absentis Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 i'm looking for simple "commitment ceremony" ideas -- NOT anything like an official marriage, or any big party with friends and family -- but more of an intimate exchange between my partner and i, to show our commitment to one another. something more interesting, creative, and symbolic than exchanging rings or vows (it's just not really our style). any ideas!? thanks so much!
sunshinegirl Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 (edited) I'm not a terribly creative person (while we designed our own wedding ceremony, it had some pretty traditional elements to it). I'm not totally clear what you want to have happen at your event. If you're not exchanging vows, are you exchanging any words or promises to signify your commitment, or are you looking for non-verbal or non-direct ways of expressing this commitment? Will anyone else be present for it? How about readings? There's some great stuff out there. One of our readings was Your Laughter, by Pablo Neruda. Do you have joint visions for the world, or activities or hobbies that you share and want to incorporate? Friends of ours who are getting married this year are asking friends to help make 1000 paper cranes, signifying peace. Hopefully others will come along with some ideas. Beyond cranes or planting a tree together, I'm sort of coming up short. Good luck! Edited February 15, 2011 by sunshinegirl
Lauriebell82 Posted February 15, 2011 Posted February 15, 2011 i'm looking for simple "commitment ceremony" ideas -- NOT anything like an official marriage, or any big party with friends and family -- but more of an intimate exchange between my partner and i, to show our commitment to one another. something more interesting, creative, and symbolic than exchanging rings or vows (it's just not really our style). any ideas!? thanks so much! My sister-in-law and her husband did something at their wedding that was very creative and unique...it could be used in a comittment ceremony for sure. SIL had white sand, her husband had black sand, both in seperate vases. They poured the sand into a bigger vase at the same time as a way of "combining" the sand, symbolic in teh fact that they were combining their lives. It was a play on the whole "unity candle" idea.
Author absentis Posted February 16, 2011 Author Posted February 16, 2011 yes, i've looked into handfasting, and i really like the sand idea! thanks so much.
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