Beach Sand Ceremony

[Bride & Groom each hold a small vial of beach sand...]

(Bride's Name) and (Groom's Name), even though you come to this ceremony as unique individuals, today you blend yourselves in spirit and personality to bond and strengthen the future that you will build together.

It is to symbolize this blending that you now take these containers of beach sand to mingle them together -- as though pouring your separate selves inseparably into each other and becoming one.

(Bride and Groom slowly pour their sand together)

As you now pour your sand together, your lives also are this vividly joined as one. And just as each grain of this sand maintains its own space, never losing itself and yet ever losing itself amid the goodness of the whole sand -- so will your marriage and your family be.

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