CANDLE CEREMONY

Living in a committed relationship changes us. We become more than we were before. We do not cease to be individuals, leading individual lives; but something new is created. It is not that we become one thing and are no longer two people. Rather it is that a new life, a life between us, begins to exist and grow as our relationship grows.

I invite _______ and _______, as representatives of _______'s and _______'s separate lives, to light two flames, from which _______ and _______ will light a common candle as a sign of the new life this union today creates.