Unity candle holders

Wedding and unity candle holders provide support to a vital part of the wedding celebration.

The music floats through the air and your eyes flit across the setting, from the tuxedoed ushers to their corsages to the minutest details like the unity candle holders. She told you not to cry, teased you and told you that she knew you would tear up because you’re so emotional, so sentimental. She chuckled when you presented her with the homemade candles you made and your eyes got misty. “Mom, it’s not even the wedding day and you’re already crying!”

After months and months of preparation, that day is finally here, the day she’ll go from being your baby girl to a grown-up with her own husband, her own future, and, one day, her own daughter. It’s taken massive amounts of organization to get to this point, you look over everything again to make sure it’s all in place, and again, your eyes fall on the handmade candles supported by the unity candle holders on the altar. Those homemade candles you spent hours making, ensuring they were exactly what she wanted.

You think back on the times when she was little, when she begged you to show her how to make handmade candles for herself. The two of you rolled simple candles of beeswax to give her teachers. Now, looking at the unity candle holders, you think of the support they give the candles and the support you’ve given her. This is her day, but she’ll always be your little girl.

The usher reaches out to escort you down the aisle, and you and her future husband’s mother gently touch your lit handmade candles’ flames to the larger candle in the center. The unity candle holders catch the tiny flecks of wax dripping slowly from the flames, and as you turn to sit you hear the resounding opening notes of that song you’ve been waiting to hear since the first moment you held your baby girl. You turn to look and see that sweet, once-little face surrounded by a cloud of veil and looking so grown up. You see her looking into the eyes of her future husband and know in that moment that the unity candle signifies much more than the union of two families – it signifies the union of two complete lives.