Christine, Robbie, and their families live in Ireland, but they decided to travel to Glasgow and to hold their wedding outside in the grounds of Mar Hall House, a beautiful spot overlooking the Firth of Clyde. Luckily (for Scotland) the weather was dry and sunny, so 150 guests enjoyed the best of Scottish hospitality.
Robbie and Christine decided to include in their wedding a ceremony called 'Blending of the Sands'. This symbolised the joining of thier lives into one entity In this beautiful ceremony the union of Robbie and Christine was enacted through the pouring of individual containers of sand. The first layer of sand was pure white, representing the spiritual foundation on which Christine and Robert based their individual lives and their relationship together. Their belief in a loving God is the sure and eternal foundation on which their marriage will rest.
We may all be members of Gods family. But we also recognise the significant role that the wider earthly family play in a marriage. Christine and Robbie’s parents will joined in the symbolic sand ritual. While the fathers saying a few words of support while the next layers of sand were poured by the mothers. These layers symbolised the strong family love which nurtured Robbie and Christine over the years as they grew from childhood into adults. These layers of sand represented the joining not just of two individuals, but the coming together of two families.
Finally, Robbie and Christine poured sand representing their own individual lives, their characteristics and their strengths. But these two layers of sand did not remain separate.On their wedding day, Robbie and Christine joined their lives in marriage, and now their lives are intertwined like the grains of sand mixed together. Inseparable.
Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage be a moulding of two individual personalities, bonded together forming one heart, one life. The life that each of your experienced individually, will hereafter be inseparable.
United as one for all your days.
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