Pause to take a mental poll. How many weddings have you attended where the bride and bridesmaids walked down the aisle like they were lugging bowling balls, not an artful arrangement of blooms?

The Unity Sand Ceremony, a celebration that's usually two to three minutes in length, is a powerful new way to symbolize the meaningful joining of two lives.

The "Something Old" tradition's designed to whip up a powerful charm for matrimonial fortune. Although the rhyme began in the United Kingdom, the customs it describes have been around for centuries longer. Even here in the twenty-first century, they haven't much changed.

A number of unification ceremonies have joined the humble Unity Candle over the last ten years. Heard of the Water Ceremony? How about the Rose Ceremony?