The Wine Ceremony
Meaning - This ceremony visually depicts how the couple is joining their lives
Time - About 1 minute
Supplies:
- Large Carafe
- 2 smaller carafes or wine glasses
- A small serving of White Wine
- A small serving of Red Wine
Placement - This Ceremony Enhancement usually happens after the Ring Ceremony before the Pronouncement
Variations: The wedding processional include the attendants carrying the wines to the front alter area or the ceremony supplies could already be set up on a table.
Example of the wording for this Enhancement:
Spoke by the Officiant
_____ and _____, you each are represented by one of these glasses of wine. Will you each pick up your glass and bring to mind your promises, the honor and integrity with which you have made them and your shared hopes and dreams… and toast to one another?
Action
Couple raises their glasses toast and drink
Now please offer of yourself and your promises to the center glass.
Action
Bride and Groom pour the remaining of their wine into the center glass
If you will now pick up the center glass, the one that was just an empty vessel before the strength of your promises and your love for one another was added, and drink of one another’s vows, of your shared commitment, and take these in that they as your marriage may become a part of the very fabric of who and what you are.
Action
_____ and _____ then together pick up the center glass, each with both hands on the glass, they then together drink from it.
As the wines in the glass have intermingled their essence so do your spirits now join as you drink of each others love. Neither of you shall ever again thirst for total Love, understanding, or companionship, for as food and drink nourish the body so does Love nourish the soul. In this manner so shall each of you be as sustenance to the other.