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 bride and groom each take a carafe of wine and each pour some into a single glass, which they both drink from. May the lights of your own special lives continue to feed the new flame of love which will fuel your future together - through all its hopes and disappointments, its successes and failures, its pleasures and its pains, its joys and its sorrows - a future filled with the warmth and love of the flame you share today." May you also continue to recognize that separateness from which your relationship has sprung. (During Candle Lighting) "On this day you make a new light together, symbolizing the two becoming one. Sample reading for candle ceremony: (prompt) “And now, _ and _, it is time to light your candles.” Or, “And now it is time for the candles of unity.” This variation typically includes a proclamation that this ceremony represents the unity of friends and family supporting the couple in their marriage. Guests pass the flame until all are lit, and then the bride and groom together light their unity candle. Variation 3: All guests are given a candle, and the first guest's is lit. Then bride and groom turn, with candles in hand, to light the unity candle with the candles they received. At the same time, groom's mother passes her candle to the last groomsman, ceremoniously passing the candle up the line to the groom. Variation 2: Bride's mother passes a lit candle to last bridesmaid, and the candle is passed ceremoniously up the line to the bride. Fathers light the mother's candles, then mother's use those candles to light bride and groom candles followed by bride and groom lighting the larger unity candle with their respective candles. Variation 1: Each mother holds an unlit candle. The bride and groom each take a lit candle and simultaneously light a third larger "unity candle." They may blow out their individual lights, or leave them lit, symbolizing that they have not lost their individuality in their unity.
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