Unity Wine Blending Ceremonies

Unity
Wine Blending

Ceremonies

Table of Contents

Wine Blending Ceremony - Civil I ····································· 3
Wine Blending Ceremony - Religious I ······························· 4

Conventions: For simplicity’s sake, the terms Bride and Groom are used to indicate the side on
which the individual stands. Traditionally, from the perspective of the guests, the Bride stands
on the left and the Groom stands on the right.

Wine Blending Ceremony

Civil I

(The Ceremony Table is directly behind the Officiant. On the Ceremony Table there is one wine glass and two
individual carafes of wine, one red and one white.)
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, will you please step to the Ceremony Table.
(The Officiant steps behind the Ceremony Table. The Couple steps to the sides of the Ceremony Table. A musical
selection may play softly during the following:)

Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ are going to perform a Unity Wine Blending
Ceremony as a symbol of their marriage. One carafe contains red wine representing the deep
richness of the love in their hearts. The other carafe contains white wine representing the strength of a
loving marriage. They will combine some of the two wines into the common cup, creating a rosé,
which is symbolic of their blending together through a committed relationship in marriage. Some of
the wine will remain in their individual carafes which represents that each of them remain separate
individuals.
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, please pour some of the wine from your carafe
into the Common Cup.

(The volume of the music may be turned up as the Couple takes their separate carafes and pours some of the wine into
the Common Cup, leaving some wine in each carafe. After the couple pours their wine into their separate carafes, the
volume of the music is turned down again during the following:)

Officiant: Although you are two distinct persons you have chosen to unite your lives and to seek
your happiness together. You drink from the same cup as a sign of your unity.

(Officiant picks up Common Cup.)

Officiant: Drink now, and may the cup of your lives be sweet and full to overflowing.

(The volume of the music may be turned up again as the Officiant hands Common Cup to the Groom, who drinks, and
then the Groom hands it to Bride, who drinks. The music fades and stops as the Couple and the Officiant return to
their previous places.)

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Wine Blending Ceremony

Religious I

(The Ceremony Table is directly behind the Officiant. On the Ceremony Table there is one wine glass and two individ-
ual carafes of wine, one red and one white.)

Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, will you please step to the Ceremony Table.

(The Officiant steps behind the Ceremony Table. The Couple steps to the sides of the Ceremony Table. A musical
selection may play softly during the following:)

Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____ are going to perform a Unity Wine Blending
Ceremony as a symbol of their marriage. One carafe contains red wine representing the deep richness
of the love in their hearts. The other carafe contains white wine representing the strength of a loving
marriage. They will combine some of the two wines into the common cup, creating a rosé, which is
symbolic of their blending together through a committed relationship in marriage. Some of the wine
will remain in their individual carafes which represents that each of them remain separate individuals.
Officiant: ___(Groom)_____ and ___(Bride)_____, please pour some of the wine from your carafe
into the Common Cup.

(The volume of the music may be turned up as the Couple takes their separate carafes and pours some of the wine into
the Common Cup, leaving some wine in each carafe. After the couple pours their wine into their separate carafes, the
volume of the music is turned down again during the following:)

Officiant: Bless and sanctify, O Lord, this cup and the wine it holds. Endow it with Your perpetual
blessing that whoever tastes of it may be worthy of eternal joy with You. May those who partake be
joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer and devoted to one another in love.

(Officiant picks up Common Cup.)

Officiant: Drink now and may the rich love you have for each other be with you always.

(The volume of the music may be turned up again as the Officiant hands Common Cup to the Groom, who drinks, and
then the Groom hands it to Bride, who drinks. The music fades and stops as the Couple and the Officiant return to
their previous places.)

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