Wedding Idea #3: Unity Sand

The laundry room has come to a halt for the moment (we are planning on building some cute shelving!), so I thought I'd at least share with you some other great ideas we had for the wedding.


The first is the unity sand. I wanted to do a unity candle, but because we got married outside, we ran the risk of the candles blowing out! So we chose to do a unity sand set instead. First, we ordered the set from Wedding Star, which is where we got a TON of stuff-like our cake toppers ("C & J"), cake serving set (they engraved them too!), and it is another wedding mag that I lived by for a year.


When we ordered the unity sand, we had many options to personalize it (which is why we loved Wedding Star!). We had it engraved, which was beautiful, and we also ordered sand in our colors with it! So worth the extra $9 or whatever!!

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Here is how we did it:

You can look up all kinds of different ways to do a unity set, but the way we did it was we left it empty until after we did our vows and ring exchange. Then, my now brother-in-law poured the base sand, which was an off-white. Then we exchanged a few lines, and I poured part of mine, then Casey part of his, then part of mine, then part of his, and then we poured ours at the same time. That's to signify that two become one (and the whole time we had "Better Together" by Jack Johnson playing in the background so it wasn't just silent).

Sorry about the poor lighting in these pictures-there is NO overhead lighting in any room in my house besides the kitchen and dining room!

Anyway, these are the 3 bottles for the sand. The small one was for the base, and it had a large "C" on it for Callison. Mine had a "J" and Casey's had a "C."

I love these, because they are heart-shaped! And so is the container that holds the sand:

You can't see the small C on the left, and I apologize again for the crap lighting in my house, but basically it's a small C, then a large C, then a small J. Underneath the letters is 08.06.11, which is our wedding date. Isn't that pretty?? And it came with that stand!


I was just in Michael's the other day and I happened to pass through the wedding isle, and they sell this in there now! It's probably much cheaper than it was on Wedding Star, and you can buy different colors of sand there, too. However, if you want it engraved, (we also had our cake serving set engraved) then I would order it from Wedding Star. It takes a couple of weeks, so don't hesitate!