The wine sharing ceremony is a
delightful ceremony embracing traditions
that began well before the medieval
period. Then, a bride and groom would
celebrate their pledge to each other by
drinking wine from a single cup ? one
blood, one family and one kin.
The
Wine Ceremony symbolises that the
couple, from this day forward drink from
the same cup. What happens to one
happens to the other, for better or
worse.
I can show you how to include an
alternative ritual using coloured water.
This is most suitable for younger
children.
I can help you add the finishing
touches with some brilliant, original
ideas - just ask!
A sample of the vows at a Wine
Ceremony:
Bride and Groom, This cup is a sign
of your unity. Although you are two
distinct persons, both respecting the
equal dignity of the other, you have
chosen to unite your lives and to seek
you happiness together.
You drink from the same cup to be
reminded that you will share pain &
pleasure, struggle and hope or the years
of life are as a cup of wine poured out
for you to drink. The cup of life
contains within it, the sweet wine of
happiness, joy, hope and delight. The
same cup, at times, holds the bitter
wine of disappointment, sorrow, grief &
despair. Those who drink deeply of life
invites the full range of experiences
into their being.
This cup is symbolic of the pledges
you have to make to one another to share
together the fullness of life. As you
drink from this cup, you acknowledge to
one another that your lives, until this
moment separate, have become one vessel
into which all your sorrows & joys, all
your hopes & fears, all your dreams &
dreads, will be poured, & from which you
will find mutual sustenance. Many days
you will sit at the same table & eat &
drink together.
Drink now, & may the cup of your
lives be sweet full to overflowing.
