Unity candle

Recently I've been thinking more about the ceremony part of my wedding. As it won't be a religious ceremony it will be quite short. But I have been exploring ways to make it a bit more special than just vows, great your done.

One that I particularly like is the idea of a unity candle. This is where you have a large candle which the bride and groom light using smaller indiviudal candles to show them coming together as one. The couple can then extiguish their individual candle or leave them burning to show although they are together they are still independt and have serperate idenities.

This seems like a really nice idea to me, and you obviously keep the candles afterwards as a keep sake. My thoughts are that if you did it a certain way you could have the central candle as a 'family' candle, so that when we have children thay have their own individual candle. Then all three/ four/ however many of us to light the central one, again replacing a religious ceremony but still making a special occasion to signify an important event.