Weddingbee Blog

We had considered the untraditional tradition I wrote about previously, with bottles of wine, love letters, and a box we would nail shut, but decided we’d rather do that privately than at the wedding. Instead, we decided to do a secular handfasting which I thought was a beautiful representation of the lifelong commitment we were making that day. Mrs. Cherry Pie’s version of this tradition was so tear-jerking, we decided to use it as a guide for ours.

We took each other’s palms, one at a time. Our officiant said a few words about our hands and how they would be the same hands that would be there for the years to come.

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