The Unity Sand Ceremony is a celebration that is usually two to three minutes in length and is a meaningful symbolic joining of two lives.
In this timeless ritual of marriage, the couple ceremoniously pours two colors of sand from separate containers into one, special container, which is known as the unity vase. It symbolizes their coming together as one. The vase provides a way for couples, during their wedding ceremony, to brilliantly show the joining of the flow of their two lives into a single stream with their individually colored sands joining as one in the Unity Vase.
The flowing sand and blending of the colors in the Unity Sand Ceremony symbolize the bringing together of two lives into one. The blending of the sand represents the union not only of them but their friends and families as well. The separate sands once poured into the unity vase can never be put back into their separate vases. They are forever entwined just as the lives and loves of the couple.
Some couples prefer to leave a small amount of sand in their respective container to show that even though they now function as one, they remain individuals.