The Box Wine Ceremony
Meaning - This ceremony is a promise that the couple make to one another to not
walk away quickly from their marriage if they run into hard times.
Time - about 3 to 5 minutes in length
Supplies
- Wooden Box that can be nailed shut or locked
- Nails and Hammer or a Lock
- Two glasses
- Bottle of Wine (or your favorite drink)
- Love letters to each other written by the couple before the ceremony
Placement - Typically at the end of the wedding ceremony, after the Ring Ceremony but before the Declaration.
Variations - Couples can change the beverage to their favorite type of drink. Couple can have the box sealed by their loved ones as a show of suppport.
Example of the wording for this Enhancement:
Spoken by the Officiant
_____ and _____, you have decided to conclude your wedding with a Box Wine Ceremony.
You have brought here today a strong wooden box. This box will hold a bottle of wine and two glasses. In addition, this box will hold love letters that you each have written to the other.
These letters express your thoughts on today’s wedding, they share details about the good qualities that you have found in each other, and they include the reasons that you fell in love with one another. You have kept your letters to yourselves and they are sealed in individual envelopes.
_____ and _____, should you ever find your marriage enduring serious difficulties, you agree that before you make any irrational decisions, that you both, as a couple, will open the box, drink the bottle of wine together, and then venture off into separates rooms to read the letters that you wrote to one another when you were united as a couple.
By reading these love letters, you will be given an opportunity to reflect upon the reasons that you fell in love with each other in the first place.
Of course, the hope is that there will never be a reason for you to open this box. If that is the case then you can have it to open together on your 25th anniversary!
_____ and _____, I now ask that each of you take a nail, one at a time, and hammer the box shut.