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Increasingly popular both indoors and outdoor wedding ceremonies, sand blending ceremony is often used as a substitute for unity candle ceremony. Here are the steps that go into the sand blending ceremony:

• In enacting the sand blending ceremony, the bride and groom will use one large container as the unity or family container, and two smaller containers as the individual containers.

• When the wedding ceremony takes place on the beach, the favoured containers are a large sea shell as the family container, and smaller seashells containing the sands used by the bride and groom.

• The sea shells are not as easy to find as they should be, and many bride and groom use such substitute containers as transparent glasses, vases and vials for the blending of sand wedding ceremony.

• To  be most effective, the large family container is placed in the middle of a small table, with the smaller containers on each side.

• When the wedding ceremony is being conducted, the couple stand behind the table so that all the guests can see the pouring of the sands. 

• The sands might be plain, or they might consist of coloured sand for visual effect.

• When children are involved in the sand-blending wedding ceremony, the sands might be poured by the bride and groom and the children together.

• When the wedding includes several children from each side of the family, the sand might be first poured in by the bride and groom, then by the groom's children, and then by the bride's children.

• The pouring of sand should be done unhurriedly, and the action could be backed by appropriate background music.

• Some practicalities to watch is that the openings of all containers are not too narrow. If the wedding ceremony is out of doors, also watch the strength of the wind so that the sand isn't diverted before it gets into the family container.

• Apart from using the local sand, there are also numerous colours which can be chosen, including a different colour for the bride and groom, and for each of the children.

• Another idea chosen by some couples is that the sand used is from the area in which the bride and groom come from.

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