When a couple marries, so do their families, including their little ones and their soon-to-be step kids, creating one beautiful blended family. Of course, before the wedding ceremony, the family members have agreed and prepared to blend officially.
Blending two families on the day of the wedding is both exciting and thrilling, and here are 8 meaningful ways to incorporate blended family into your wedding.
Traditional Ceremonies
Candle Ceremony
If you’re one of those families who like to keep traditions, candle lighting has been one of the ancient ceremonies since the dawn of time. With this family blending ceremony, all the family members get a candle and, beginning with the bride and groom, pass the flames to each person to signify their unity.
Blanket Ceremony
Another traditional ceremony is wrapping the couple with a blanket made by the members of each family. It symbolizes their unity as a family by working together to sew a wonderful piece that ties their bonds. The blanket also signifies their families’ warm and loving acceptance of the couple’s oneness.
Family Sand Ritual
The family sand ritual is a literal and visual representation of family members blending. The sand ritual is a traditional and most common ceremony with the candle ceremony. Even today, many blended families still use the sand ritual. Each family member will have a cup with different colored sands during the ritual. They will each pour their cup of sand and mix it.
Family Jewelry Presentation
Our last traditional family blending ceremony is matching jewelry to each family member. If a bride and groom exchange rings to signify their unity, then it seems just right to present matching rings, pendants, or pins to each other.
Creative Ceremonies
Family Fingerprint Necklace
Now we move on to the more fun and creative ways to blend your families during your wedding, and the family fingerprint necklace is one of them. The fingerprint necklace presents a pendant where each family member’s fingerprints are engraved in an updated version of the family jewelry presentation.
Unity Puzzle
Another creative and quirky visual ceremony is putting together a unity puzzle. It often comprises different shapes like hearts or circles. With the unity puzzle, each family member gets a puzzle piece that they can even decorate to their liking and put together to make a shape that signifies their unity.
Candy Blending Ritual
Perhaps the family wants a little twist to the traditional ceremonies. If so, then the candy blending ritual is the perfectly updated version of the sand ritual. For this ceremony, each family member gets a container of all the candies they like and pours them into a larger one to have a sweeter representation of blended families.
Blended Painting Ritual
Finally, here’s a family blending ceremony for the more artistic ones. The blended family painting is similar to creating a freedom wall painting, except it celebrates its unity on a smaller scale. Sometimes, painting rituals can be quick and simple, like leaving hand marks on a canvas. Others can spend more time and be more elaborate about it. Whichever the family prefers, what matters is creating art together to unify their families.
Final Thoughts
A wedding is more than a couple’s unity. It’s a ceremony where families officially become one. Attaining a harmonious and well-blended family takes years to form, and to incorporate your kids and step-kids is a start.
The most important part of these beautiful blending ceremonies is hiring professional wedding photographers to capture these intimate moments. Epik Weddings can help you relive every special moment of your wedding day with the help of our wedding videographers and photographers; all you have to do is give us a call.
