red and one white.)
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, please step forward to the Ceremony Table.
(Officiant steps behind the Ceremony Table. Bride and Groom step to the sides of the Ceremony Table. A musical selection may play softly during the following:)
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ shall now perform a Unity Wine Ceremony. The wine sharing ceremony is a delightful ceremony embracing traditions that began well before the medieval period. During those times a bride and groom would celebrate their pledge to each other by drinking wine from a single cup which symbolized one blood, one family and one kin. The wine ceremony that ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ will perform today is a visual representation of the joining of these two very special people.
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ these two carafes of wine represent your individual spirits; all that you are, all that you have been, and all that you will become. This Common Cup in the center is your marriage. It is the place where you are forever blending your lives together. It represents the joining of two spirits, two lives, two souls.
Officiant: As you pour your wine, keep in mind the pledge you made to each other today. It is the pledge of the truth and purity of your every breath, the constant friendship of your hearts. The passion 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.
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, you will now pour some of the wine from your carafe into the Common Cup.
(The volume of the music may be turned up as the Bride and Groom take their separate carafes and pours some of the wine into the common cup, leaving some wine in each carafe.)
(Officiant picks up Common Cup and the volume of the music is turned down again during the following:)
Officiant: Now your two individual lives are combined, like the two wines. You are choosing to blend your lives together and yet, you are still individuals, you remain yourselves. Drink now in celebration of your pledge and the blending of your lives.
(The volume of the music may be turned up again as Officiant hands Common Cup to Groom who drinks and then hands it to Bride who drinks.)
(Bride and Groom then return to their previous places in front of the Ceremony Table, after which Officiant moves back to his/her previous position in front of couple.)
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Unity Wine Ceremony – Religious I
(The Ceremony Table is directly behind Officiant. On the Ceremony Table there is one wine glass and two individual carafes of wine, one red and one white.)
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, will you please step forward to the Ceremony Table.
(Officiant steps behind the Ceremony Table. Bride and Groom step to the sides of the Ceremony Table. A musical selection may play softly during the following:)
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ are going to perform a Unity Wine Ceremony as a symbol of their marriage. One carafe contains red wine representing the deep richness of the love in their hearts and the robust energy which keeps their loving relationship going. The other carafe contains white wine, fermented in oak barrels, it represents the strength of a loving marriage and a lingering taste in their soul for the love they feel for each other. They will combine some of the two wines into the common cup, creating a rosé, which is symbolic of their blending together through a committed relationship in marriage. Some of the wine will remain in their individual carafes which represents that each of them remain separate individuals. Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, you will now pour some of the wine from your carafe into the Common Cup.
(The volume of the music may be turned up as the Bride and Groom take their separate carafes and pours some of the wine into the Common Cup, leaving some wine in each carafe. After the couple pours their wine into their separate carafes, the volume of the music is turned down again during the following: )
Officiant: Bless, O Lord, this drink and this cup. And as Thou didst bless the six stone vases in Cana of Galilee and made wine out of water, so too deign to bless and sanctify this drink and this cup with Thy perpetual blessing: that whoever tastes of it may come to prosperity in the present age and be worthy of eternal joy in the next. Who livest and reignest with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.
Officiant: Amen.
(Officiant picks up Common Cup.)
Officiant: May the robust energy, strength, and rich love you have for each other be with you always. You may now share the Common Cup.
(The volume of the music may be turned up again as Officiant hands Common Cup to Groom who drinks and then hands it to Bride who drinks.)
(Bride and Groom then return to their previous places in front of the Ceremony Table, after which Officiant moves back to his/her previous position in front of couple.) |
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