Consider new themes for your wedding to give it a fresh and personal look. I’m not a proponent of contrived themes in wedding ceremonies, but having a unifying idea or thread that runs through your ceremony can pull it all together and connect it to you as a couple. While we’re all familiar with holiday themes around Christmas, New Years and even the Fourth of July, consider utilizing some of the natural holidays of the year if your ceremony will take place near one of them.
I’m referring to the Winter and Summer Solstices and the Spring and Fall Equinoxes. Today marks the Spring Equinox – the day when the hours of daylight and darkness are equal. If this was your wedding day, the concepts of balance and equality in your marriage could be used. The idea of maintaining balance within yourself as an individual and as a part of this couple could be meaningful for some.
Summer Solstice ceremonies could invoke the image of the light that your love brings to your life. Or the growth that the sun’s light provides to the natural world, and the growth that your love will experience through marriage.
New themes for weddings around the Fall Equinox could focus on the beauty and colors the Fall season brings, the richness of the harvest of your love, or your confidence in the constancy of the cycles of life and love.
If you opt for a mid-December wedding, you can use the Winter Solstice as a metaphor for the confidence you have in your love as never ending and always changing. Candles in your decor and rituals could be lovely additions to your ceremony.
Whatever your wedding date, especially if you are having an outdoor wedding, consider new themes for your wedding based on the natural calendar and the natural world. There are many parallels to be drawn and ideas you can leverage throughout your ceremony via music, decor, readings and ritual to connect the ideas of love and marriage to the world around us.