3 Ways to Include Your Love of Wine in Your Wedding Ceremony

Are you looking for something different to represent your relationship and marriage? You want something to speak to your interests and don’t want to include unity candles or sand-blending. Getting married at a vineyard? Love to go to wine tastings? Then you might want to consider one of these unity ceremonies.

1. Wine Sharing

This is done after the sharing of vows and the exchange of rings. Your wedding officiant talks about how marriage is like a good wine. It requires care to keep it from turning sour but just like a good wine, marriage gets better with age. Just like a good wine a marriage requires many elements and careful handling.

As part of the ceremony you and your partner share your first glass of wine as a married couple, with your wedding officiant pouring the wine for you. Then each of you assist the other in taking their first drink.

Some couples include sharing a loaf of bread at this time. When you share bread and wine, it is representative of having your first meal as a married couple.

2. Wine Blending

Some couples ask to do a wine blending ceremony. They will combine a white wine with a red wine to represent how they blend their differences to form a marriage. Other couples, especially wine aficionados, cringe at the thought of blending white and red wines.

3. Wine and Letter Box

Another ceremony that is gaining in popularity is the wine and letter box. Some folks might call it “your first fight box”. We believe that if you have come to your wedding day and have not yet had a fight, perhaps you should reconsider if you know one another well enough to get married! We also don’t like to focus on fighting in a marriage on your wedding day.

We focus this ceremony on the importance of communication and commitment. We encourage each couple to write a heartfelt love letter to place in a box containing a bottle of wine. On your 5th wedding anniversary, open the box and read the love letter written by your partner and share the bottle of wine. Spend time talking about your marriage, where you have grown and goals for the next 5 years. You can then place another letter in the box with a fresh bottle of wine and clean glasses and do this again for your 10th anniversary.

This ritual encourages good communication which is vital to a successful marriage. It also reminds you of where you have been and where you want to go in your relationship.

Ask your professional wedding officiant for other suggestions for ways to honor your interests in your wedding ceremony. Give us a call at 336-259-7236 or email us for help in having exactly the unique wedding ceremony you want.