Ideas for unity candles & wedding decorations

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Details are what often personalize a couple's wedding ceremony and reception. Such details could be used to decorate a couple's unity candle, which is often purchased plain, and then repeated elsewhere in the couple's wedding dé-cor. Rhinestones, flowers, and ribbon can be used in various ways, for example, to decorate place cards, reception tables, bouquets, programs or wedding favors.

1. Rhinestones

   • Give a unity candle added sparkle by gluing rhinestones onto it. The small gems can spell out the bride and groom's initials or their monogram, which includes their first initials and the first letter of their new, shared last name. Or the rhinestones can be used to make a heart or the shape of intertwining wedding rings on the candle. For an easier unity candle decoration, glue rhinestones to the unity candle somewhat randomly, covering all sides of the candle. Add a single rhinestone in the center of each tall taper candle or evenly space several rhinestones along the entire length of each taper candle.

     Bring rhinestones into other wedding dé-cor by having some sewn into the bodice of the bride's dress, by decorating place cards with a rhinestone on either side of the guests' names, and by sprinkling rhinestones on each of the reception tables.

   Flowers

   • Use the bridal flowers as inspiration for a ring of fresh or silk flowers to decorate the base of the unity candle. Wildflowers, like daisies and lavender, might work well for this unity candle decoration. Stephanotis is another option. These small, white, star-shaped flowers are a popular choice for floral wedding dé-cor.

     Since flowers used to make a ring around a unity candle will likely be too small to be featured in table centerpieces at the reception, use clip art images of any unity candle ring flowers to decorate place cards, programs, and wedding favor tags.

   Ribbon

   • Simply tie a ribbon around the unity candle for an easy, elegant appearance. The ribbon can be one of the wedding colors, or a color that symbolizes something important to the couple. For example, pink symbolizes love and beauty, yellow symbolizes joy and happiness, green symbolizes nature and fertility, blue symbolizes truth and peace, white symbolizes purity, and purple symbolizes magic and mystery. Couples could choose any of these colors to adorn their unity candle and include a note in their wedding programs explaining the significance of the chosen color and how the couple hopes to incorporate what the color symbolizes into their married life.

     The same color ribbon could be used as part of the bride's dress, or to tie the bride or bridesmaids' bouquets, or to tie closed any wedding favor bags.

Source: www.ehow.com

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