Wedding Supplies

How about an Ensemble?  Wedding ensembles are all inclusive sets that feature all the beautiful pieces you need, packaged together in one bundle.  Because accessories are bundled together, ensembles will save you time and money.  They are ideal for one stop shopping and cost less than if you purchased all the items separately!

Ensembles are available in many different styles, colors, and themes.  They include matching items like the wedding guest book, ring bearer pillow, flower girl basket, and unity candle.  Ensembles are a convenient, cost-effective way to make your wedding complete.

If there was ever a time to succumb to pomp and circumstance, it’s at a wedding. Guests have come to expect extravagant decadence from a wedding ceremony, and much of that is because of time-honored traditions. We’re all familiar with the bride tossing her bouquet to a hopeful bridesmaid, symbolizing that it will be her turn to marry next. And of course the bride and groom are usually showered with rice on their way out of the chapel.

But one of the most important traditions – the lighting of the unity candle – takes place during the ceremony proper. Unity candle sets feature three candles, two of which are smaller than the third. The bride and groom each hold the smaller candles and light the larger one to symbolize the new life they are creating as a married couple.

There are a huge number of traditions within a wedding ceremony. In fact, just about every action is indicative of some kind of tradition, and as such, almost everything is filled with symbolism and import. This is particularly true of the lighting of the unity candle. Unity candles are relatively new in the world of weddings, and their use remains most popular in the United States. But this ceremony very clearly represents the joining of two separate entities into one stronger end result.

A unity candle ceremony starts by one representative of each family lighting a tapered candle. These representatives are usually the mother or father of the bride and groom. Then after the formal vows have been exchanged, the bride takes a lit pillar candle and the groom takes his lit pillar candle, and they use these smaller pillar candles to light a larger candle in the middle of the table. Some couples choose to save the unity candle and relight it on their anniversaries.