Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Unity Candles

  • 03-03-2011 10:16pm
    #1
    Heineken Helen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭


    Our priest told us about them and suggested it as part of the ceremony. He said our florist would probably supply them. I've just enquired and they don't. Does anything know anything about them or where's best to get them? Can you just get them from any website or do they have to be religious somehow? :o


Comments

  • #2
    Captain Commie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Captain Commie


    Dont know about how its done in RC, but we simply bought a large church candle for our Unity candle, got it outta dunnes or somewhere like that.


  • #3
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    We got ours on ebay- really nice job with roses on them and our own poem. We also got two smaller candles (you light these first as a sing of being separate individuals and then the main as a sign of unity) Makes a lovely momento of the day too and we got the two smaller ones with our separate surnames on - lovely momento for the mammies.

    http://shop.ebay.ie/?_from=R40&_trksid=m570&_nkw=unity+candles


  • #4
    BC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭BC


    I got mine on ebay too, from these guys:
    http://stores.ebay.ie/In-The-Pink-Candles

    Took about 3 weeks to deliver.

    You can also just buy plain white candles in a shop if you want, they don't have to be religious or have any significance.

    Also, i thought you had to do this as part of the ceremony, I didn't think it was optional!


  • #5
    Heineken Helen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭Heineken Helen


    Ah brilliant, thanks for the help all... wedding's in less than a month so we'd best get cracking! :o


  • #6
    Toots
    Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,978 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    I just went out and bought a plain white pillar candle, it was something like €9, and then had two plain white taper candles for the 'before' ones. We gave them to the florist the week before and she made a flower arrangement with them in it.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Heineken Helen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 636 ✭✭✭Heineken Helen


    Toots* wrote: »
    I just went out and bought a plain white pillar candle, it was something like €9, and then had two plain white taper candles for the 'before' ones. We gave them to the florist the week before and she made a flower arrangement with them in it.

    That sounds like a nice idea!


  • #8
    Toots
    Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,978 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    It looked really well, it just sat on the altar but it was sorta nice to dress the candles up a bit since they were just plain. I actually think the taper candles were given to us by Accord when we did our pre-marriage course. Here's a pic of the flowers

    unitycandles.jpg


Advertisement